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Pillowpants posted:So the legacy companies want to do deals? Don’t they also run most of the Streaming Services too? Those networks rely on ad revenue and advertisers are not going to pay as much for reruns of shows.
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Which is funny because the streamers are trying to get into the ad revenue game. Hard to sell advertisers on the 40 million eyes Stranger Things will deliver if you can't make more Stranger Things.
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muscles like this! posted:https://twitter.com/slack2thefuture/status/1701110118870659085 Talk about loving up the PR of the moment - kicking out audience members on your first day back while trying to pinky promise you aren't a scab? Way to go Drew! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/drew-barrymore-show-audience-kicked-out-1235587064/
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Genuinely shocked Drew Barrymore would do this. But I don’t think it will impact her. She knows way too many important people and she’s too connected for this to impact her. That’s probably why she doesn’t give a poo poo.
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I thought some of the talk shows went on during the previous writer’s strike, albeit without writers. I recall the hosts doing a lot of improvisation. Is there a reason why talk shows are downing tools this time?
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Vegetable posted:I thought some of the talk shows went on during the previous writer’s strike, albeit without writers. I recall the hosts doing a lot of improvisation. Is there a reason why talk shows are downing tools this time? Well, with the SAG-AFTRA strike, who’s going to show up for A Late Show? Politicians?
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Vegetable posted:I thought some of the talk shows went on during the previous writer’s strike, albeit without writers. I recall the hosts doing a lot of improvisation. Is there a reason why talk shows are downing tools this time? Letterman and Craig Ferguson kept going because their shows were produced directly by Letterman's production company and he agreed to the WGA's terms. Leno, Conan, Colbert and Stewart went on without writers and improv'ed. There was some pushback accusing the networks of forcing the latter group to go back on the air by threatening the jobs of the other crew and staff. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Vegetable posted:I thought some of the talk shows went on during the previous writer’s strike, albeit without writers. I recall the hosts doing a lot of improvisation. Is there a reason why talk shows are downing tools this time? My understanding is that previous writers strike the wording around talk shows was vague but the rules about it have been subsequently tightened. Which is why everyone stopped when the strike happened.
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muscles like this! posted:https://twitter.com/slack2thefuture/status/1701110118870659085 So she's a scab, even if she's doing it to save her crews jobs/pay them?
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Crackbone posted:So she's a scab, even if she's doing it to save her crews jobs/pay them? If anyone is writing any material for her show, they're scabbing. As the thread notes, she probably doesn't care (it's WGA scabbing, not SAG-AFTRA scabbing, and she's not a member of the WGA and likely won't try to be) but anyone else who writes anything may not be in the same position as she is. And yeah that's anything, like writing an intro for someone. I suppose if she can prove that they aren't writing *anything* and are just doing it without any writing whatsoever, it won't matter. And also, likely, this is the kind of thing that is frowned upon while a strike is happening but it would probably be hard to enforce once the strike is done and someone who wrote an intro blurb theoretically tries to join - but that doesn't mean it won't happen.
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Gaz-L posted:Letterman and Craig Ferguson kept going because their shows were produced directly by Letterman's production company and he agreed to the WGA's terms. Leno, Conan, Colbert and Stewart went on without writers and improv'ed. There was some pushback accusing the networks of forcing the latter group to go back on the air by threatening the jobs of the other crew and staff. https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1653188776267595783
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One other thing was that John Oliver, who was still on TDS at the time, was here on a work visa and so would actually be deported if he went on strike. So that put him in a rough position.
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Maxwell Lord posted:One other thing was that John Oliver, who was still on TDS at the time, was here on a work visa and so would actually be deported if he went on strike. So that put him in a rough position. This led to good bits iirc.
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The Talk and Jennifer Hudson Show set to resume during the dual strikes. I guess they figured if Drew Barrymore could do it, they could, too.
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muscles like this! posted:My understanding is that previous writers strike the wording around talk shows was vague but the rules about it have been subsequently tightened. Which is why everyone stopped when the strike happened. https://twitter.com/vanthebrand/status/1701348807571845628?s=46 This tweet tries to understand it and yeah, it sounds like the loophole that allowed it to go on back in 07 no longer exists
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There are few things better than the absolute open contempt Stewart and Conan showed during the strike.
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SilentChaz posted:The Talk and Jennifer Hudson Show set to resume during the dual strikes. While Jennifer isn’t WGA, Talk is, and it’s also CBS. With this + Drew it really sounds like an ultimatum from up top (still shouldn’t do it though) They probably especially want Talk so they can air the reruns late night because until then, all they have is this: https://twitter.com/deadline/status/1701366337300541946?s=46 10 Year old (at best) dated comedy reruns of a syndicated show no one knows about or has seen
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Pillowpants posted:So the legacy companies want to do deals? Don’t they also run most of the Streaming Services too? Netflix loving sucks everyone hates working with netflix. The cheapest dirtiest streamer which like every writer has a horror story for. They blow on the production side of things do, absolutely spend the bare min in terms of anything. However, they have the Canadian industry in a vice grip which sucks.
