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- BrainInAJar, on 11/06/2007, -4/+152Judging by the list of what's in theaters, I'dve thought they were on strike already
- actorboy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+40Well, if reruns and reality TV are your thing, your wish will likely come true.
- chris9902, on 11/08/2007, -2/+39I'm guessing you work in Starbucks or something.
- blitzer, on 11/06/2007, -0/+36Ron Howard: Well, there is this one thing. It's about a killer-robot driving instructor that travels back in time for some reason.
Studio Executive: I'm listening.
Ron Howard: Okay, Okay, well, you see, this robot, he's got a heart-breaking decision to make about whether his best friend lives...or dies.
Studio Executive: (Shrugging) Aah--
Ron Howard: His best friend's a talking pie!
Studio Executive: Sold! Howard, you've done it again!
(He hands over sacks of money.) - MaynardJK, on 11/06/2007, -1/+37Damn. Now they will probably hire a bunch of script monkeys that just spew derivative, unimaginative, and uninformed crap onto the page. Oh wait... why is this a bad thing again?
- oceanrain, on 11/06/2007, -22/+48On Strike? Good, maybe we can get some new and interesting shows now!
- clothmonkey, on 11/06/2007, -1/+25How about the media moguls cut back on the gold-plated limos? Just a thought.
- dartmanx, on 11/06/2007, -1/+20You mean Digg commenters can become Hollywood writers? Sign me up!
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+16TV rots your brain anyway. You can bet the writers for the nightly news propaganda will be working diligently. That's all that really matters
- LilJimmyNordin, on 11/06/2007, -0/+16That's funny, because when I watch TV shows, all I can say is "this sucks."
- Jambi, on 11/06/2007, -3/+18To be honest, outside of about 3 shows, I don't think there's much on U.S. TV that's even watchable. If I was in the network exec's position, I'd contact overseas content producers about licensing some of their shows to air over here: bring Top Gear to NBC now!
- actorboy, on 11/06/2007, -3/+18Translated: "Writing is an amazing skill and I have no respect for anyone possessing it."
- plbland, on 11/06/2007, -15/+29Heroes
Lost
Dexter
Battlestar Galactica
Family Guy
Simpsons
Desperate Housewives
House
Scrubs
24
Ghost Wisperer
Prison Break
Bionic Women
Pushing Daisies
Ugly Betty
Chuck
Reaper
Southpark
CSI
The Office
....
***** you. - dondara, on 11/06/2007, -7/+21I call *****. Everybody knows there are no writers in Hollywood, just xerox machines churning out the same old boring ***** day after day. Let them strike, nobody will notice.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -2/+15And how many seasons does it take for some ***** to break out of prison?
- Jambi, on 11/06/2007, -0/+13BEGINS to suck?
- smithfly114, on 11/06/2007, -19/+31Good, maybe now there will be something worth watching on TV.
- theshizzler, on 11/06/2007, -0/+123...2...1991
- jwcelement, on 11/06/2007, -0/+11You don't know anything about the strike do you? You should maybe read the article before you post.
- theshizzler, on 11/06/2007, -1/+12People like you are the reason that things get repeat on the front page several times before dying. This has been up in some form or another every day since they voted for it on Thursday.
- RobotBuddha, on 11/06/2007, -0/+11It's not so much writing crap, it's getting ordered to write crap for Joe and Jane sixpack and still managing to sneak in some shred of quality. There's not a lot of guys who can do that.
- centran, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10This is very interesting. The production companies and producers can be a-holes. I am glad someone is standing up to them. The only problem is they might not want to piss them off.
These people can make you millions or they can "hide" money to the point where you practically work for free. - actorboy, on 11/08/2007, -2/+12What kind of clients do you have exactly? Studio execs? Because if the WGA strike makes positive movement, the precedent will greatly benefit actors and directors as they re-negotiate their own contracts.
- NeoSporin, on 11/06/2007, -4/+13Steal ideas from Japan....
So you're happy about the writers strike because you get to watch more Naruto and Pokemon?
Give me a break - sinurgy, on 11/06/2007, -0/+9It's The Simpsons where Homer befriends Ron Howard, Kim Bassinger and Alec Baldwin.
- daizaru, on 11/06/2007, -0/+9It's from the simpsons. Homer wrote a script about a talking pie when he was a friend of Alec Baldwin's.
- rnelsonee, on 11/06/2007, -0/+9Looks like movies aren't really affected. From TFA:
The first casualty of the strike would be late-night talk shows, which are dependent on current events to fuel monologues and other entertainment. Daytime TV, including live talk shows such as "The View" and soap operas, which typically tape about a week's worth of shows in advance, would be next to feel the impact.
The strike would not immediately impact production of movies or prime-time TV programs. Most studios have stockpiled dozens of movie scripts, and TV shows have enough scripts or completed shows in hand to last until early next year. - hoghug, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8Well, allow me to be the first person here to voice support for these guys.
