WGA

From The Room: How the Writers' Strike Launched My New Career

February 22, 2008 - ...

From The Room: How to Know When Your TV Comedy Writing Career Is Over

February 15, 2008 - During the strike, we were all equals--those freshly out of college in Daily Show jackets and those of us with orthotics fitted into our walking shoes who had to contend with notes from the network censoring a story as tame as a young girl walking into her parents' bedroom...

Writers suck at math: the WGA strike, by the numbers

February 15, 2008 - With the WGA strike officially over, folks are champing at the bit to assess the gains and losses for both sides. However, with much of the focus understandably on the financial terms of the WGA's new contract, there is a slew of important strike data being overlooked. 23/6...

If They IM'd: The Writers' Guild and the AMPTP

February 12, 2008 - Following a vote by the WGA, the writers' strike is finally over. Who won? Hard to say, other than Nikki Finke, of deadlinehollywooddaily.com, and, of course, America, which got to spend more time with...

The writers' strike ends: the final picket signs

February 11, 2008 - ...

From The Room: Strike Day 89: Some Perspective

February 1, 2008 - The writers strike has been going on for 89 days. To illustrate how long it has been, you'll be amazed by how the world has changed since November 5. When the strike started... A gallon of gasoline was just $3.13 Britney Spears did not speak with an unusual...

From The Room: Pumps Aren't for Picketing and Other Casualties of the Long WGA Strike

January 30, 2008 - With the Writers Guild strike lasting long enough for the seasons to have changed, clothing became an issue. Weather is one of the factors that makes picketing on the East Coast more problematic than it is in LA. Two young writers on the picket line were carping that they're...

23/6 StrikeWatch: our continuing uninformed coverage

January 22, 2008 - 23/6 continues to stand behind its own storied reputation for being your second choice for WGA strike news with this latest round of updates. LATEST: DGA Negotiator Gil Cates Seals Deal By Offering Up Niece Phoebe While all...

WGA strike update: news for the Finke-less

January 21, 2008 - BREAKING: We received a phone call today from a Sony strike captain who says a male comedy writer showed up at the picket lines this morning NOT wearing New Balance sneakers. When the unnamed writer attempted to sign in, a strike captain confronted the man, who explained sheepishly...

23/6 StrikeWatch:
the un-Finke-able

January 18, 2008 - With Nikki Finke's "Deadline Hollywood Daily" on hiatus, where's an entertainment industry insider supposed to go for news of the writers' strike? We'll tell you. Right here is where they're supposed to go, as 23/6 takes over for the LA Weekly colu...

23/6 StrikeWatch: taking over where Nikki Finke left off

January 17, 2008 - With LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke putting her popular Deadline Hollywood Daily blog on hiatus, 23/6 takes over where she left off with our regular, up-to-the-last-few-days-or-so writers' strike coverage. BREAKING: Unnamed Agency Lets Go...

Diurnal Hollywood Countdown: your source for WGA strike news

January 16, 2008 - From the moment the writers' strike began, Nikki Finke's "Deadline Hollywood Daily" emerged as a major source of information about the stalled negotiations and reactions from observers at all levels of the entertainment industry. But on Monday, the LA...

From The Room: Huckabee Claims Confusion about Crossing Picket Line

January 3, 2008 - Though it's been asserted by the WGA that they'd contacted Huckabee's staff prior to his appearance last night with Jay Leno and clarified that the show had no waiver, the GOP candidate responded to charges he'd crossed a picket line by saying he thought the agreement...

Unlike your deadbeat husband, your TiVo is finally going back to work

January 2, 2008 - After two months of a late night blackout due to the Writers Guild strike, several hosts are going back on the air. Finally, you can resume your nightly comatose stare instead of having to actually talk to a loved one or watch real news on "Nightline." But while David Letterman...

From The Room: The Oscars & Golden Globes Without Writers?

December 20, 2007 - With the Writers Guild having refused to provide waivers for The Golden Globes and The Academy Awards, the shows, as they say in Hollywood, "have to go on"...but without writers. Trophies can, of course, be presented off camera, obviating the need for writing, which is, ironically...