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cartoons123 posted:While Jennifer isn’t WGA, Talk is, and it’s also CBS. With this + Drew it really sounds like an ultimatum from up top (still shouldn’t do it though) Byron’s production company, Entertainment Studios, is pretty much entirely non-union. Comics Unleashed might be SAG-AFTRA but I don’t think any writers on any of his shows are WGA. I’m not even sure if the production crew are union. But that’s understandable. Byron’s just an independent producer! There’s no way his company could possibly afford to pay union wages— Media Mogul Byron Allen Reportedly Buys Malibu Estate for a Record $100M — oh.
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Fox boss states the strike has to be settled by 10/1 to save the broadcast season. As some one who remembers losing the '94 world series, burn motherfucker burn!
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Fox boss states the strike has to be settled by 10/1 to save the broadcast season. Is the plan still "Starve em out and they'll vote for anything"?
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Fox boss states the strike has to be settled by 10/1 to save the broadcast season. I guess there's no broadcast season then.
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Kinda icky but not outrageous when you think about it I guess. I wouldn’t be surprised if an actor’s metadata ends up becoming personal AI fodder for a disgruntled VFX person. There are serious ethical and security issues with storing biometric data and there’s a reason big tech companies are so gingerly about it.
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I badly want new content but I'm perfectly happy to go without in order to support these strikes; gently caress the studios. I'll make do with burning through my backlog
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fart blood posted:I guess there's no broadcast season then. I was on an animated show when the strike was called. There will be new episodes this fall since we finished them months ago, but we've already lost episodes for 2024.
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How many dumb ideas are there of which Sean Penn is convinced? Is it a countable or uncountable infinity?
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...! posted:I badly want new content but I'm perfectly happy to go without in order to support these strikes; gently caress the studios. I'll make do with burning through my backlog Yeah more than happy to start tracking down old stuff I've wanted to check out like northern exposure or wings.
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Argyle posted:I was on an animated show when the strike was called. There will be new episodes this fall since we finished them months ago, but we've already lost episodes for 2024. On my side of things (working at a company that does translations/subtitling for features), we've already had numerous project delays to the point that I keep looking at my schedule and after a few more weeks... there's just nothing.
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For once, Sean Penn is not being a creep but making a perfectly valid point. Remember what the Beyond Two Souls devs did with Elliot Page's body scans https://www.businessinsider.com/ellen-page-explored-legal-action-against-sony-over-nude-video-game-images-2015-4 Note: this is from back in 2015, before Page transitioned
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Happy Landfill posted:For once, Sean Penn is not being a creep but making a perfectly valid point. Remember what the Beyond Two Souls devs did with Elliot Page's body scans That is loving reprehensible.
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...! posted:I badly want new content but I'm perfectly happy to go without in order to support these strikes; gently caress the studios. I'll make do with burning through my backlog Honestly, I could see this bringing some innovation/rethinking of cable and streaming too if they don't make the broadcast season too.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Honestly, I could see this bringing some innovation/rethinking of cable and streaming too if they don't make the broadcast season too. Charter just made a deal with Disney where cable subscribers get Disney+ and ESPN+ with some packages, so we’re getting there.
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David Cage, head of Quantic Dream, and his ouvre are profoundly grim and creepy. It was absolutely no surprise when the story broke about the misuse of the Page scans because anyone who had paid attention to how his games treat women, sex, and assault knew what he was. He's exactly what you would think of when imaging a producer misusing the rights to an actor's likeness with modern tech.
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“ I guess I'm somewhat optimistic that they will have a deal in October because if it goes much further than that, these studios will just write off the rest of the year and say, see you in January. And then we'll really start to get into a world of hurt because there have already been layoffs, furloughs. The economies of Los Angeles and New York are taking massive hits. The hope is that we can get something done before mid-October. If not - disaster.” Link: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1198675583/differences-within-members-of-striking-groups-are-complicating-the-hollywood-str That does not sound encouraging. 
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fart blood posted:“ I guess I'm somewhat optimistic that they will have a deal in October because if it goes much further than that, these studios will just write off the rest of the year and say, see you in January. And then we'll really start to get into a world of hurt because there have already been layoffs, furloughs. The economies of Los Angeles and New York are taking massive hits. The hope is that we can get something done before mid-October. If not - disaster.”
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Kingtheninja posted:Yeah more than happy to start tracking down old stuff I've wanted to check out like northern exposure or wings. I remember Northern Exposure being delightful. Wings was pretty standard sitcom I think. I have not watched either since they were originally aired.
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