Summer Glau on strike: [link] (fixed link)

I don't know if anybody has been following the Sarah Connor Chronicles production drama, but the show runner has been blogging online about it, and he's not happy.

I have no idea what they're going to do, Sophia, but from past experience, if they do anything, they'll most likely give store credit rather than a refund.

Yeah, I got credit from them recently for a fuck up they made with Mad Men.

Kevin, what SCC drama? Or is it the scheduling thing?

P-C, doubling the residual from .3% to .6% on home video (which includes DVDs and downloaded content like i-tunes) is firmly on the table.

Ah, I see.

And technically there is no table so all the demands are back. Theoretically if the producers agree to sit back at the table, the writers will resume with their last negotiating demands. But nobody's bound by anything right now.

Got it.

I don't know if anybody has been following the Sarah Connor Chronicles production drama, but the show runner has been blogging online about it, and he's not happy.

Josh Friedman's blog:

AMPTP: Wow, Ms. Prostitute. That was some great sex we just had.
PROSTITUTE: Thanks, AMPTP John. That'll be three hundred dollars.
AMPTP: You're kidding. I'm not paying you.
PROSTITUTE: What?
AMPTP: I paid you three hundred dollars for sex last week. I consider this promotional.

P-C, doubling the residual from .3% to .6% on home video (which includes DVDs and downloaded content like i-tunes) is firmly on the table.

I edited my earlier post. Internet downloads, like i-tunes, are not universally considered home video and I'm not sure if writers get paid for them now or not. I also don't know if writers want them considered home video for a .6% residual, or like streaming video, or a third category with a different residual entirely.

Wolfram, from my understanding, they don't get anything from iTunes downloads right now, and they're asking for 2.5% rather than the 0.6% they're asking for DVD residuals (I believe the AMPTP offered them 0.3% for iTunes downloads, but the WGA refused).

Kevin, what SCC drama? Or is it the scheduling thing?

sumi, Polter-Cow linked to Josh Friedman's blog (he's the show runner), and I think you can get the basics from that. It looks like because he won't, for example, go and edit the show, they're saying they'll go and get other people do everything. On his show. So he's not happy.

(I believe the AMPTP offered them 0.3% for iTunes downloads, but the WGA refused).

I think that's right. But I could see the argument that iTunes downloads differ from streaming media and should be bound by the home video rate and not the airing-on-tv rate. (Or some rate in between that takes into account the negligible production and delivery costs on the downloaded product.)

All residuals are based on wholesale. The studios have no control over retail. When was the last time you bought a DVD at MSRP?