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Archive for May, 2008

May
31

The strangeness surrounding the strike-compromised 2007-08 broadcast season just won’t stop - even at this late date. Case in point: The season-finale of Lost, a…

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May
31
Hollywood Actors - What Now?
Huffington Post, NY -May 8, 2008
At least the WGA still had some leverage: namely, the threat to destroy the Oscars (as it had done to the Globes) and the prospect of joining SAG on strike
Hollywood faces new shutdownThe Australian
Actors' strike update: SAG talks end with no deal, focus now on AFTRAEntertainment Weekly
Hollywood Gives SAG the Brush OffCounterPunch
Variety - Indiantelevision.com
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May
31

CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves said Thursday that the upfront selling process could be slower to complete this year.

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May
31

One more hurdle left, with SAG, but the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has agreed to a tentative deal with Hollywood studios on a new three-year contract. The deal includes fees for content streamed and downloaded online, and preserves actors’ right of consent on the use of their voices and images in online clips, the two said.

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May
31
Monday Nights In 2007-08: ABC Sashayed To The Top
Film.com, WA -May 29, 2008
strategies to stay as the night's pacesetters, while the other two had their signature Monday programming mostly or totally ruined by the WGA strike.

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May
31
"Lost" Season Finale Caps Broadcast's Strangest Year
Huffington Post, NY -May 29, 2008
a victim, like Grey's (and Ugly Betty, which also had its season finale last Thursday), of the scheduling havoc wreaked by the WGA strike.

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May
31

SAG negotiators, including president Alan Rosenberg, were back at it with the studios and networks Thursday, a day after AFTRA reached its tentative deal with the AMPTP.

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May
31

A tentative agreement with Hollywood studios puts more pressure on the Screen Actors Guild to resolve its dispute with producers before its current contract runs out on June 30.

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May
31

ABC has done the first deals of the broadcast primetime upfront, reaching agreements with media agencies Starcom and Zenith Media, according to sources familiar with the situation.

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May
31

The biggest topic on everyone’s mind is the possibility of a SAG strike this summer. The contract expires at the end of June, and anything could happen. Everyone at Secret Agent Man headquarters knows I’m not a big fan of the union.

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