The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors has approved its proposed contract with the Alliance of Motion Pictures & Television Producers by a 53% margin and will present the deal to its membership for ratification. The new contract with producers, as approved Sunday night at a meeting of...
The 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Jan. 23. The awards will be handed out at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles at 5 p.m. local time, but will air at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Submissions for the awards show open July 13. Nomination ballots will be mailed Nov...
Channeling Larry King once again… CNBC's Rick Santelli Rick Santelli, the CNBC blowhard who moronically lashed out at President Obama’s mortgage rescue plan last week in a much-publicized rant , certainly had every right to speak his mind as he did. And I have every right to never watch CNBC again...
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After three days of talks with the Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood's producers have issued a "last, best and final offer" to actors that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says contains significant concessions. "The AMPTP made these enhancements in an effort to...
Representatives for the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will resume contract negotiations next week, the two sides announced Wednesday. The organizations issued a joint statement declaring talks will take place Tuesday and Wednesday at the AMPTP's Sherman...
Sunday night’s simulcast of the Screen Actors Guild Awards on TBS and TNT drew the smallest audience since the two networks began airing them together in 2006. TNT, which had telecast the show exclusively from 1998 through 2005, posted a 0.9 rating/2 share among adults 18 to 49 and 2.8 million viewers...
NBC led the awards count among networks at the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild awards, with the network's "30 Rock" among top honorees. AMC's "Mad Men" also continued its winning ways in the year's awards season. "30 Rock" swept the TV comedy series categories...
The Screen Actors Guild may be divided against itself over whether to call a strike vote, but the group is forging ahead toward its annual awards show amid reports that some members are politicizing the event. When last year’s Writers Guild of America strike wreaked havoc on many entertainment industry...
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A moderate faction has won control of the Screen Actors Guild's national board, a development that appears to make the possibility of an actors strike even less likely. The slate of candidates, known as Unite for Strength, won six of 11 seats on the board, according to election results announced...
Further bickering between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers continues to make the entertainment industry uneasy, as SAG’s chief negotiator Doug Allen flatly said the producers' June 30 contract proposal is “not a good offer.” In a statement posted...