http://gothamist.com/2008/02/03/end_of_wga_stri.phpMultiple news outlets are reporting that the WGA strike could be over with professional writers back to work as early as next week. Unnamed sources are saying that a tentative deal between the guild and Hollywood studios and producers has been reached. At issue was revenue sharing between writers and producers over content distributed over the Internet. Alternative distribution methods, like downloading and web-streaming, were leaving writers out in the cold and on the short end of the stick.]Multiple news outlets are reporting that the WGA strike could be over with professional writers back to work as early as next week. Unnamed sources are saying that a tentative deal between the guild and Hollywood studios and producers has been reached. At issue was revenue sharing between writers and producers over content distributed over the Internet. Alternative distribution methods, like downloading and web-streaming, were leaving writers out in the cold and on the short end of the stick.
I'm hoping that this gets resolved so that 24 season 7 can start as soon as possible. I know they only have 8 episodes done, so they'd need to kick production into overdrive. Hopefully the season could start by March and they could go two hours every week with some weeks having more.
