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Last Friday the AMPTP released a statement saying:

The AMPTP today unveiled a New Economic Partnership to the WGA, which includes groundbreaking moves in several areas of new media, including streaming, content made for new media and programming delivered over digital broadcast channels.  The entire value of the New Economic Partnership will deliver more than $130 million in additional compensation above and beyond the more than $1.3 billion writers already receive each year.

The WGA then lifted their media blackout and said:

Among the rumors was the assertion that the AMPTP had a groundbreaking proposal that would make this negotiation a “done deal.” In fact, for the first three days of this week, the companies presented in essence their November 4 package with not an iota of movement on any of the issues that matter to writers.

Thursday morning, the first new proposal was finally presented to us. It dealt only with streaming and made-for-Internet jurisdiction, and it amounts to a massive rollback.
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Talks are scheduled to resume on Tuesday. Given the current tone it doesn’t sound like a deal is close. More stuff after the jump…

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I’m sorry, what show is this?

This show – this once amazing, realistic, funny, sad, visceral, captivating show – has turned into a complete and utter disaster. Believe me, it hurts to say it, but it’s true. More after the jump…

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I don’t think that necktie is fitting properly.

Suits! Being my first go-round with Project Runway I wasn’t sure if menswear was something the show has ever tackled. So I called my friend Kim to ask if this is something they’d done before, to which she said, “Um… not sure. I don’t think so though.” Good enough for me. Either way it was to my great enjoyment this week the challenge was not only to make something for a guy, but to make something for a specific guy: Tiki Barber — who only Kevin (the straight one) seemed to think was cool. The use of male models, however, well that had the rest of the group pretty damn excited. More after the jump…

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One-Armed Mermaid That’s Part Unicorn with Bigfoot

Woah, a new episode of 30 Rock! Who knew? Being fairly preoccupied this month I had just assumed that the show ran out of new episodes when The Office dried up the week after the strike started. Needless to say it was a pip to see a fresh episode waiting for me on the DVR Thursday night. That the episode also happened to be laugh-out-loud funny was an added bonus. Funny aside, I did have some problems with the episode which I will detail after the jump…

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Mmmmmmmmm…

My apologies for missing my last post. I’ve been incredibly pre-occupied with the holiday and some other things as of late. The Heroes episode from over a week ago probably ranked as the best of the season, even though that isn’t saying too much. The stories were focused, the acting was great for the most part, the plot moved ahead, and the dialogue was actually pretty good, instead of the usual cliché-ridden stuff they’ve thrown out this year. What made it stand above all the rest though was that it actually had a deeper theme running through it, how the actions of the parents affect the lives of their children. The comparisons and contrasts between the relationships of Noah/Claire and Bob/Elle were the strongest points of the episode. Parkman starting down the dark road to becoming like his dad and Hiro’s story with his father also played on this theme and had something to say about it, without having to unnaturally go into philosophical debate like the scene earlier this year with Noah and Claire at the office supply store. There was finally some real emotional and dramatic build-up and payoff with the characters, and even though you could probably guess where the whole thing was going, it was very easy to actually get wrapped up in it. More after the jump…

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