You know, being slightly panicked about getting a cat sitter for Xmas, I think the dogwalking alone would be worth the price of rent.

This is what I'm saying!

presumably they'll miss out on DVD sales, itune sales, advertising money from streaming shows and ultimately syndication that only come from scripted shows.

Well, they'll miss out on a season's worth of that revenue. But there's still plenty of product available. Remember NBC's "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you" slogan from a few years back? Ten bucks says that we start seeing stories in EW and such about how catch up on current shows that you stopped watching last season, cult shows from the past 5 years to check out, what to watch on BBCA...

And even if they lose quite a bit of money, its only their entertainment division -- as long as the rest or the corporation has a good year they'll weather the storm nicely.

Can't let the other VPs know that I will miss my budget target!

This is so much more important than most people realize. It's kind of embarrassing to see it up close.

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In a move that could realign Hollywood’s troubled labor front, movie and television directors said Thursday that they were prepared to begin bargaining toward a new master contract with production companies after the New Year’s Day holiday.

The new talks are likely to jolt striking screenwriters, who walked out almost six weeks ago after failing to reach a deal of their own with the producers’ alliance. Members of the Writers Guild of America West and the Writers Guild of America East had lobbied the directors to stay away from the bargaining table until the writers came to terms with the companies.

Kristen, obviously, nothing is hilarious in the context of actual job losses.

I didn't know the site went out in an official email. That's a bit wacky.

In other news, Nikki's blog seems to suggest Joss interrupted the filming of Carson Daly's show the other day with a bunch of other people.

presumably they'll miss out on DVD sales, itune sales, advertising money from streaming shows and ultimately syndication that only come from scripted shows.

They will still be able to sell the shows they already have in their back catalog, as well as saving the cost of developing new shows, going through pilot season, producing new shows, etc. etc. If this goes on I'm sure we'll just see the studios raiding their back catalog to put more shows out on DVD. Or repackaging the shows already out on DVD with a little extra footage or a few more deleted scenes to get the rabid fans to buy them all over again.

Heck, they could re-shoot old scripts with new casts.

(If I were an evil network executive I would SO be doing that. How cool would that be?)

They've actually done that before Trudy, during one of the previous last strikes.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer with Jason Priestly! As Buffy!

The networks might hurt, even if a studio doesn't.