Looming Strike...Again!

[pli1018]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 11:18am

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50754

The Screen Actor's Guild is one step closer to striking. Great!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 11:27am

It will do wonders for more shows on TV going down the toilet.

Oh well.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 6:41pm

No it won't Roxy. Television is covered by AFTRA, who broke with SAG and signed a contract last year after the writer's strike. This strike will effect movies and commercials.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 6:48pm

Updated On: 1/10/09 at 06:48 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 6:52pm

Yeah,, I was about to say the same thing, fromage. Only those shows which are on tape are covered by AFTRA. That means most soap operas, SNL, and maybe other live shows. But you're right, most of tv is film.

Oh, and commercials are SAG.

Updated On: 11/22/08 at 06:52 PM

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 7:01pm

Updated On: 1/10/09 at 07:01 PM

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 7:04pm

Talk shows like ellen, Studio taped sit coms, variety shows etc. There will still be some television production. I doubt very much in this economic environment a strike will be voted for however. Not after the crippling effect the writer's strike had.
Roxy needn't worry there will be new episodes of House of Payne to keep him occupied.

Updated On: 11/22/08 at 07:04 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/22/08 at 8:46pm

It used to be that any show that was shot on film was SAG... and most videotaped shows (soaps, gameshows, and some sitcoms) were AFTRA.

I think that's changed a lot now, with digital recording and cameras.

The SAG/AFTRA line has blurred.

...which is one of the reasons they will probably strike. New media, new technology, new ways of doing business. Plus all the royalties and residuals for them. It's a new frontier.

And the SAG contracts are still in the "dark ages" before all of this happened.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/23/08 at 12:59am

Why does it seem like sports and entertainment professionals are always striking?

Are those industries that incapable of negotiating?