BREAKING NEWS: WGA Strike is Over!!!

A word from the WGA Presidents…. 
On Tuesday, members of the Writers Guilds East and West voted by a 92.5% margin to lift the restraining order that was invoked on November 5th. The strike is over.
Writing can resume immediately. If you were employed when the strike began, you should plan to report to work on Wednesday. [...]

The Strike is Over!! Hallelujah!!

Barring any kind of completely bizarre and unforeseen incidents over the next few days, the WGA strike is over!! Writers agreed to the tentative deal put forth by the AMPTP and the WGA board and are expected to be back at work on Wednesday morning. Showrunners are back to work tomorrow!!
On Tuesday, WGA [...]

Writers Strike: Tentative Deal Reached, Strike Could End by Monday

Members of WGA-East are in the process of meeting to review the tentative deal put together by the WGA board and the AMPTP. Guild members on the West Coast will be reviewing the same deal tonight during a meeting in Los Angeles. If the both branches of the guild agree to the terms [...]

TV Podcast #19: LOST & IDOL Return Plus Much More

The WGA Strike continues well into the Day 90s so the television landscape is like no winter we’ve seen before. Kath and I are back to talk about Lost’s return as well as the return of American Idol.
It’s TV Podcast #19!
Also on the agenda are Friday Night Lights, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Prison [...]

Is the End of the Writers’ Strike Near?

I’ve been refreshing United Hollywood and Nikke Finke’s site (obsessively) all day in hopes of hearing some news about the end of the WGA strike. Sources say that a deal is thisclose to being announced and some think word could come as soon as Monday (I guess the WGA and AMPTP will be watching the [...]

The Negotiating Table

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER star Josh Radnor stars along with some WGA & SAG buds in this latest WGA strike support video written by THE FAMILY GUY’s Seth MacFarlane. For what it’s worth, I am 100% OVER the strike beard. I want the writers to get a fair deal, I want my [...]

The ‘Adopt A Writer’ Project

GiveMeMyRemote.com is proud to be participating in the Adopt A Writer project - organized by entertainment bloggers in support of the WGA, in association with United Fandom and United Hollywood. Several independent TV blogs have signed on to participate and each will interview a TV writer about their life as a writer—and as a striking [...]