Month: May 2017

What the Latest WGA-MPTP Agreement Means

by Gerry Conway

LB’s NOTE: TVWriter™  has been getting a lot of email asking us – mostly in a more subtle way – what the big deal is about the result of the latest negotiation with the AMPTP and why are we, the members of the WGA, so thrilled about the result.

Good questions, for sure. And my good buddy Gerry Conway has some good answers, right here, right now (and also on his blog, where this short but perceptive reaction originally appeared just a few days ago):

Just got an email from the WGA negotiating committee, and for the first time since I became a member in 1978, I believe the Guild has achieved the impossible– we pushed back against the studios’ greed and intransigence without having to destroy or damage careers and livelihoods in the process. read article

WGA Official Tentative AMPTP Agreement Message

From the officers’ and negotiators’ lips to our ears:

 

It’s WGA Day on TVWriter™!

One map reader to another – shouldn’t the WGA West be on the left? Just asking….

And why not?

Lots of Writers Guild of America, West and East, doings recently, as y’all may have noticed, so we’re devoting this whole day to GuildAc, as the fannish world might call Guild Activity – and, now that we think about it, why shouldn’t the WGAs have fans?  Start as a fan, donate time and love to your Guild, move on up to pro ranks–

But we digress. Time for the posts. For the latest on what’s happening in the pro writing world, scroll on up. Why up? Because…interwebs, gang. Inter%#@!Webs. read article

TV’s Haught Lesbian Cop Girlfriends

Maggie & Nicole!

 by Kathryn Graham

—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT–

Supergirl is back, and with it Alex Danvers and her hot cop girlfriend, Maggie Sawyer. Last week’s episode featured Maggie a lot more prominently than before: and it is one of the best of the series so far. read article

And now it’s time for something completely different….

A delightful test post. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along.

At least, it’ll all be fine if you’re seeing this page. If not…well, you won’t even be able to let us know, will you?