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.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Tamara - Dec 13, 2007 7:47:36 am PST #8986 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Tom Scola - Dec 13, 2007 9:10:53 am PST #8987 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
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.
Kevin - Dec 13, 2007 11:57:44 am PST #8988 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
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.
NoiseDesign - Dec 13, 2007 12:22:26 pm PST #8989 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
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.
Trudy Booth - Dec 13, 2007 12:26:37 pm PST #8990 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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?)
Kevin - Dec 13, 2007 12:51:00 pm PST #8991 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
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.
Ginger - Dec 13, 2007 1:06:21 pm PST #8992 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If this goes on I'm sure we'll just see the studios raiding their back catalog to put more shows out on DVD.
The Inside. The Inside. The Inside.
NoiseDesign - Dec 13, 2007 1:10:39 pm PST #8993 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Yeah. I might finally get Stark Raving Mad on DVD.
Tamara - Dec 13, 2007 1:12:58 pm PST #8994 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
ND, back catalog for TV is pretty played out in my opinion. There just isn't that many high profile money-making ones left.
NoiseDesign - Dec 13, 2007 1:24:38 pm PST #8995 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
I agree that the big ones are played out but the trick is that it is dirt cheap to release something out of the back catalog. Even moderate sales can turn in good money. There are also no new production costs.