No more reruns! the strike is over!

[cmurdur]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/23057002
about time.

[Aurone]

Bitchen, I was worried that the 3 recent episodes of House would be all for a while because of the Strike, but it's about time.

[Grendel]

No word on any of this from the writer's guild, yet, just Eisner's assurances.

Whatever the case, the studios' cupboard was already bare. Assuming the language for the deal is done by this weekend, accepted, and everyone's back to work on Monday, it's going to be quite some time before any new product hits the air...

[Revenant]

About time they got something done.

[KING]

That's good news, i'm missing Law & Order.

[Chief Falling Rock]

sweeeeeeeeeeet. I miss 24

[hackerslacker]

woot House and Office!

[Godfatha]

Hopefully this means BSG will have the full 22 episodes to finish it off.

[Grendel]

Sounds like the WGA's on board.
Striking writers reach tentative deal with studios

By Steve Gorman and Dean Goodman Sat Feb 9, 9:18 AM PST

The union representing Hollywood's striking writers said it reached a "tentative deal" with studios and will meet members later on Saturday to discuss ending a three-month walkout that has crippled television production and overshadowed the awards season.

The breakthrough was announced via e-mail to the 10,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), who went on strike for the first time in almost 20 years on November 5 in a dispute centering on compensation for work distributed over the Internet.

"While this agreement is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve for the countless hours of hard work and sacrifice, our strike has been a success," WGA West president Patric Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship said in the memo.

Members will meet in New York at 2 p.m. EST and in Los Angeles at 10 p.m. EST to discuss specific terms, the ratification process and ending the strike, the union added.

The WGA memo said the tentative deal "creates formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes the principle that, 'When they get paid, we get paid."'

Officials from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the bargaining arm of the studios, were not immediately available for comment.

The strike has thrown the U.S. television industry into turmoil, derailed several movie productions and idled thousands of entertainment workers, from actors and directors to hairstylists, set designers and clerks.

The Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. has estimated the strike has cost the region's film and TV industry at least $650 million in wages, with over $1 billion more in lost earnings attributed to the ripple effect on the local economy.

The strike also has overshadowed the entertainment industry's annual awards season, even threatening to spoil the Oscars show later this month. Last month's Golden Globes awards ceremony was canceled after the actors' union said it would refuse to cross the writers' picket line.

The last major strike to hit Hollywood, a walkout by screenwriters in 1988, lasted 22 weeks and delayed the start of that year's fall television season.

[badgonegood]

darn I wanted them to suffer longer

[Grendel]

darn I wanted them to suffer longerWho? The writers?

[Gilly]

Bout time... I can finally eagarly anticipate the rest of Scrubs.

[cmurdur]

Scrubs is gash.

[Officefan]

Ah... is gash bad?

I'm happy. The Office is coming back. That's all I really need.

[pastor_ice43]

Sweet, now we can finally get this season of 24 underway.

[cmurdur]

Ah... is gash bad?

I'm happy. The Office is coming back. That's all I really need.

gash means poo in Britain talk.