The writers might get off strike!

[BROKEN Productions]

herd it on the news this morning! there signing a new contract!this doesnt effect me at all! well exept the TV shows......

[glmclainmovies]

Bad Ass! More South Park, The Daily Show, And Chuck!

[Zombeast]

Yeah, I heard that shows will be back on in late April. More Dexter!

[mrsiefer23]

finally

[New Spark Films]

This means one thing...

http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/scrubs46.jpg

SCRUBS IS RETURNING!

[cronaldo]

YES! A Scrubs fan! Office anyone?

[Flamingo With A Spoon Productions]

Although I preffer the Brittish Office I've recently started watching the American one and developed a fetish for it :dance:

I don't like The Daily Show though. I think it's like a cheesy, crap version of The Day Today. The Day Today only ever had six episodes (it stopped because people thought it was real even though it is wonderfully weird) but any one of them could beat all The Daily Show's episodes combined.

I don't know what it is about The Daily Show that I hate it's probably just it's cheesy American sitcom feel and laugh track.

[WesScog]

Although I preffer the Brittish Office I've recently started watching the American one and developed a fetish for it :dance:

I don't like The Daily Show though. I think it's like a cheesy, crap version of The Day Today. The Day Today only ever had six episodes (it stopped because people thought it was real even though it is wonderfully weird) but any one of them could beat all The Daily Show's episodes combined.

I don't know what it is about The Daily Show that I hate it's probably just it's cheesy American sitcom feel and laugh track.

It's filmed in front of a live audience, there isn't a laugh track that i'm aware of.

[Flamingo With A Spoon Productions]

Yeah well that gives the impression of a laugh track. I think it works well in certain shows but others it doesn't work at all.

[GhostOfAllie]

SNL <3!!

[Ladri.]

SNL <3!!

At least someone else likes SNL better than that damn mad tv. It's so dumb and nobody realizes it.

[New Spark Films]

YES! A Scrubs fan! Office anyone?

The Office is my other favorite show. Scrubs and the Office are the reason I watch TV.

And while I love the British office, I can relate to the American one more, so it's funnier. Generally British stuff is better, or rather I like it more, but TO ME the Office is an exception.

[GhostOfAllie]

At least someone else likes SNL better than that damn mad tv. It's so dumb and nobody realizes it.

Hecky Yeah.

[etentertainment]

Hell yeah! New Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, Survivorman...man...all my favorite shows.

[cronaldo]

I have to say my first love was the British Office. However once I realized the American Office could write its own stuff after the second season. I grew to love it also. However the British Jim is still King

[delish23]

Yay! This means that my internship will go through. I am interning at Everyman Cinema- Jay Roach's production company. (He directed the Austin Powers movies, Meet the Parents/Faukers etc.) They were worried that there wouldn't be enough for me to do. I start next Wednesday!

I'm also happy that everyone who's been out of work and on the verge of losing their houses and such gets to go back to work.

PS: The Office is awesome. Anyone want to form an alliance?

[cronaldo]

consider it formed. I think our alliance needs a name

[delish23]

I'll leave that up to you.

[Steve Nelson]

I think this strike is just the beginning of the end for Hollywood.

[vega.]

I think it is as well, at least the hollywood as we know it. I think I'd put it "this strike is just the beginning of big changes"

[cronaldo]

well I'd suggest a name with some alliteration, perhaps the, "Office Alliance". You know, something creative. Or maybe something a little more dramatic such as "Office Strong". I'll let you narrow it down.

But what is this about the beginning of the end for Hollywood? I wasn't aware of Hollywood dying out anytime soon. Would you care to elaborate?

[WesScog]

well I'd suggest a name with some alliteration, perhaps the, "Office Alliance". You know, something creative. Or maybe something a little more dramatic such as "Office Strong". I'll let you narrow it down.

But what is this about the beginning of the end for Hollywood? I wasn't aware of Hollywood dying out anytime soon. Would you care to elaborate?

Basically Hollywood is too top-down oriented.

Things are becoming cheaper and easier to do as the years go by, just a decade ago no one thought that digital video would ever be a viable format to release films on, now we have digital video actually surpassing film in potential, with more and more films being shot and released digitally.

Computers are becoming increasingly faster and what you can do with compositing opens up so many doors.

It's not possible to shoot with off the shelf equipment, and using off the shelf software, you can shoot and print an entire feature film for literally a few thousand dollars.

And with things like YouTube and Vimeo and iTunes you can get your stuff open to being downloaded instantly by over a billion people worldwide.

So the fixed costs of doing things DIY are very low, so the profit margins are a lot wider. You can shoot a film for a few thousand dollars, release it on your website, sell ad-space, and make a killing, without printing a single DVD.

For a typical Hollywood film, it's far too regimented to keep the costs in 4-5 digit numbers. You have to pay the Unions, and everyones Unions get's a piece of the pie, you've got to get permits, and cranes, and you have to pay a person to get everyone coffee, and you've got to pay a person whose job is to just tape stuff to the floor so no one trips too it, and they all get set salaries.

And you've got to use these big ass cameras, and you agree to a fixed rate with the film company on your film and developing costs, you pay someone to hold the camera, someone to do lighting, someone to edit it, someone to watch the editor edit.

Things are simply becoming too decentralized, and knowledge for how to do all of these parts yourself too free and open, for such a top-heavy structure to sustain itself.

Hollywood will be forced to change, or in 10 years they'll have Kid's making their own Superhero SFX extravaganza for a few hundred dollars kicking their ass.

An average blockbuster like Spiderman makes about 300-400 million dollars. Costs 200 million to make. At an average 8-10 dollars a ticket price, that's about 30-40 million people seeing it in the United States.

Next New Networks, last years had well over 100 MILLION hits. Compare Spiderman's budget, and the massive marketing campaign that cost MILLIONS of dollars worldwide.

Indy Mogul along is getting ABOUT 20 million hits annually, about as many people are coming and watching Indy Mogul as there are people going to a really big blockbuster film. And we have a very low overhead cost.

It's just we're the future, Hollywood is going to have to become more like us to survive.

[delish23]

The OA

Are you apart of it? Cause I am.

[DeadFishProductions]

finally they'll stop whinging and get back to work...