It looks like the actors are going on strike
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This only accentuates what a crappy deal the writers took. You know the studios are offering the actors the same thing, and the actors want no part of it.
Actually, no. The studios aren't offering a deal at all comparable to those signed by the writers and directors; SAG actually registered this complaint when the studios severed talks (the actors union offered to negotiate around the clock to avoid a strike, but the AMPTP walked away).
Great. Another wave of shitty reality TV. Have these Hollywood people no understanding of the consequences of their actions? Oprah making people donate to charities? Gah!
No they seem to be intent on killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. We've seen for the most part, ratings are down on many shows, post-strike. I can't imagine what another screwed up TV season will do for the ratings.
I need only look at myself to see how it's affected a self-proclaimed "tv-aholic." I used to be pretty much "glued to the tube" almost every week night. Now I watch on Monday night pretty religiously, and again on Thursday, but the rest of the week, the only reason I have the TV on is to play video games or watch a DVD.
I need only look at myself to see how it's affected a self-proclaimed "tv-aholic." I used to be pretty much "glued to the tube" almost every week night. Now I watch on Monday night pretty religiously, and again on Thursday, but the rest of the week, the only reason I have the TV on is to play video games or watch a DVD.
AICN's "Strike: Round 2" headline is premature and sensationalistic. The actual news doesn't say a strike is happening, just that talks have been suspended. The New York Times offers a less dire appraisal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/b...bd&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
So the SAG is not on the verge of striking, not just yet. The guild's director is saying outright that he still wants to negotiate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/b...bd&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
So the SAG is not on the verge of striking, not just yet. The guild's director is saying outright that he still wants to negotiate.
Oh for the love. When I saw the thread title I just saw 2009 films being very limited not to mention the TV slate. I'm more concerned with movies though since I only watch The Office and LOST with any regularity.
I hope we can avert this and that SAG and the studios have learned lessons from the fall/winter strike.
I hope we can avert this and that SAG and the studios have learned lessons from the fall/winter strike.
Not much different from their usual "reporting," then...
I hope the AMPTP comes to its senses. The entertainment industry would be crippled by another strike - and while I feel no sympathy for studio executives, I do very much feel for those on the lower rungs of the moviemaking ladder who will suffer the most from another strike (production crew members, staff, etc).
Oh well...watching Roswell and Veronica Mars on DVD got me through the last strike. Watching Smallville on DVD will get me through this one.
I'm not sure the studios would risk another strike. If things go down to the wire, they'll have to cave in. The studios could survive without the writers for a while - they write in advance, have old scripts laying around to use if needed, or could hire scab writers to fill-in and keep shows running. You can't replace actors! There'd be a much more immediate change going on... movies currently filming would suddenly shut down because the actors are on the picket lines. Studios would NOT like that.
Oh, I think they're very well aware, or the whole business would have been settled, quietly and without fuss, a long time ago. The primary value of a strike (or the threat of one) in this day and age is media coverage; the risk involved is that it can cut both ways.
Aw, damn. You mean people might have to find something else to do, rather than watch the Boob Tube?
You have a short memory, or else you were living in a cave without wi-fi all winter. Those strategies for "surviving without the writers" either didn't occur or didn't prevent the studios from having to shut down production once they ran out of scripts. This is why Heroes had an 11-episode season, why Pushing Daisies and The Sarah Connor Chronicles had 9-episode seasons, why the networks had to scuttle pilot development season, and why the major studios have a big gap in their release schedule for summer '09.
Also, they could "replace" union actors the same way they "replaced" union writers: with "reality" programming. Not only are the writers for "unscripted" shows non-union, but so are the on-camera performers.
And many American movie and TV viewers would have just said "Fuck You" to a bunch of overpaid depressed ego-maniacs.
I think if the SAG strikes they won't be able to get as much support as the writers did from the public. It's not like they are underpaid. Most actors that are part of the main cast from a show make at least 20,000 per episode don't they? Actors from movies get even more since they get millions.
