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• 2/28/10  /
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Actors Unions Agree to Work Together

AFTRA and SAG form a friendly alphabet soup.

By Adam K. Raymond

• 10/2/08  /
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SAG Continues to Inch Toward a Strike

The guild has authorized its national board to proceed with a work stoppage.

By Amos Barshad

• 10/1/08  /
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Bollywood Goes on Strike!

Unions representing actors, dancers, and various technicians have gone on strike in Mumbai, effectively shutting down India's prolific film industry.

By Matthew Perpetua

• 2/13/08  /
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Farewell to Strike News Forever, We Hope

So long to Vulture's least-beloved category.

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• 2/13/08  /
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Too Cold to Picket: Writers' Strike Finally Over!

The strike is over!

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• 2/12/08  /
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So Who Won the Strike?

Depends whom you ask!

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• 2/12/08  /
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Vulture's Poststrike Encyclopedia: When Will My Show Be Back?

Constantly updated reports on which of your favorite shows will return this spring, this fall, in 2009, or (gulp) never.

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• 2/11/08  /
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WGA Announces Tentative Deal; Tina Fey Goes Back to Work

It's true!

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• 2/8/08  /
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Is the Writers' Strike Pretty Much Over?

Yes.

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• 2/5/08  /
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Nobody Get Excited; Writers' Strike Not Quite Over Yet

Despite any excitement over a possible end to the writers' strike soon, Writers Guild and AMPTP insiders say "there's still a possibility this thing could get fucked."

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• 2/4/08  /
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Even If the Strike Is Over, Don't Expect TV to Get Any Better, Warns NBC

Lest anyone get excited over the possible end to the writers' strike, the L.A. Times reminds us today that most of the crap on TV now was greenlighted before strike and it's going to get worse before it gets better.

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• 2/4/08  /
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Is the Writers' Strike Finally Over?

Just as we were finally beginning to accept the reality of a future without scripted television, it seems as though the writers' strike may actually be nearing an end.

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• 1/29/08  /
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WGA Allows Writers to Work on Grammys; Awards Show to Be No Worse Than Usual

This morning brings news that the Writers Guild has allowed an interim deal for the February 10 Grammy Awards ceremony — not only will the WGA not picket the event, they'll also allow scribes to work on the show.

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• 1/25/08  /
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WGA Interim Deals Give Boost to Great TV Shows, Crappy Superhero Movies

Mad Men and Ant-Man, returning to the screen sooner than expected!

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• 1/23/08  /
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WGA Resolution Means Grammys Will Go Ahead As Planned — But There's Good News Too!

The WGA continues to play awards-show hardball, being coy today over whether it will grant a waiver for next month's Oscar ceremony.

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• 1/18/08  /
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Dave Grohl and Beyoncé to Scab It Up at the Grammys

Amid fears that the ongoing writers' strike might prevent next month's Grammy Awards from being anything but the glorious miracle that we're all accustomed to, SAG members Beyoncé and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl have announced they will break with their guild and defy picket lines.

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• 1/18/08  /
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Directors Make Deal; Writers Declare It ‘Neither Reason for Celebration Nor Mourning’

So get your party hats out of storage, but don't put them on yet, is basically what we're saying.

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• 1/17/08  /
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Could a DGA Deal This Week End the Writers' Strike?

But the news isn't all smiley faces on placards! Plus, the true victims of the strike: entertainment journalists.

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• 1/8/08  /
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Golden Globes Ceremony Canceled; NBC to Air Some Nonsense Instead

Owing to the celebrities' refusal to cross picket lines to collect their statues at Sunday night's planned Golden Globes ceremony, NBC, Dick Clark, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have officially called off the event.

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• 1/7/08  /
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Stewart and Colbert Return! But Will They Be Any Good?

Tonight marks the triumphant (?), writerless return of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert after a two-month absence from late night.

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• 1/7/08  /
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Golden Globes Canceled?

If you were one of the ten people upset by this morning's news about the possibility of an untelevised Golden Globe Awards, prepare to be devastated.

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• 1/7/08  /
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Writerless Late Shows Officially Out of Guests

With most good film and TV stars unwilling to cross WGA picket lines to appear on writerless late-night shows, the Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live are finding it increasingly difficult to book decent guests

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• 1/7/08  /
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Golden Globes Will Probably Not Be Televised — Like You Cared Anyway

Over the weekend came news that could potentially disappoint maybe ten people, at most — it's now looking increasingly likely that next Sunday's Golden Globe Awards will be a untelevised event.

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• 1/4/08  /
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Jay Leno: Scabby Scab or the Scabbiest Scab?

Though the newly returned Tonight Show is not allowed to use writers during the ongoing strike, WGA member Jay Leno has been telling monologue jokes he claims to have written himself for the past two nights — but the Writers Guild, like many of us, isn't laughing.

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• 1/4/08  /
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So, How Important Are Writers, Anyway?

Not very!

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