On Friday, Neilsen published the first tracking results for online television consumption. The result was that Lost was the big winner, with 1.4 million unique viewers in December. Saturday Night Live and Grey’s Anatomy followed. In the case of Lost, that number would be about 5% of an average live broadcast audience. And since it’s [...]
Recently, comedian Jay Black began (or maybe restarted) doing a column called TV 101 over at TVSquad.com. He’s good. His submission today is a tongue-in-cheek yet straight-shootingly correct appeal to network television, that they should change their business model or be made dinosaurs. Skip the first two paragraphs and get to the meat of a [...]
One doesn’t expect much from an awards show. Give me some small feeling of being friends with these people who make movies and TV. Let at least some of the jokes not be lame, maybe have a few entertaining moments, tell me whether my favorites are the favorites of others. I’ll trade you a few [...]
OK, I know this is an entertainment blog, and I shouldn’t be going on about politics. However, seeing as how–in addition to sweeping four states by wide margins, plus taking all the delegates in the U.S. Virgin Islands–he did just win a GRAMMY, I have an excuse.
…he writes something like this post to UnitedHollywood. Dear Writers, I have good news. I have lots of good news. In fact, I have way too much good news. The strike is almost over. A resolution is days away. Weeks. Friday. Valentine’s day. Two weeks exactly from whenever my manager/agent/lawyer told me. Yes, after talking [...]
So muppet geeks now have something to look forward to more than the Dark Crystal sequel. Empire Film Group acquired the rights to a script called Henson, telling the life story of the man himself. Could become one of my favorite movies ever… but the degree of difficulty is darn high. Never heard of Empire [...]
If there is any truth to these rumors, it would be the coolest news since Barack took Iowa.
An interesting graph posted at United Hollywood:
Speaking of valuable insights on the strike coming from other places, the second half of this video is a nicely articulated summary of one of the main issues of the strike, by a writer/producer on October Road.
I have avoided posting much about the Writers’ Strike here because there are many people much more qualified to comment than I. I am not yet a Guild member, and I could never hope to match the sources of information available at United Hollywood, Variety’s Scribe Vibe blog, or even Deadline Hollywood Daily. But if [...]
If we can believe the report from Deadline Hollywood Daily, this weekend United Artists has negotiated a deal with the WGA. This means they are the ONE studio with the ability to hire guild writers and move their movie production forward. Huge advantage. Perhaps the guild’s strategy is seeing payoff. It seems that the AMPTP’s [...]
You’ve probably heard mention that the late-night talk shows are back on the air, despite the writers’ strike. And of course David Letterman’s production company, responsible for his show and Craig Ferguson’s after his, negotiated a separate deal with the union in order to come back with their writers. While it isn’t unanimously welcomed among [...]
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