TV pwning me again. Sigh.

[proggrrl]

Can I take a break this morning to say that ALL my TV is pwning me right now.

I'm talking last week's 30 ROCK, GREY'S ANATOMY, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. This past weekend's TORCHWOOD (and really, all the eps for the past month); a profound (and profoundly BI) show. The season finales of CALIFORNICATION and TELL ME YOU LOVE ME.

BSG: RAZOR. You know how I feel.

And most especially this and last week's HEROES. Wow.

Almost totally makes up for complete abscence of DAILY SHOW, COLBERT REPORT...and the news that 30 ROCK has shut down, HEROES is probably ending for the season in 3 weeks...and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA season 4 is going dark this week till further notice.

*STAND STRONG WRITERS!*

Meanwhile, I am collecting a bunch of things for us to do if everything completely shuts down for months and months. Most of it will be movie-related. We're not there yet. Hopefully the Hollywood agents will broker a deal before things get super duper ugly.

How's everyone doing? Work pwnd ME last night, so no RAZOR screening for me...did anyone go?

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[brokenmnemonic.livejournal.com]

Did you hear that NBC has started ratchetting up the blackmail stakes, by firing all the non-writing staff on the Office and citing the strike as the reason, and threatening Jay Leno with the sacking of all his non-writing people unless he crosses the picket line?

I love corporate America. Just when I think I've run out of reasons to consider a career in constructive firebombing, they provide me with inspiration ;)

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

Yes I did hear about all that you've mentioned.

Also just heard that the (NY-based) soap opera writers are beginning to cross picket lines to keep working "someone" is starting rumors about writers crossing picket lines, that ARE NOT TRUE...and other blacklisting rumors as suggested on Sitrep today.

Yet I am pretty clear-eyed that these guys should hold firm and beat Big Media on this. The problem is that Big Media isn't going to starve after 5 months of this shit.

I have a hard time lambasting corporate media these days, since so much of the TV/film I consume is funded solely by them (or at least distributed by them). But the moguls are so frakking wrong on this issue, it just hurts.

I hope Marc Andreessen turns out to be right about the engame of all this drama. *dreams of a better day*

[brokenmnemonic.livejournal.com]

I'd heard there were conflicting stories coming out, but it sounds like the dirty tricks campaign is starting up in full swing.

Big Media is always going to have the resources to starve these guys out, and I think those who are saying that the Studios are determined to break the WGA as a lesson to the SAG and other guilds are probably right. It doesn't help that any fan backlash will take a long time to arrive, and quite posisbly be misguided when it happens.

Marc Andreessen's piece was fascinating, thank you for linking that - what he's talking about is already starting to happen. Sanctuary is a perfect example of it - and frankly, I think it can only be good for us as consumers. The problem is, Big Media is very rich, very powerful and very... well, very akin to the Mafia. They're going to do everything they can to make sure that whatever happens, they control it.