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The writer’s strike is over, but not all shows will return to the screen this season. Some have decided to put off their premiere for another few months, just to get those scripts rolling again.
View this list of schedules to find out which of your favorite series to expect. Some, like Grey’s Anatomy and Samantha Who? are pretty much shoo-ins. But fans of Private Practice and Pushing Daisies will have to wait till next season. Others are in danger of being killed off altogether.
Hurray! The writer’s strike may be ending soon The head honchos of eight major companies — including Fox, Paramount Pictures, The Walt Disney Co., CBS Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., MGM and NBC Universal — has said that the guild has agreed to join informal talks.
Hopefully this issue will be resolved before the Oscars, lest that turn into a stupid press con, too. We miss our red carpets and Worst/Best Dressed lists!
The Writers Guild isn’t giving in to any requests to allow workers to join preparations for the Golden Globe Awards. So who’s going to write the jokes — Letterman?!
Even worse, they aren’t allowing flim clips from the nominated films to be shown. After all, one of the key issues in the strike is that HOllywood doesn’t compensate them when their work is reformatted in a new medium — e.g, websites, DVD’s, international academy awards.
Maybe the Golden Globes hosts will just have to reenact the scenes with sock puppets?
Oh, Conan, we love you!
Though the Writer’s Strike looks like it will drag for several more weeks, Conan O’Brien is guaranteeing a happy holidays for his writers. The show has promised to pay the salaries of his non=-writing production workers (which reach about 80) until the end of November. After that, the talk show host will be paying that out of his own pocket.
O’Brien says that it’s a small way of supporting a staff that have stood by him for many years. In fact, he feels they’re family, and plans to bring them with him when he takes over the Tonight Show in 2009.
But, O’Brien kidded, “I do have some good news about the writers’ strike. If it continues, there will not be a third Deuce Bigalow movie.”