Kobe Beef is not a scriptwriter at OLTL. Please find a new baseless rumor to perpetuate for "buzz".

Kobe Beef

OMG LMAO!! I almost fell out of my chair. That's pure gold.

I did, however, hear that the Beef has submitted a bible for a revival of "Love Of Life" starring the surviving members of the Reeve family and Tudi Wiggins, in which a holographic projection of Chris Reeve continues the role of "Ben" using old dialogue audio and cutting edge technology.

Casting is contingent on the networks accepting the Beef's bold new plans and her demand that Jacquie Courtney be allowed on the show.

It was Don Chastain who Marland mentioned in the article. Sorry for the delayed response.

What article?

I know you have stated your opinion before about cutting the shows to only airing 2-3 times a week, but to me that is a crazy idea. Granted this is only my opinion, but the reason I like daytime soaps is because they are on 5 days a week there is a certain familiarairty to them. I feel like you would take more away from the show by doing it that way, like right now on weeks that my soaps are pre-empted for a basketball game it makes that weeks show feel to rushed.Would they be cheaper sure maybe, but if they are going to do that they might as well cut them to once a week put them on in primetime and call it a day.

Also I have to disagree with your whole KB stance- Keep this woman as far away from daytime as possible!

I think he's saying that soaps should air two or three days a week during the strike. I think that would be smart, to stretch out the episodes they have. If they have to use scab writers, I'd like them to have time to find and train people who won't completely screw things up. I recall reading that during the 1981 strike, an actor in the cast became headwriter to avoid his character being killed off. Does anybody want Ronn Moss writing B&B? Austin Peck at ATWT? Not me. Besides, don't the CBS soaps do well on the weeks when they air three episodes due to the sports?

Sumner M. Redstone, executive chairman of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp., said today that the entertainment and broadcast giants he controlled would “not be materially affected” by the writers strike.

"Look, we’ve been preparing for this for a long time,” Redstone said. “We’re certainly not happy about it and we hope that it is settled amicably, but we feel we’re pretty well positioned to live with a strike.”

He noted that CBS prime-time shows such as the “CSI” series, “Criminal Minds” and “Two and a Half Men” lend themselves fairly well to repeats. Viacom’s Paramount Pictures studio has a slate of already-produced films that should last it for a good while, he said.

Redstone made the remarks in an interview following a speech he gave at a media conference in Manhattan. A main theme of his speech was the importance of respect for copyrights in an industry beset with piracy and illegal digital downloading. Earlier this year, Viacom filed a $1-billion lawsuit against YouTube and its corporate parent, Google Inc., stemming from unauthorized posting of such Viacom shows as “The Colbert Report” and “South Park” on YouTube.

Redstone was asked whether there was any tension between Viacom’s view that copyright owners are entitled to compensation and its opposition to the writers union’s demand to be paid for digital versions of their creations.

“There’s no tension, no,” Redstone said. “They are creators of copyright material, and that material is protected. The disagreement –- and there are always disagreements in business -– is to what extent and where they are compensated.”

-- Thomas S. Mulligan

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URGENT! Showrunners Pledge Solidarity Response To CBS Breach Of Contract CBS Letters

I have all the details now of that big TV showrunners' powpow that took place yesterday. Among the big news is that they've been sent "breach of contract" letters from CBS Paramount yesterday telling them that if they don't report back to work then they'll be sued. The news was announced at a closed door, extremely secret meeting of 115 showrunners who gathered at the Writers Guild Of America to discuss strike-related issues amongst themselves. (I broke the news of the confab here yesterday afternoon. Since Variety is using DHD as a tip source, it finally wrote anemically about the meeting on its barely read blog late last night. No separate story on it was even in the trade today. Again, pathetic.) "The CBS letters yesterday said that if the showrunners don't report back into work for their producing duties, they're in breach and they'll be sued." No other showrunners had received letters yet from their respective networks or studios, the gathering was told. The CBS letters news was received somberly by the group. "Since CBS is first, it became clear that Les [Moonves] is the most pissed," a source at the meeting told me. "All the other showrunners now expect to get similar letters." After a group discussion, the showrunners came to an agreement on how to deal with this threat to them. "The writers agreed that, if anybody gets sued, the showrunners will all stand together. Those who are still working will go out and join us on the picket lines, and, if we're all back at work, then we'll all go out," a source told me. "That's if we come back."

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It's getting ugly!!!! I really admire the showrunners sticking together.

It's getting ugly!!!! I really admire the showrunners sticking together.

It HAS to get uglier before it gets better... the sooner the networks and studios see that EVERYONE is banding together on this, and they're going to have to face the same issues or else lose all the actors in May (and THAT'S what really scares the bejeezus out of them), the sooner this strike will END.

Brian, I agree with your earlier post about the GL writer who probably doesn't even know what anniversary his show is celebrating. it's everywhere, in the opening, the findyourlight.net ads on the mainstreet theater entrance so it's shocking one of the people behind the scenes would say that, consciously or subconsciously.

Also, I found this quote from an article from craveonline http://www.craveonline.com/articles/filmtv...a_long_one.html

"Daytime TV, including live talk shows and soap operas, will soon feel the impact as well. Without writers, who will come up with today’s cutting-edge soap opera content? We may have a long wait before we find out whose evil twin brother is sleeping with the alien-possessed millionaire heiress wife of the murderous chief of police on “Days of Our Restless Hospital ”. Something needs to be done. "

Cutting edge? Does this author even know the current state of the genre? Also I wonder why so many articles are for once talking about soap operas and how they will "be the next casualty" without acknowledging what the industry did last time with the scabs. i guess we will see if history repeats itself again.

Someone posted this at Soap Central:

From Soapzone:

today someone posted this quote on the unitedhollywood.com

A picketer at Prospect Studios sent in a disturbing report that some daytime dramas have already hired scabs.

"The scab writers work under fake names, work from home and use different email addresses so only the EP knows the real identities of the scabs. These tend to be experienced soap writers who aren't currently on a show. They are then promised employment after the strike is over. While they're scabbing, they get paid less than union writers. The networks see this as cheaper than shutting down production, as a soap has an enormous amount of cast, and paying out their contracts while they don't work makes this deal seem financially better."

Some are speculating Frons has gotten McTavish to scab for AMC........

Cutting edge? Does this author even know the current state of the genre? Also I wonder why so many articles are for once talking about soap operas and how they will "be the next casualty" without acknowledging what the industry did last time with the scabs. i guess we will see if history repeats itself again.

Thank you Jacks. I had to laugh at the "cutting edge" part. They (reporters) are either completely out of their league with this topic, or they just don't care.

Someone posted this at Soap Central:

Some are speculating Frons has gotten McTavish to scab for AMC........

You know, a much as I hate Mcterrible, she never drove AMC to a 1.9 in the ratings. Her scabbing might not be the worst thing She's definately better than what we have now (cries at the bitter irony).

Geezs, why don't think just cancel AMC and get it over with? If this is indeed true...

I haven't noticed a change between McTavish and B&E's pile of crap at all.

Is Mctavish NOT in the Guild? She's written AMC off/on for years, I would assume she has to be.

If she isn't and she is back scabbing, I can't believe Frons and Carruthers would make such a stupid move even if it is so something they would do. I mean really, do they expect ratings to rise? B&E may be bad, but honestly I can barely see a difference from them than the stuff Mctavish wrote.

Edited November 9, 200718 yr by daysfan

Well there's some difference Erica's not the cartoon she was under McTrash. McTrash never had all time lows like this either.

From what I read at SOC, McTavish isn't doing nothing but sitting at home on her arse LOL