Update writers strike

Read More. An eleventh-hour deal between producers and a union representing technicians and set workers to avoid a West Coast strike is like something out of a movie, union leadership said. They're tough and united. Neither the union nor AMPTP released exact details of the tentative pact, which must be ratified by union membership. During this period we have agreed to a complete news blackout.

We are grateful for this opportunity to engage in meaningful discussion with industry leaders that we hope will lead to a contract. We ask that all members exercise restraint in their public statements during this critical period. In order to make absolutely clear our commitment to bringing a speedy conclusion to negotiations we have decided to withdraw our proposals on reality and animation. Our organizing efforts to achieve Guild representation in these genres for writers will continue.

You will hear more about this in the next two weeks. Members of the American Federation of Musicians face many of the same issues concerning compensation in new media that we do. Musicians are back on all three late-night shows, but not on Saturday Night Live, where new shows are not being produced.

It got so bad that creator Tim Kring admitted mistakes in an Entertainment Weekly interview. But the writers strike offered Kring and company a chance to rethink and restructure. The series did return to produce 10 more hours to end its run, and, like Heroes , the strike actually gave creator Ronald D. Moore a chance to rethink the planned ending of the show. And she sort of became dedicated to the idea of destroying Galactica and the fleet out of revenge.

And [she and Cavil] got Hera, and then the final confrontation became very personalized between Tigh versus Ellen, and should they forgive. We didn't have a lot more than just what I spun out to you, when the writer's strike hit. It's not epic enough. It's not interesting enough. Moore and his writers ultimately devised a different series finale, featuring the daring rescue of Hera Agathon and the discovery of our prehistoric Earth.

Initial enthusiasm for the series led to a full season order in October , just weeks before a writers strike was declared.