The writers' strike
Nov. 9th, 2007 07:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So why is this news important? Because now both sides in this writers vs producers fight are further apart than they have ever been, and that’s saying a lot. Both sides believe they have fresh and ample reasons not to go back into negotiations anytime soon. And by soon a worst case scenario of months and months and months.
If this means Pushing Daisies dies an early death, I will be pissed. (Okay, okay, I know that's about the least of the problems that this strike can cause. I would not, for example, want to be a production assistant, or a writer's assistant, or even part of the service industry which caters to production companies right now, because I'd be out of a job.)
(And for the record, while there are issues involved with this that I'm sure I don't know nearly enough about and that might affect my opinion, just looking at the WGA's demand for doubling their DVD and new media residuals [from what, four cents to all of eight cents?], I can't help but feel they are more than justified in their demand and their action.)
So why is this news important? Because now both sides in this writers vs producers fight are further apart than they have ever been, and that’s saying a lot. Both sides believe they have fresh and ample reasons not to go back into negotiations anytime soon. And by soon a worst case scenario of months and months and months.
If this means Pushing Daisies dies an early death, I will be pissed. (Okay, okay, I know that's about the least of the problems that this strike can cause. I would not, for example, want to be a production assistant, or a writer's assistant, or even part of the service industry which caters to production companies right now, because I'd be out of a job.)
(And for the record, while there are issues involved with this that I'm sure I don't know nearly enough about and that might affect my opinion, just looking at the WGA's demand for doubling their DVD and new media residuals [from what, four cents to all of eight cents?], I can't help but feel they are more than justified in their demand and their action.)
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Date: 2007-11-10 04:15 am (UTC)I know! I may be biased, but it strikes me that the writer is the most important person involved in the production of any episode of scripted television. Begrudging them eight cents from the two buck they earn from each episode sold on iTunes? Seriously?
I wouldn't miss most things, but Pushing Daisies...please, let us keep that.
That is the only show I care about at the moment. (At least until BSG comes back in April.) They can can everything else, just keep that one. (Unfortunately, I hear that they only had a final draft of the ninth episode done before the strike. That leaves...four they haven't shown. I'm not terribly optimistic.)