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PRODUCERS 'SWEETEN' FINAL OFFER TO SAG
Jul 10 2008 
In an effort to end the bargaining impasse with the Screen Actors Guild, the Alliance (more)

DESPITE AFTRA VOTE, SAG REMAINS DEFIANT
Jul 9 2008 
The Screen Actors Guild was claiming a symbolic victory Tuesday night as more than a (more)

AFTRA VOTING RESULTS DUE TODAY OR TOMORROW
Jul 8 2008 
Results of voting by members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on (more)
HEADING FOR A LONG IMPASSE?
Friday, July 11 2008    Digg!
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers signaled Thursday that it was done negotiating with the Screen Actors Guild and that its "last, best, final offer" was indeed just that. The AMPTP insisted that SAG's leadership was "unreasonably" demanding more than was gained by other entertainment industry unions, including the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). "Our final offer to SAG members includes more than $250 million in additional compensation, important new media rights and protection for pension and health benefits. The refusal of SAG's Hollywood leadership to accept this offer is the latest in a series of actions by SAG leaders that, in our opinion, puts labor peace at risk," the AMPTP said. The AMPTP also asked the union to allow its members to vote on its offer -- something that the union leaders rejected out of hand, saying that they would not present a contract to the membership that they could not recommend. While analysts say that the AMPTP would likely agree to SAG's demands on product integration and force majeure, the union's insistence that those demands be tied with new media jurisdiction and DVD residuals -- issues that the AMPTP has indicated it will not further discuss -- would appear to make a long stalemate -- some say that it could last for months or even years -- inevitable. Entertainment industry attorney Jonathan Handel, who has represented the WGA in its negotiations with the AMPTP in the past, noted that SAG leaders have lost most, if not all, of their leverage in their talks with producers, who can now make separate deals with AFTRA or simply impose the terms of the current SAG contract, which is less beneficial to actors than the AFTRA pact. "In essence, SAG's Hollywood leadership has backed itself into a corner, then painted itself into it for good measure," Handel wrote in a commentary appearing in the online Huffington Post. "Meanwhile actors and the entire industry suffer from a work slowdown with little prospect of anything to show for it."

CANADIAN-FILMED SERIES DEBUTS ON CBS
Friday, July 11 2008 
As if to remind the Screen Actors Guild that not all actors reside in the U.S., CBS tonight (Friday) premieres Flashpoint, produced with Canada's CTV, the first all-Canadian import since Due South debuted a decade ago. CBS ordered the show last January during the writers' strike. Reviews have been mixed. Newsday TV writer Verne Gay commented that the first half of tonight's episode "is tautly produced, before there's a dramatic -- and dramatically dull -- (more)

SHOWS WITH NO ACTORS DOMINATE RATINGS
Thursday, July 10 2008 
Suggesting that television networks may have little to lose by continuing to take a tough stance against the Screen Actors Guild, not a single TV program featuring actors made a significant showing in the ratings Tuesday night with the exception of NBC's always dependable Law & Order: SVU. All of the other top shows featured AFTRA -- rather than SAG -- members, who were covered by a previously negotiated contract with the television networks. The (more)

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