Writers Drop Demand and a Picket Plan
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Striking writers dropped their demand for extended jurisdiction over reality and animation work and said they wonât picket the Grammy Awards telecast.
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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 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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The Golden Globes and NBC were on the verge Monday of scrapping the traditional show format, which would be picketed by striking writers, in favor of a news-conference approach, a person close to the awards broadcast said Monday.
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The announcement came in response to the threat of pickets from the Writers Guild of America.
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Some fear a less lucrative future for writers as studios turn to alternatives.
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Plans by the boss of a Birmingham theatre company to take on a play that has outraged Sikhs are dropped.
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Viewership drops, and networks aren't able to deliver on advertisers' expectations. But will the strike be settled soon?
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Striking Hollywood writers forced TV studios to halt work on at least seven prime-time sitcoms by Wednesday as the effects of their 3-day-old walkout grew more swiftly than many in the industry had predicted.
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Arts & entertainment: Screenwriters' strike ends after union members vote to call off their industrial action
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The 12-week-old Hollywood writers  strike is taking a heavy toll on prime-time viewership with  television production largely stopped and the major networks  airing more repeats, game shows and reality shows.
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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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Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner  Inc, has told about 1,000 television and film production  workers that an unspecified number of layoffs will soon be  announced due to Hollywood's screenwriters strike.
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As Hollywood's striking scribes ventured out to their picket lines over the last two months, it's been plain to see Â female writers are outnumbered by their male colleagues.
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The number of laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits declined last week, providing a slight break from a recent rise in layoffs.
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LOS ANGELES  - A day before Writers Guild of America members vote on whether to end their three-month strike, the broadcast networks on Monday began firming up their production plans.
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Gloomy weather and an increasingly  dreary economic climate did not dampen the resolve of picketing  screenwriters, encouraged by the renewal of talks between their  union and studio executives on Wednesday.