On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:19:18 -0500, Abby Lockhart <Send to newsgroup>
wrote:
>>Voice-overs are something actors will do if they can get them, whether
or
>>not they have a steady gig. Doing two voice-overs so shortly after GG
>>ended doesn't indicate that LG is pissed at anyone (Ooh, I'm so mad at
you
>>I'm going to go out and make money),
>No it doesn't mean she is pissed at (fill in the blank) actor. It
>means she has this nasty habbit of liking to eat and have a
>roof over her head.
>
>The actor has to pay the mortgage while ASP works out her
>future plans.
As I said, it's the sort of thing an actor like Graham would do even if GG
hadn't ended (she did a voice-over before GG ended, as well as after).
>
>
>>or that she more prescient than others
>>about the WGA strike (and exactly how prescient did anyone in the
industry
>>have to be last spring to see it coming). It just indicates that her
agent
>>managed to line up some voice-work for her. It's the sort of work she
>>could do even if GG continued this season.
>When is the WGA strike?
It started in mid-November. At this point, most the scripts completed
enough to be shot have been shot, and most prime time scripted series that
were on the air this fall have shown all their episodes, and won't have
more until some time after the strike is settled. There are other
scripted
series scheduled to start in January and later, but they have also been
impacted, for example, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had a 13
episode order, but only eight were shot before they had to shut down
because of the strike. The show 24 has been bumped completely from the
schedule by Fox because there aren't enough episodes shot to make it
worthwhile to run it until they can make more episodes.
>Are the writers and the studios even talking now? I thought
>I heard they weren't even talking.
Depends on which day it is. They talk, they get in high umbrage and point
fingers, they talk some more, they get in high umbrage and point fingers
some more, they talk some more...
Basically the sticking point is residual pay for alternative transmissions
(internet streaming, internet downloads, ipods, etc.) The writers feel
they really got screwed in the last deal over video (VHS and DVD)
residuals, and want to make sure it doesn't happen again. The studios
(when you see the word 'Producer' in the articles, like American Motion
Picture & Television Producers, it means the studios; the tv people we
normally call producers are also writers and are out on the picket lines
with the rest of the writers) want to make sure that it does happen again,
and went in to this on the stance that either the WGA would cave, or they
wouldn't get a deal. There are other issues involved, but realistically,
they aren't even going to talk about those until at least an agreement in
principle is reached on the internet residual thing.
--
"Oh Buffy, you really do need to have
every square inch of your ass kicked."
- Willow Rosenberg
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