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Programming Note

Photo by genewolf. In solidarity with my fellow scribes in the screenwriters’ guild, I am staging a job action effective Monday. I can no longer ignore the role that my employer, Time Warner, plays in the exploitation of creative labor and, hence, to prove to them that they are nothing without content providers, I am [...]

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Even More Strike Talk + My Annoying Voice = Entertainment!

Because you’re not at all sick of me going on and on about the writers’ strike, you can catch me doing so further with time.com Josh Tyrangiel, in this week’s time.com entertainment podcast. At least I’m pretty sure I talked about the strike. I can’t really bring myself to listen to it.

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30 Rock Watch: I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire…

NBC Tina Fey is probably doing just fine without our pity. But you gotta feel a little sorry for her, anyway. Even as the strike is about to shut down 30 Rock, her show is on a legendary tear: first the Emmy, then a string of great second season episodes leading to Alec Baldwin’s instant-Emmy [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Strike Watch Edition! Also, Show Running on Empty

Lost show runner Damon Lindelof–who knows a thing or two about shows that people watch on the Internet–pleads the WGA’s case with Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry. My column in this week’s print TIME is, shockingly, about the screenwriters’ strike. It’s largely a greatest-hits of subjects I’ve blogged about here, with the emphasis on how [...]

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The Morning After: No More S'Mores!

Not a fantastic Office last night, but you know what? Thanks to the strike it’s the next to last one we’ll get for God knows how long, so for the moment I’m inclined to be grateful anyway. Michael’s going Survivorman in what appeared to be Pennsylvania’s only sequoia redwood forest was amusing enough, but this [...]