Some might call this the smoking gun. The Financial Times estimates that the four US networks are earning approximately $120 million in online ad revenue in 2007. This makes the AMPTP’s offer of $139 to the writers for a year of unlimited online reruns seem a bit paltry by comparison. The writers, needless to say, turned down that offer. Although talks are scheduled to resume today, the current mood is less than optimistic, with some predicting that the strike may drag on as late as March. As usual, United Hollywood has all the scoop.
Of course, the writers should win not only because they are the toiling, salt-of-the-earth underdogs to the studios’ cigar-chomping, Armani-wearing, Hollywood-Hills-home owning Goliaths. They also have the best campaign. Courtesy of a Colbert Report writer:
There’s something for everyone on Monday night. How I Met Your Mother still makes me laugh every week, which is something I never thought I’d say for a CBS comedy. CBS, 8:30
Chuck also still makes me laugh. So does Heroes, which follows it, though I’m pretty sure Chuck is the only one that’s intentionally funny. NBC, 8:00 and 9:00
For cheesy goodness, Gossip Girl’s second season has more than lived up to the promise of the first one. Chuck may be the greatest soap villain since Amanda Woodward first flexed her claws. CW, 8:00
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