9 January, 2008 – 4:31 pm
It’s good to be back in blog-land after the Christmas holidays. Quiet times are over, 2008 is here, and it started off making quite a bit of noise. For those of you who haven’t been following my del.icio.us bookmarks, here is a quick summary of the most important developments I have been tracking:
- No Golden [...]
21 December, 2007 – 5:00 pm
The fabulous “Daily Show“ and “The Colbert Report“ are set to return to the TV screens on 7 January 2008 - but without their writers! This should be interesting: these talkshows live on the topical jokes writers script every day. Though both hosts are WGA members (the WGA disapproves, by the way) and clever, funny guys themselves, it should [...]
11 December, 2007 – 12:56 am
The writer’s strike is still in full blast, and I thought it was time for an update. I will not bore you with re-hashing what others have written already, but point you at some ressources. Read them first, and then read my opinion on this subject further down in this post. Here a nice summary of the [...]
26 November, 2007 – 6:50 pm
So, the WGA has gone back to renegotiate their contracts with the producers yesterday. No word as of yet how that is going. In the meantime, advertisers are getting nervous. I only just mentioned this possibility to a colleague last week: If TV sellers can’t hold their end of the bargain (which is: deliver the target audience they [...]