First of all, the reason there are tons of sequels aren't because there aren't good writers/ good scripts/ good ideas. It's because sequels are easy to market, so people go see them and they make money. Period.
Truth is, as indispensable as writers are, they're treated within the system as being about as important as the guy who brings sandwiches to the set. There's an old joke about the dumb blonde who moved to Hollywood and slept with a writer(?!) to help her acting career.
The writers merely want to be included on the profits of online sales and want a fair share of DVD sales profits. To give you an idea of how much profit they make, on the sale of a $20 DVD, the writer gets about ¢.03. They are asking for about ¢.05- ¢.06 For online sales the logic goes: if the studios don't make a profit, the writers won't make any, but if the studios do make a profit, the writers expect to be included in that. Doesn't seem unfair, does it?
Of course there's bad TV, just like there's bad books, magazines and everything else. But there's also great TV like the Daily Show, The Office, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, etc, etc. All written by the people you guys flippantly dismiss and evidently despise.
If all you guys want is more reality TV and gameshows, then be sure to support the studios and not the little guys responsible for the genesis of all the shows and movies you love. - LilJimmyNordin, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8If you think there are no writers on reality shows, then you're part of the problem.
- Makisupa, on 11/06/2007, -1/+9Another retarded comment by a Ron Paul fan. I guess you don't realize that mediation (and ADR in general) consumes much less judicial resources and tax payer money than the classic judicial process. In most cases, the parties pay the expenses and the mediator is usually a retired judge or law professor.
- ThinkBox, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8I dot think pibland is saying these are ALL the greatest shows ever on television, I think he is just saying that these are a collection of good shows that are all on TV right now. In the past I dont think we have had this kind of wide range of selection of great shows at one time.
These span a wide range of genres and everything form an ensemble cast to just some that focus on some main stars.
We have a lot of good shows to watch on TV, more than most other time I can see (from reading through all my Television history books). - theshizzler, on 11/06/2007, -1/+9Simpsons did it.
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/06/2007, -6/+14I'm not so sure anything is positive about this. As Fake Steve jobs put it quite nicely:
"It's either sad or funny, I can't decide. The overpaid spoiled morons who write all the ***** that gets blasted out onto the TV networks want even more money for their piles of *****. What makes it beautiful is that the guys on the other side of the fight are even more overpaid and more moronic and more full of crap than the writers. It's like watching two guys you really despise get into a barfight, and you don't know which one you want to win and ultimately you just hope they both beat the daylights out of each other.
You must admit it's fun watching two groups of untalented dopes fighting over money. I mean look at the Fall 2007 TV schedule. Does anyone really believe that the world will suffer if this pile of absolute ***** all goes on hiatus?"
http://tinyurl.com/yryuom - ZenMojo, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7This is the problem with America. We have people like you defending huge corporations who skim heavily off the top, throw money at pretty faces, and ignore the people that dream up and write the stories, dialogue, and events in the first place.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -2/+9They already have such people
- cpcouvillion, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7Only if they air the shows unedited.
Unfortunately, the studios seem to feel the need to "Americanize" foreign shows by editing or reproducing them and turn them into crap. The real sad part is that it is occasionally successful (The Office), so they think it is a good thing to do.
Although, it would be funny to see Clarkson's reaction when they ask him to cover a Nascar race. - KibibyteBrain, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7Or reality TV. This might be a good time to explore some movies you missed out on, foreign programming, or those book things.
- Nahor, on 11/06/2007, -4/+10Outsource the lot of them.
The majority of stuff on TV (and movies) is regurgitated crap anyway - no big loss. You should really only strike when what you do is hard to replace...
Long live Bollywood! - Mast3rDigg3r, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7lol
- ZenMojo, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7Paying them so they can strike, not to go back to work.
- linzichan, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7What are you talking about? Do you even watch Japanese TV on a regular basis? It's not all anime, you know. American TV is a hell of a lot more sane than Japanese TV. Move out of your mom's basement, weeaboo.
- dartmanx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6Um, why do you think that Galactica just announced a postponement from January until April, and ticked-off fans are downloading Razor off every Bittorent site in existence?
- tljff9, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6Hollywood, where the people are sexy and clever and they always say somethin' funny right before the commercial break.
- jc7012, on 11/06/2007, -4/+10like omfgwtfigo? if like the hillz is cancelled i will be like so pissed
- CrucialMatt, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7The real losers: us.
- skull24, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Now it's time for every new writer to get some fast cash.
- GhostFreeman, on 11/06/2007, -1/+6late night television begins to suck in 3...2...
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5That must not be true, otherwise Evan Almighty would have been a hit.
- Butros, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5Ah Digg, for breaking news, you are the suck...
- peep, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Not if they want to work after the strike ends.
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