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  TheOysta8 months ago

  Will the strike ever end. At least The Colbert Report and Daily Show are coming back on air.

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  ETproductions8 months ago

  They don't have much choice but to dig in their heels. As things transition to digital distribution, if they are cut out of the rights on their material there, they will soon be a bunch of starving artists.

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  saintetienne8 months ago

  "I do support the writer. they are the creative ones and should get paid for their efforts."

  They DO get paid for their "efforts", dipsquat. They get paid quite a bit. In fact, they're often the highest-paid person on a show. The issue isn't about the writers getting paid. The issue is the writers wanting a percentage of DVD rentals and Internet airings. Sounds pretty greedy to me. If I were the studios, I'd tell them AND the unions to get stuffed.

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  ZiegfeldGirl8 months ago

  Just when you thought awards shows couldn't get any more boring...

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    CaptainLucid8 months ago

    But on the good side it is only supposed to be an hour.

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  ZiegfeldGirl8 months ago

  I have to say though, I wouldn't admit to being a writer for an awards show. The stupid banter is always so phoney and retarded. I hope the writers get everything they are asking for, because they definitely deserve it, but guys, please! Put a teeny bit more effort into the banter! These are world-class actors, if you give them a half-way decent line, they should be able to deliver it at least semi-convincingly.

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  DropkickaLib8 months ago

  At least we are being spared from another awards show.

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    bill29368 months ago

    My thoughts exactly.

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      DropkickaLib8 months ago

      Finally, organized labor is good for something.

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  Harbeas8 months ago

  Oh, are the writers on strike? I support their efforts but it won't affect me one way or the other. I watch so little tv I haven't noticed any difference!

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    CaptainLucid8 months ago

    I don't care, its basketball season and Golden State is back after their best season in over a decade where they made the playoffs and as an 8th seed upset number one Dallas. They are playing run and gun like Phoenix. Or I could listen to actors recite bland jokes with no timing and then hear them go on and on thanking their co workers, the director, the best boy grip, and everyone else I could not care about. Tough decision.

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  jumpmaster8 months ago

  I always get a kick out of people who pay so much attention to actors (i.e. Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, etc.) who spew about things that they know nothing about.

  These people are paid to regurgitate words that someone else wrote. When the writers disappear, these "experts" have nothing to say.

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    saintetienne8 months ago

    "When the writers disappear, these "experts" have nothing to say."

    Agreed, jumpmaster. But be careful about giving the writers too much credit. Most of the writers these days are mediocre hacks at best, and, considering the miniscule amount of talent they exhibit, should be grateful to have the jobs and the payscales that they do, instead of demanding even MORE money.

    Let's face it. It's been a loooong time since we've seen a "Casablanca", an "All About Eve" or an "All in the Family". THOSE were writer-driven pieces of art. Today's shows and movies are merely focus-group tested, mass-marketed drivel.

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      icono18 months ago

      A friend of mine has voiced almost the same line of reasoning about the quality of the current writers for the Hollywood crowd. Also, her argument includes the fact that most contemporary viewers do not have the attention span (she refers to this lack of attention span as cultural ADD or ADHD)and depth of education and therefore reasoning ability of past generations of viewers so the writers have only about 30seconds to get their overly simplified message across to the viewer and hopefully understood because of the reduced attention span and lack of education about how to follow a long and multifaceted plot line.

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        saintetienne8 months ago

        Good post, icono. Your friend sounds like a shrewd, intelligent observer herself. It's too bad there aren't more people like her in the world, instead of the dumbed-down, bratty-acting, ADD-maligned, fast-food gulping, video game-playing, culturally-vacant, witless morons our illustrious liberal Baby Boom generation has ostensibly "raised".

        But that's fodder for another post. In the meantime.... turn off your televisions, people. For God's sake, use this "writer's" strike as an excuse and give it a rest. Find something worthwhile to do with your time.

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          icono18 months ago

          Thanks saint.

          She is shrewd and intelligent and extremely observant of people.

          She, and to a large degree I, also agree with you about the spawn of the baby boomers and etc. What is largely alarming is the fact that the 'boomer's spawn' ideas of 'culture' involves role playing video games, contemporary 'action flicks' and graphic novels.

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  MajJohn8 months ago

  The Globe Awards could have been replaced by a show which showed us paint drying, this would have been more entertaining. And writers? Is it possible that the previous shows had writers? As bad as the shows were you could have gone on w/o them, who'd have noticed any difference?

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