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WGAW Negotiating Committee Named
Yeppers, it’s that time again. You know, the one where we writers of TV and feature films have to gird our loins and prepare to grind out an agreement on a new contract between the Writers Guild of America, West, and our mortal enemies overlords employers, The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
D-Day is May 1, 2017. Here’s how things stand now, per the Guild:
WGA ANNOUNCES NEGOTIATING COMMITTEEThe Writers Guilds of America, West and East have named the members of the negotiating committee for the upcoming contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. WGAW Executive Director David Young will serve as Chief Negotiator. The current agreement expires May 1, 2017. No date has been set for the talks. We will update you as important developments occur.
TIMELESS: Will it get stuck in the Time Tunnel?
by Lew Ritter
One of the new series I looked forward to the most this fall is TIMELESS.
All summer, I watched the trailers featuring scenes of the Hindenburg disaster. The Hindenburg was a giant dirigible airship that exploded above Lakehurst, New jersey in 1937. I am an avid history buff, and the prospect of a show in which the main characters travel through time to battle a master criminal out to alter human history seemed to me to be “appointment television.”
Several TV shows have, of course, utilized the idea of time travel as a basis for their premise. A similar show currently running is LEGENDS OF TOMORROW. It also shares a similar concept of heroes preventing a villain from destroying the world.
Diana Vacc Sees “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
by Diana Vaccarelli
*Be warned – this review may contain spoilers*
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is J.K. Rowling’s prequel to the Harry Potter books and takes place seventy years before them. It’s no secret that I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, one of the results of which is that going into this film I had high expectations. Would this film hold up?
THE GOOD: