The WGA has resumed informal negotiations with the AMPTP. They’ve also both agreed to a complete news blackout so details are pretty sparse. We have learned that the WGA has withdrawn their proposal for jurisdiction over reality programming and animation which sort of confuses me. Reality, I understand. Even if there are parts that are scripted, it doesn’t take a full writing staff to come up with Howie’s lines, “Deal or no deal.” Animation? That takes a whole army of production and writing staff. That would seem to me to be a huge freaking deal for the writers. Apparently not.

As to the Oscars, WGA East’s president Michael Winship had this to say:

Until the Writers Guild has a deal with the conglomerates — the studios and networks — our intention is to boycott the Oscars, to picket the Oscars and to ask our fellow union members at the Screen Actors Guild to boycott the Oscars. That’s our plan.

Meh. I’ve never been a fan of the Academy awards. Every year they manage to piss me the hell of and every year, like an insane Alzheimer’s patient, I watch the stupid show. Besides, I don’t see a deal being easily agreed to by then. Oscar’s fate is anyone’s guess at this point.

[Via Variety]

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