NBC is clearly none too pleased about being the WGA's prime target this week, between the pressure on Jay Leno and the apparent implosion of the Golden Globes telecast.
This just in from the Peacock in regards to Leno's monologues on "The Tonight Show":
"NBC shares America's enthusiasm for Jay Leno's return. It is unfortunate that the WGA is contemplating plans to "investigate" Jay's authorship of his Tonight Show monologue. The WGA agreement clearly permits Jay to create and perform his own monologue. The enforcement of strike rules against Jay in these circumstances would violate the Federal labor laws."
i just noticed that variety now has a 'strike blog'. i'm not a writer but coverage of the strike thus far has been so disappointing that most people i know no longer look to variety for 'inside' industry information. it's clearly now a paper more for press releases and announcements. sadly, variety has lost a lot of credibility through this strike.
Posted by: suzanne | January 05, 2008 at 09:24 AM
WGA strike sucks, here's why
Just watch this Video :
http://blip.tv/file/489668
And add to this, that this strike costs 33,000 non-WGA jobs and 80 millions per day to the community.
Posted by: Elmouth | January 05, 2008 at 10:25 AM
That video lost me when in its first moments it made a glaring factual error. It said the strike is all about residuals. It ain't. Coverage of content made for the internet is much more important, for example. And after a while it got so boring I had to turn the Young Earnest Too-Intense Guy's voice off. Eek. AMPTP, you're paying millions to that PR firm for crap like _that_? Ask for a refund, guys, that stuff is weak.
Posted by: Ashley Gable | January 05, 2008 at 12:24 PM
That video lost me when in its first moments it made a glaring factual error. It said the strike is all about residuals. It ain't. Coverage of content made for the internet is much more important, for example. And after a while it got so boring I had to turn the Young Earnest Too-Intense Guy's voice off. Eek. AMPTP, you're paying millions to that PR firm for crap like _that_? Ask for a refund, guys, that stuff is weak.
Posted by: Ashley Gable | January 05, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Wow, what an incredibly narrow-minded and biased video. The chairmaker might not get residuals, but he could license his design to other chairmakers and get 5% per chair sold from them. Likewise if the restaurateur duplicated the chair 100 times without its designer's permission, guess who'd sue who for copyright infringement.
Posted by: Richard | January 06, 2008 at 05:46 AM