Strike hiatus prompts US writers to go it alone
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Forget Warner Brothers, Universal and Disney. Say goodnight and good luck to CBS, NBC and Fox. The Hollywood studio model is about to be turned upside down.
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Film and television writers voted  decisively on Tuesday to lift their 100-day-old strike against  major studios and return to work on Wednesday, formally ending  the worst labor clash to hit Hollywood in 20 years.
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Hollywood writers finally returned  to work on Wednesday with a brighter future in new media but  facing uncertainty about whether their 14-week strike will cost  them lucrative TV work.
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Striking Hollywood writers could be  back at work as early as Monday for the first time in three  months if they embrace terms of a tentative contract deal that  union leaders are expected to present them this weekend.
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NEW YORK  Â Politicians beware: Parody is returning. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
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Nearly two months without paychecks. Scores of shuttered shows. Thousands out of work. The Hollywood writers strike suggests a bleak Christmas for many in Tinsel Town.
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With talk shows returning to late night without their writers, is it time to dust off your favorite gags and submit them to the networks?
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With idled entertainment industry workers and Oscar-nominated actors among the interested observers, striking writers and studios are talking again after weeks of bargaining silence
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Hollywood's independent  filmmakers take a strike break starting on Thursday when the  Sundance Film Festival launches its annual showcase of movies  made outside the big studios, now embroiled in a labor dispute  with screenwriters.
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A devastating, three-month walkout that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill ended Tuesday when Hollywood writers voted to lift their union's strike order
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It's the Internet's fault that the writers had to go on strike, so surely the Internet will come through in our moment of need and satisfy our hunger for pre-crafted dialogue. That's only fair, right?
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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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Production on all but two of the  last few scripted prime-time television shows shooting in Los  Angeles ground to a halt on Friday as a crippling strike by  Hollywood writers neared the end of its sixth week, an industry  group said.
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One of Hollywoodâs biggest independent film companies is expected to announce an agreement with striking writers.
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Striking film and television writers on Thursday canceled their own annual awards dinner, saying that no show honoring the best screenplays of 2007 will be held until their labor action has ended.
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Striking Hollywood writers could begin informal talks with studio chiefs as early as next week in an effort to end a two-month walkout that has hobbled the entertainment industry, according to a person familiar with the bargaining strategy of the writers union.
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Hollywood writers are expected to resume talks with the US  film and TV industry after rejecting its last offer.