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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I tend to by sympathetic towards the writers. In part because I actually know quite a few of them, and in part because I secretly aspire to be one of them.
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I know what you mean. From the little that I've seen (my firm has an entertainment group, and tangentially I've learned a little bit about how being a writer in Hollywood works, though certainly I'm no str8) it sounds like it can be a real struggle to make it as a writer, though.
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I have a friend that works for a casting agency in New York. She said that the double strikes was just killing the agency, and they're all extremely relieved that the stage hand strike is over. My boyfriend works in production in LA, and he says a lot of the Christmas parties that the studios and other industry companies usually throw have been cancelled or sized down considerably this year. He says that are a lot more technical people than usual looking for productions to join right now.
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AoN, the aforementioned Rob Long has two theories about when the strike will end. His head tells him June, for reasons that I'm not recalling at the moment. His gut tells him January, because that's when pilot season starts. If the networks miss pilot season, then they'll have nothing to sell to advertisers in May, when traditionally the networks auction off something like 40-70% of their advertising inventory for the new season, for which they get paid upfront.
Those upfronts amounts to mucho cash. If there are no upfronts to sell, then Long alleges that these billion dollar networks will be worth something along the lines of a basic cable channel.
Uh, carry on.
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