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Monday, November 19, 2007
November 19, 2007
By Alex Weprin
[Cross Your Fingers] The WGA and AMPTP are coming back to the bargaining table. The two sides will meet for the first time since the strike began November 26, after a relaxing weekend of football and turkey to calm their nerves, hopefully.
[Live From New York, It Was Saturday Night!] SNL held their live show Saturday night at 11:30. Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar, a veritable SNL genius, was in attendance and gave the rundown on each of the skits that were performed.
The proceeds went to the production crews of both shows, all the more important considering that 90% of SNL’s staff was laid off by NBC.
[That is Network News Money] Fox News anchor Shephard Smith just hit it big. Smith signed a new contract with Fox News, pulling in between $7 and $8 million dollars a year. As Bill Carter notes in the New York Times: “That figure may not quite reach Katie Couric’s $15 million level, but it is in the vicinity of the contracts with Brian Williams at NBC and Charles Gibson at ABC — and it is spectacularly lofty for cable television news. Mr. Smith would be making more than anyone at CNN — if reports of $5 million for Anderson Cooper and $6 million for Lou Dobbs are accurate.”
Wow. Congrats Shep.
[Quarterlife (in a) Crisis] Quarterlife, a show rejected by ABC two years ago but resurrected on Myspace, will make its way to broadcast TV. In light of the strike, NBC has picked up the Web series, which had been airing in eight minute installments on MyspaceTV. NBV will repurpose the show into six hour long installments, which will air on the network and stream online at NBC.com
But not all is good, some writers are upset that Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, the creators of the show and WGA members, are providing quality content for a broadcast network.
Posted by BC Crawler on November 19, 2007 | Comments (1)
