Picketing at Universal today was boisterous not to mention noisy: trucks and cars loudly honked in support. Several members of SAG joined WGA lines including Frances Fisher, Justine Bateman and Marg Helgenberger and walked for many hours. Showrunners like Desperate Housewives‘s Marc Cherry, Frasier creator Peter Casey, Drew Carey creator Bruce Helford and CSI‘s Carol Mendelsohn were out there, too. Ahmet Zappa drove by and dropped... 

Hollywood writers took to the picket lines early Monday morning, disrupting taping of the Today Show at the NBC Headquarters in New York’s Rockefeller Center. As I mentioned in my previous article, Hollywood Writers To Strike!, this strike could amount to something huge. It may seem like small potatoes on the surface, but Hollywood Writers on strike means no one is writing in Hollywood. The strike is the first walkout by writers since... 

This just in, from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily. Check the site often for up to the minute updates. I just heard from a source attending tonight’s Writers Guild Of America general membership meeting that the exact timing of the writers strike will be decided tomorrow morning, then announced in the afternoon… The WGA leadership said tonight it waited until the writers contract expired at midnight on October 31st...