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[wideawake]

Hopefully all this will blow over before they start filming the next seasons of "Burn Notice" and "Psych."

[Tenacious 1]

Too many words for something I don’t care about. See my tagline.

The only interest this poster has is watching a bunch of self-important, ego maniacal, worthless jesters complain about money/attention/credits/job security/etc. I just want to know what they are complaining about (or should I say what injustice has befallen them). I can’t read all the details about that sordid social bubble of vial excrement existence.

What’s the issue?

Thanks,

[edcoil]

The shows are getting worse and the writers want more. I cannot even watch Two Men and a Boy or How I Met your Mother with my 11 year old son - let alone even try Caveman.

TV is limited to History Channel, SiFi, and Food Network.

CEO’s that have staff putting out this junk need to re-evaluate the pay/benefits.

They don’t need to make less but more incentives for better work would be appreciated.

[rollo tomasi]

Quit bashing and insulting your audiences intelligence (Mostly religious folks) and start using more imagination.

The ratings might comeback if you leave collectivist and anti-religious propaganda out of the plot lines.

[bpjam]

How the hell does anybody put hollywood figures into ‘camps’ without one of the camps being called ‘liberal’ or ‘doves’ or ‘queer’? Only ‘hawks’ and ‘conservatives’??

But then, the dude writing the article is named NIKKI. So, that explains a lot.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This is studio PR, same as that put out before and during every contract negotiation.

[bpjam]

Isn’t there a way we can convince the MSM to go on strike? That would be the best way ever to ensure a GOP victory next November. If there were no Washington Press Corp, we would get unfiltered stories filled up mostly with just clips from the candidates themselves and not spin by professional media assassins and campaign workers holding network labeled microphones.

[KarlInOhio]

So many new shows are tanking in the ratings and/or going over budget and/or having production problems (Fox's Back To You - watched it once, liked it, but never bothered to watch it again
Nashville - just not interested
K-VILLE - ditto
CBS' Kid Nation - actively avoided it
Cane - not interested
Viva Laughlin - watched the first two episodes, probably won't bother again
NBC's Journeyman - watched once (part of an ep) and it didn't grab me
Life - not interested
Bionic Woman - have watched it and I want to like it, but I don't know yet.
ABC's Cavemen - not interested, but I could change my mind if I heard anything about it
Big Shots - not interested
Dirty Sexy Money - watched a couple of eps and it seems too much like a serial I don't have time for
Pushing Daisies - funny, interesting concept, very quirky so I could see it as something that will be either loved or hated.

So one show I like, one I hope will get better and a lot of stuff to not bother with.

[ozzymandus]

Everything sucks anyway, except South Park and House, and even House isn’t starting out too great. The Shield hasn’t started yet, and 24 kind of jumped the shark last season, but we’ll see. They have tons of old shows from the 50s and 60s that nobody even remembers anymore, and even the cable networks don’t show, so why don’t they put them back on?

[N. Theknow]

This is like the UAW building Ford Pintos and Chevy Citations and wanting a cut of the trade-in value on AMC Pacers.

[RoseofTexas]

"production problems (Fox's Back To You, Nashville, K-VILLE; CBS' Kid Nation, Cane and Viva Laughlin; NBC's Journeyman, Life and Bionic Woman; ABC's Cavemen, Big Shots, Dirty Sexy Money, and Pushing Daisies.) Even returning hit shows are losing their Nielsen luster (NBC's Heroes, ABC's Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, CBS' CSI:Miami and Cold Case)"...

Clueless and blinded by money these idiots don't get it! One reason I tune in to TV-land...I love Lucy, Andy Griffith show, except MASH, can't stand mash! Good Times is another one I like and the Jeffersons etc...except MASH(puke)!

[IronJack]

You mean people actually get PAID to write the crap that’s on TV???? Paid in American money??? Actual, redeemable currency??? I thought that slop just dribbled out of a failed AI experiment on some kid’s Apple II.

[colorado tanker]

Haven’t watched network prime time since having kids. Almost nothing there suitable for them.

[Goodness]

We might lose the current prime time TV season? Guess I'll cry myself to sleep...
(please God, let this mean no 24 this year...)

[montag813]

YouTube indies aren’t unionized. The Writer’s Guild is not long for this world.

[GOP Poet]

Most Hollywood content is irrelevant. I am more than happy to turn off the t.v. and see them all starve to death. I say this as a writer and a west los angeles homeowner. God and his values are more important than all the money in the world, especially when the money is made with such immoral and life deadening content.

[CPOSharky]

I’d miss “NCIS” and “The Unit” but the writers on strike would go hungry long before would I.

[GOP Jedi]

At the center of debate is how much compensation (if any) writers will get for works sold over the internet (as in, 100 percent of Hollywood’s product in a decade). The studios are proposing to give them little to nothing as residuals, and the writers will bring the industry down with them before they accept that.

There will always be a demand for skilled writers. Studio heads in a world where direct P2P distrubution reigns surpreme? The phrase “buggy whip” comes to mind. Moguls can throw a lot of weight around, but it’s their heads on the chopping block, and it’s time they learned it.

I’m sure it’s fun to poke at the writers here, but bear this in mind: only 90 percent of the writers hate us, but 100 percent of the studio chiefs do. For the sake of the 10 percent trying to improve matters, consider rethinking your position.

[ConservativeMind]

Moonves and Katzenberg are being called “conservatives” for probably the first time, ever...