Hollywood and New York film and television writers are on strike today after last-minute efforts to negotiate an agreement failed yesterday. A federal mediator had called a meeting between both sides -- the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers -- but those talks ended after East Coast members of the writers union declared they were on strike.
The writers, whose most recent contract expired last week, are striking for the first time in nearly 20 years. One of the key issues is how much writers receive from DVD sales and use of their work on the Internet and in other new media. Late-night talk shows will immediately suffer from a strike, since their monologues reference current events. Perhaps in anticipation of the strike, The Tonight Show and The Daily Show have scheduled reruns for this week.
Primetime TV shows and the movie industry won't be as affected by a strike -- at least in the short term -- since they have scripts in reserve. However, if those scripts run out before the strike ends, many television seasons will be shortened.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment