Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Official: The Writer's Strike is Over!!!!!!

Yesterday, the The Writers Guild voted to end the strike and a whopping 92.5% agreed to an end. The 100 day strike has come to and end and it left some damage in its wake. The Hollywood & Los Angeles communities were reported to have lost 2 Billion dollars in revenue over the course of the strike and this includes all of those who would work on the production of TV or Movies.

AMPTP released a statement thanking the WGA for coming back to work and stated that the last rounds of negotiations is what pushed the WGA to end the strike. CBS' Leslie Moonves and News Corp.'s Peter Chernin are being credited with the initiation of the informal negotiations that began the conversation again between the WGA and AMPTP in January.

All I can say is THANK THE LORD!!! Now get back in your writers' rooms and turn this shit out. While many shows are still figuring out the next step, Saturday Night Live has confirmed their first new show will be broadcast on February 23rd. No guest has been named. I for one hope it will be Micheal Cera, since he missed out on his chance last November when the strike began. UPDATE: Tina Fey is confirmed to be the host on the Februaty 23rd SNL show, the first new one since November.

THANKS WGA FOR COMING BACK TO WORK AND BRINGING US SOME SANITY AGAIN!

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