Some Television Writer-Producers Side With Guild
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Some prominent show runners â the writer-producers who fill multiple roles at the helm of television programs â said they will not perform any duties while the writersâ strike continued.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike
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Television writers wield considerable power over a television show, so much so that it often is not clear where their writing duties end and their producing duties begin.
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"Desperate Housewives"  creator Marc Cherry, "Dreamgirls" writer-director Bill Condon  and 15 others were named on Tuesday to the Writers Guild of  America negotiating team to hammer out a new labor contract  with film and TV producers.
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The Writers Guild of America West has launched a new-media writers caucus to foster job opportunities and union membership for the scribes behind video game and other interactive projects.
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Ahead of a possible strike, the Writers Guild has issued a controversial rule that would require members to submit copies of half-finished scripts to union headquarters.
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Movie and TV directors tentatively agreed to a new contract with production companies, sending a message to striking screenwriters.
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The Writers Guild of America said Thursday that its members will be allowed to work for the Spirit Awards honoring independent film despite uncertainties surrounding other awards shows because of the Hollywood writers strike.
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TV studio executives  might try to nip the potential threat of a writers strike later  this year by tucking away scripts or even shooting extra  episodes of hit dramas and sitcoms.
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The most sensational mystery in daytime may be how soap operas are being written at all, considering that nearly all of their writers are guild members on strike.
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The sponsor of Hollywood's Golden Globe film and television awards said on Wednesday it has begun talks with TV writers aimed at allowing its honors to be broadcast as planned despite the ongoing screenwriters strike.
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The different directions of Foxâs âHouseâ and âPrison Breakâ demonstrate some of the difficulties that television producers face as a successful series begins to age.
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Union leaders for Hollywood  screenwriters have reached a tentative deal on a new three-year  contract with film studios and TV networks, the two sides said  on Wednesday.
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Members of the writersâ guild are meeting in Los Angeles and New York on Saturday to discuss the settlement.
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The Writers Guild is not laughing about Jay Leno's return to NBC's Tonight Show Wednesday night.  "A discussion took place today between Jay Leno and the Writers Guild to clarify to him that writing for The Tonight Show constitutes a violation of the...
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Lights, camera, action  -  members of the Writers Guild of America were planning a return to after voting to end their strike on its 100th day, allowing Hollywood to jump-start stalled production of numerous TV sitcoms and dramas
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Startup studio Overture  Films has signed an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of  America to allow striking writers to work for the company.