Now that the writer’s strike has ended everyone wants to know when their favorite shows will be back on the air with new episodes. CBS is the first to make a full announcement. I would guess that these dates and the number of episodes are probably a bit tentative for now no matter what the [...]
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“Lost” Revised Season 4 Plan
I reported a few days ago that Matthew Fox was saying 4 to 6 of the 8 remaining planned Lost episodes would get made now that the strike has officially ended (Matthew Fox Says 4 More “Lost� Episodes). Thanks to A Mike Life and the Ausiello Report I can now report what the actual plan [...]
WGA Writer’s Strike Officially Over
The Writers Guild Of America strike lasted exactly 100 days. According to Variety, members of the WGA voted last night to end the strike on its 100th day, finally allowing Hollywood to begin gearing up its production engines once again.
The WGA West president announced the news around shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Writers [...]
Finally: WGA strike officially over
I can’t believe I am able to type these words:
The WGA Strike is over!
The WGA members voted an overwhelming 92.5% to end the strike and get back to work. That was 3,775 yes ballots, while 283 stubbornly wanted to keep it going.
I’m sure most of the guild members were just happy to have a deal [...]
WGA members to vote on Tuesday; Back to work Wednesday?
According to Nikki Finke’s amazing blog on the inner working of Hollywood, she says the deal that has been struck between the WGA and AMTPT has been agreed upon and the WGA leaders have approved it.
Now it’s up to the members to vote this Tuesday, meaning they could all be back to work on Wednesday, [...]
Happy Lost: Season 4 premiere day!
It’s here. Finally. And yes, this blog post may contain spoilers.
Tonight, we get to see what the heck happens to our beloved survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. Who gets rescued? Who stays? Why do they stay? What do these supposed rescuers want?
I have to say, the enhanced version of the Lost: Season 3 finale that [...]
Lost: Michael Emerson interview, TVGuide tidbits
So it’s only two days away folks. That’s it. Lost: Season 4. Wow.
Actually if you think about it, you’ll work today, tomorrow and Thursday, which will make things go by in a flash. Then you have things like smoke breaks, lunch breaks and email breaks.
So it’s more like just a day from now.
Of course, if [...]
It’s guy love…between two guys
The Trousered Ape posted this video in a comment just a bit ago on the Monday Morning Q blog post where they has been a lot of “man love” for Bret Favre and I just HAD to add it to the video section here on A Mike Life.
It’s from the musical episode Scrubs did last [...]
Dexter to premiere on CBS on February 17th
The hit Showtime series Dexter will premiere February 17th on CBS, in light of the lack of new scripted shows thanks to the WGA Strike.
Dexter’s storyline revolves around Dexter Morgan, an employee in the crime lab of the Miami Metropolitan Police Department. The kicker to his situation:
Dexter moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who [...]
George Clooney, Tom Hanks and others trying to end the Writer’s Strike
I haven’t written much about this whole Writer’s Guild of America strike that is really coming close to ruining some great entertainment this year, not to mention the amount of money its costing people who used to have a job and now don’t.
John over at The Movie Blog today reported that not only did the [...]
Number of episodes left for your favorite shows
The Ausiello Report is keeping an updated list of what episode are still left to be shown of your favorite television series. It totally makes me sad that 30 Rock is now at zero, but there are many others as well.
Enjoy the list, or don’t enjoy it…but either way, here is your update on what [...]
Will Scrubs never have a proper finale?
It’s been tossed around a lot during the Writer’s Strike, but it seems like the longer it gets, the more real the thought becomes.
If the strike doesn’t conclude soon, there wont be any more writing done on shows this season and they’ll end up coming back sometime in the fall starting fresh.
Except for Scrubs.
This the [...]
David Letterman shaves off his beard
The David Letterman beard fiasco didn’t last too long, as he had two people come on the show last night to shave off that monstrous thing. Conan O’Brien however still has his beard and there is no word on if he’ll be shaving it or not.
Likely he’d still keep it since his writer’s are still [...]
Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel to appear on each other’s shows
In the wake of David Letterman and Craig Ferguson returning to late night with an agreement already in place with the Writer’s Guild, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel are desperate for ratings, so they are going to appear on each other’s shows as guests.
This late night stuff has been so fascinating to me. First they [...]
Sunday Bites for January 6th
Every week there are a ton of links I find no time to write about, so here they all are in a brief, bulleted format.
WGA signs deal with United Artists
The strike is starting to really make headway as first Dave Letterman and now United Artists have made direct agreements with the WGA. The AMTPT is [...]
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