A letter from the WGA was sent out to its membership yesterday — and in media speak, talk about burying the lead. Four paragraphs into the letter, there are three very important sentences: "For more than a month we have been urging the media conglomerates to return to the table and bargain in good faith. Now that negotiations with the DGA are finished, the AMPTP has reached out to us to begin informal talks. We are committed to moving the process forward to achieve the best contract possible."
It’s unclear which side made the concession — but it could mean that we are one step closer to seeing Tina Fey order meatball sandwiches with extra bread again. But be patient: It could be a couple more weeks at least before the writers have a chance to study the tentative DGA deal and decide whether they can abide by similar terms.
“The WGA refuses to take issues including jurisdiction over reality TV writers off the table in advance, and the producers refuse to negotiate until they do.” This was from another post on EW about what is holding up the talks and I think the most relevant one. The Producers know that they do have alternatives to scripted shows and the WGA does not like that. If individual reality writers wanted to walk off their jobs they could, after all.
Okay, at first I supported the writers, I thought, yeah give them more money, they do hard work. Now Its a disgrace and their just being greedy. Take a deal and stop ruining the face of television!!
How is it a disgrace? The writers are striking-without pay, by the way-to get fair compensation for their work. Would you call selling your house for lower than its value “greedy?” Or a “disgrace?” Who writes the television that you enjoy? It’s not the producers.
Television and movies have been ruined for many years now, so I don’t believe there anything worth saving anymore. Let them stay on strike! I could care less!
If you read the article about a panel at Sundance, you’ll note that the writers were being called producers at the reality shows. When they walked off, they were fired.
I think they, the writers, should stay on stike until they’re blue in the face. I tired of all the bad “reality tv shows, game shows, & whatever chap” they try to shove in our (the viewer’s) faces. I haven’t seen hardly any good shows since the 50′s & 60′s. I’m going back to reading good books, PBS, & listening to NPR.
I suspect that the producers and writers are working themselves into a position best described as “who cares?” People are finding alternatives to current TV shows. For me, there’s about 50 years of old TV shows and movies I never got around to renting to keep me entertained.
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