http://www.hollyscoop.com/breaking-news/writers-strike-is-over_14608.aspx

Hallelujah, the writer's strike is over! A deal has been struck between the major media companies and the Writers Guild of America to end the writers strike.

Former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said, "It's over. They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general." "A deal has been made, and they'll be back to work very soon," Eisner said, adding, "I know a deal's been made. I know it's over."

The terms of the agreement weren't released, but who cares, as long as it’s over! No more damn reruns and the Oscar's can go on as scheduled, instead of having stupid press conferences that no one watches anyway. Woohoo!

{edit: until it is seen on https://www.wgaeast.org/ or http://www.wga.org let us wait until an official announcement.

Fianlly! How long did the strike last?

~Zack~

Long enough for me to lose count.

Hopefully its a good deal.

Gabe

Cool. Once again the writers have had to show everybody who the real creative force in Hollywood is. I'm looking forward to finding out how much more money writers can expect to make.

I wonder if all those people who cancelled their annual Oscar parties in support of the writers will now get cracking with arranging them?

Quoted from Zack Fianlly! How long did the strike last?

Just over three months.


Sounds like the deal still needs to be voted on, but it looks promising anyway.

Praise Jebus.

Let's hope the new deal was worth the wait.


Matt.

Good news indeed.

So it's not for certin? That sucks...

~Zack~

(*cue epic choir music*)  Halleluhah!!!

Finally, it's over! Now I can get back to watching my favorite shows as normal!

Quoted from Zack So it's not for certin? That sucks...

No, it's not a certainty yet.

My interpretation of union contract negotiations is that the WGA and AMPTP have come to some kind of terms regarding a contract that would be favorable to everyone (hopefully) and at this weekend's meeting the WGA would advise their members to vote in favor of it.

If this is the case and that happens, then the strike would be over.

Does that mean I can start writing then?

Got some bad news. Apparently another hollywood strike may be about to happen. Info here...

http://movies.go.com/moviesproxy/tipster?id=939551

~Zack~

It seems unlikely that it would get to that point, but at least there are still a few more months until that could become a reality.

I waited up until 2:00 last night compulsively checking the email but the deal memo arrived this morning.  The membership meeting is today at 7:00 where the deal is presented and questions are answered.  If the boards of both the WGA-E and WGA-W decide to ratify the deal the strike will be over.

In theory most TV shows will go back into production and I will have a job again.  

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To Our Fellow Members,

We have a tentative deal.

It is an agreement that protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery. It creates formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes the principle that, "When they get paid, we get paid."

Specific terms of the agreement are described in the summary at the following link -
http://mail.citrustudio.com/ct/1843160:2030523191:m:1:92379114:20BFF2AA6AD09D5016D8531C64503D7B-

and will be further discussed at our Saturday membership meetings on both coasts. At those meetings we will also discuss how we will proceed regarding ratification of this agreement and lifting the restraining order that ends the strike. Details of the Los Angeles meeting can be found at

http://mail.citrustudio.com/ct/1843161:2030523191:m:1:92379114:20BFF2AA6AD09D5016D8531C64503D7B.

Less than six months ago, the AMPTP wanted to enact profit-based residuals, defer all Internet compensation in favor of a study, forever eliminate "distributor's gross" valuations, and enforce 39 pages of rollbacks to compensation, pension and health benefits, reacquisition, and separated rights. Today, thanks to three months of physical resolve, determination, and perseverance, we have a contract that includes WGA jurisdiction and separated rights in new media, residuals for Internet reuse, enforcement and auditing tools, expansion of fair market value and distributor's gross language, improvements to other traditional elements of the MBA, and no rollbacks.

Over these three difficult months, we shut down production of nearly all scripted content in TV and film and had a serious impact on the business of our employers in ways they did not expect and were hard pressed to deflect. Nevertheless, an ongoing struggle against seven, multinational media conglomerates, no matter how successful, is exhausting, taking an enormous personal toll on our members and countless others. As such, we believe that continuing to strike now will not bring sufficient gains to outweigh the potential risks and that the time has come to accept this contract and settle the strike.

Much has been achieved, and while this agreement is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve for the countless hours of hard work and sacrifice, our strike has been a success. We activated, engaged, and involved the membership of our Guilds with a solidarity that has never before occurred. We developed a captains system and a communications structure that used the Internet to build bonds within our membership and beyond. We earned the backing of other unions and their members worldwide, the respect of elected leaders and politicians throughout the nation, and the overwhelming support of fans and the general public. Our thanks to all of them, and to the staffs at both Guilds who have worked so long and patiently to help us all.

There is much yet to be done and we intend to use all the techniques and relationships we've developed in this strike to make it happen. We must support our brothers and sisters in SAG who, as their contract expires in less than five months, will be facing many of the same challenges we have just endured. We must further pursue new relationships we have established in Washington and in state and local governments so that we can maintain leverage against the consolidated multinational conglomerates with whom we bargain. We must be vigilant in monitoring the deals that are made in new media so that in the years ahead we can enforce and expand our contract. We must fight to get decent working conditions and benefits for writers of reality TV, animation, and any other genre in which writers do not have a WGA contract.

Most important, however, is to continue to use the new collective power we have generated for our collective benefit. More than ever, now and beyond, we are all in this together.

Best,

Patric M. Verrone
President, WGAW

Michael Winship
President, WGAE

The 2007/2008 Writer's Guild of America Strike is officially over.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980829.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&p=0

;D


Matt.

Alright, back to work everyone...Time to get busy and make THE Daily show funny again...(No offense, Jon)

I like to know the deal that they agreed to.

Gabe