Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <You mean *I* can't get a part-time job as a comedy writer? > I'm still waiting for your sit-com, entitled 'Cold Dead Fish'
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 If you don't like a particular show, you do have the option of just not watching it.<< I did watch 1 season, didn't like it and won't watch it again, although I watch CBS during football season and get 30 or 40 promo's shoved down my throat a game, and if the promo's aren't funny then how in the hell is the show going to be funny. I mean really, how long can they get away with Barney using the same joke over and over again
Originally Posted By JeffG You watched an entire season of a show you didn't like? Why didn't you quit after 1 or 2 episodes? -Jeff
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 My wife seemed to enjoy it, until she too got tired of the same jokes and plots. But to each their own, some people seem to enjoy HIMYM, and more power to them, just keep the promo's away from my sporting events please..
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: What difference does this writers strike mean to people who won't be able to afford one of those new fangled things all you ducklings call a High Def TV next year? I mean, some of them won't even be able to afford those recorder boxes, either. That means fewer people to watch TV! ORGOCH: Yeah, we just got a thing in the mail the other day, here in Morva, tellin' us our crystal balls won't be workin' right, neither, less'n they gits an 'upgrade' a some kind. So ya see--even in the Land a Prydain we's got bitten by the 'High Def' bug!!!
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Yeah, we just got a thing in the mail the other day, here in Morva, tellin' us our crystal balls won't be workin' right, neither, less'n they gits an 'upgrade' a some kind.<< Witches - if your crystal balls are hooked up to cable or satellite, they'll be fine. If you're using a regular TV antenna, get ye to the following website: https://www.dtv2009.gov/ and sign up for your $40 coupons from the government, which you can use to buy the converter box you'll need to keep getting your ... uh, what is it crystal balls get again? The boxes are expected to be around $50, so it won't be much of a hardship after the coupons. Sign up quick ... they're predicting that they're going to run out of coupons soon. Back on topic ... Do you think they'll settle **before** SAG's contract expires? Mighty unsportsmanlike of them, if so.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Well, heck!! Our balls ain't hooked up ta NOTHIN'!! An' we don't want no chip implants, neither!! Fer over a hundred years we's managed ta git good reception by just usin' simple incantations!! I just don't go fer none a this modern horse pucky!! Give me the good ol' days when ev'rybody already knew the definition a 'high'!!
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Fer over a hundred years we's managed ta git good reception by just usin' simple incantations!!<< Sorry. You'll have to use digital incantations after February 17, 2009. The simple ones won't work anymore.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>Actually can we ask that the writers of certain shows remain on strike forever, like the writers for "How i met your mother"<<< Yeah, bland, same-old-same-old dumbed down junk. But a couple of friends of mine (on the acting side) would be out of work were it to be cancelled, so I guess that show serves a purpose. Not my taste. I like fresh.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Little Birdie told me tonight that the talks have bogged down again. The hoped-for announcement is NOT coming this week. SAG has complicated events as well. So that's not helping. The whole thing's getting rather messy.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 I am so hoping the SAG folds because of this, they are being more greedy than the Industry IMO.
Originally Posted By seanyoda BOT, it appears that Nikke Finke has heard different news -- <a href="http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/advisory-still-felled-by-flu/" target="_blank">http://www.deadlinehollywoodda ily.com/advisory-still-felled-by-flu/</a> << A "very productive day," I'm told, so good that one of my sources now says he's "very optimistic" about a settlement soon. >>
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror ^^^Yeah, but that's the news I was getting on MONDAY. I wonder if Nikki was working off older news. Because the new "bogging down" was literally a Thursday night thing. I hope Nikki's right. I'd really like to be shooting some stuff later this year.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Let me clarify... I thought I'd posted it here, but it was on another board. On this past Monday night, a well-placed little birdy told me that talks were going well behind the scenes. This is from the Producers' Perspective, but this is one of the negotiators and he's a good, reasonable guy. Talks took a hit again Thursday, apparently, and things were not looking up. So I don't know where Nikki's info comes from (I admit it's been good most of the time) but it feels a few days late. Maybe because of the illness. Anyway, I do hope I'm wrong. I didn't ask my source details of why things went south.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut lets hope we get a flood of non union writes hired and we could actually get some much better entertainment on TV. Then the striking writers would actually have to write good stuff to get a job instead of just falling back on some useless union.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>lets hope we get a flood of non union writes hired and we could actually get some much better entertainment on TV. Then the striking writers would actually have to write good stuff to get a job instead of just falling back on some useless union.<<< Do you HAVE an education?
Originally Posted By Spooky Ghost ^^^ "They may offer you lots of cheap thrills, but whatever they offer you don't feed the TROLLS"
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 So someone who disagrees with your opinion is a troll now? You got to love it...
Originally Posted By peeaanuut William: go read the beginning of the thread. Because I had a difference of opinion, I was berated and trashed by the few that think they own the rights to the opinion on this subject. They obviously do not know how to accept others thoughts or opinions. Exactly the reason they are on strike. They figure if they throw a fit they will get what they want, no matter how ridiculous it is. They just need to grow up.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 I agree nuut, which is why I think it's hilarious they are calling you a troll for having a differing opinion. Hope the writer's stay on strike for a long long time with that sort of attitude.
