If anyone hears anything about Law and Order SVU, please post it! That is the one show I make sure to watch every week, and it makes me sad that it may not be on!

The writers are doing a good job and deserve compensation. A hot debate is taking place at forum and blog area of Richromances.com where many celebrities and rich guys are chatting and looking. Do you guys want to know how it is going on this topic?

Dirty Sexy Money needs better dialogue. I can live with the arc, but the dialogue is a bit flat.

Actors are making buckets of money while the writers are getting pennies in comparison. From what I have read, we are not talking about massive raises for the writers, but updating a system that was set-up well before the latest technology boom and is therefore quite outdated. Everyone else is profitting off of technology, why shouldn't the writers?

Maybe America should find something to do other than watch TV all the time.

11:06 AM Anonymous Says:

just find different writers, most of the shows could use a good overhaul. I think that striking is a dumb thing to do, never turns out good for either side. Most people in America live with their jobs and just do their work for what they get paid, if they dont like it they find a new job, so move on and find a new job that pays more!
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Most people in America have job security, a salary and benefits. Most people also don't have as significant a part in the creation of the product that brings in the money as a writer does in TV and film.

Stop with those stu.pid matching site ads. It is sooo blatent and cheap that you would come to a free chat forum and advertise like that. PAY FOR IT!
If you set up all these wealthy people - you must make money....so then set up your own website dum-a.s.s.

Oh yea, give the writers what they want.
They deserve it - if it weren't for them the shows would be nothing.

The Writers Guild of America is a middle-class union. Almost half our membership receives no income from Guild-covered employment in any given year. As a result, the median income of Guild members from screen and television writing work is $5,000 per year. That's right: five thousand. Among the lucky half who actually work, one quarter earns less than $37,700 a year. And even that income is sporadic. You sell a spec screenplay in 2003, you may not sell another one until 2009. More than half of those who have 'safe' staff jobs on television series will not be on television writing staffs five years from now. One of the things that tides us over during the leaner years is residuals. In other words: when the work we create has a longer tail, a continuing revenue stream, some of that comes back to us. Marc Cherry, who created Desperate Housewives after a long dry spell, would have had to give up writing altogether as a profession had he not been supported by residuals. But those residuals for things like television syndication are drying up, as syndication, re-runs and the like are replaced by DVDs. You don't watch re-runs of The Sopranos on channel eleven: you watch them on boxed sets. But the residual rate on DVDs is a fraction of a fraction: oh point three percent. As re-runs and syndication dry up, and a decent formula is replaced by an indecent one, our members stand to lose roughly 80% of their residual income--of what tides them over. This is why we're asking for four cents more for every DVD. And that's why we're asking that the DVD rate--calculated when cassettes were in their infancy, when DVDs were a gleam in no-one's eyes, when the internet was still ARPANET and closed to commercial interests, when George Michael was in Wham!--not be the determinant of how we're compensated for downloads in this brave new world.

The writers' demand is pretty simple: they want to share in the revenue stream coming in from DVDs and other new media uses. Big Media doesn't want to pay when it profits from Internet downloads, or for original writing in New Media and it refuses to pay more than a pittance for DVD sales. Big Media argues that, poor souls that they are, it can't afford to pay more because its business models for New Media are uncertain and it needs the increased revenues to offset "other costs." At any given time, 95 percent of WGA members aren't being paid a salary by Big Media. Instead, thousands of writers churn out scripts and ideas for content--most of which is never bought. You might sell a script or an idea one year and, then, not sell another product for the next 5 or 7 years. It's not because of a lack of talent. It is simply because Big Media has set up a brilliant system--it keeps a whole workforce turning out its products and doesn't have to keep them on any payroll, or pay their health care or pensions if Big Media decides not to buy what they produce. And, so, the way writers try to survive is over that stream--in most cases, quite modest stream--of royalties that come every time a DVD is sold which contains their creative output. Remember this: the vast majority of writers do not--do not--live in mansions or fly in private jets. They are mostly trying to live a middle-class life--and that isn't easy.
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what does the FNL note mean: "15-22 episodes left"? Does that mean those episodes have been written?

Who cares? Big deal? We only care how to find these celerbities. Luckily, I found one. That's brintey spears. seems she is finding her son a new father on wealthymingle.com. It is a site for celebrities and millionaires to mingle. It's said Charlie Sheen has found her love there last May.

Because they want more of the share of profits coming from downloads and dvd sales. They basically feel like they dont get paid enough for what they do.