"William George Ferguson" <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> [Warning, I'm cross-posting this response to rec.arts.tv]
>
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 16:56:26 -0400, whit0831@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>>Ther are now conflicting re****ts on the launch date as to fall and
>>mid-season. I would prefer mid-season so as to see what good lead-in
>>show for the Dollhouse is established. I personally think the 800 pound
>>gorilla in the room is possiable SAG strike in June which I personally
>>think is going to happen. Wiil see when Fox puts out Fall schedule next
>>week
>
> Any SAG strike won't be until July (the current contract goes throjugh
> June
> 30). They could uite possibly have the principal shooting on all the
> ordered episodes done by July 1. Also, it depends on whether Dollhouse
> has
> a SAG or AFTRA contract, since most the smart money says that AFTRA will
> settle before SAG. If Dollhouse is shooting under an AFTRA contract, a
> SAG
> strike should not stop their shooting.
>
> If AFTRA signs a new contract, and then SAG goes on strike, things will
> get
> complicated, since the majority of SAG actors who work regularly in
> television are also AFTRA members, and the vast majority of AFTRA
memebers
> are also SAG members (there are 120,000 SAG members, in both movies and
> television, and there are 70,000 AFTRA members in television and radio,
> with 44,000 belonging to both unions). How it should work is that
whether
> an individual show is struck will depend on whter it has a SAG contract
or
> an AFTRA contract. One of the reasons that AFTRA broke off its
> negotiating
> partner****p with S?AG was becasue SAG was trying to get shows which had
> AFTRA contracts to switch to SAG contracts (the turf war was heavily
> joined
> on the daytime soaps, which tradtitionally have been AFTRA contracts,
> going
> back to radio).\If SAG strikes, you could see AFTRA aggressivley trying
to
> sign new series that haven't signed contracts yet.\
>
Very interesting. A turf war could really get nasty, since shows being
shot
digitally don't fall clearly within the traditional ambit of either SAG,
which has mainly covered tv shows shot on film (i.e. prime time), and
AFTRA,
which has traditionally covered shows shot on videotape. And I wonder
what
they do with shows like Battlestar Galactica, which shoots on both film
negatives and video.
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