WGA strike
CBS Announces Show Return Dates
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
