Dark age is coming for TV-addicts by Martina Fischerova

Bad news appeared last days for TV addicts either Hollywood producers.Members of the Writer Guilt of America voted unanimity for calling the strike last week. The cause is simple &money.The talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have continued since july without any noticeable progress.The source of the problem is that the writers demanding more money from the sale of DVDs and a share of revenue generated by the sale of TV shows and films over the Internet. Writers say the strike will last untill studios offer a more lucrative deal. The producers said it couldn't be reached.The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced that writers unreasonable proposals would result in astronomical increases in producers costs." But WGA is not all alone in their opinion - The Screen Actors Guild faces the same royalty issues as writers, and its president, Alan Rosenberg, expressed support for them last week.The worst what could happen is the immediate affect on TV program followed by loosing viewers and cause financial troubles to producers.First talkshows which are dependent on current events will dissapear from our TV screens since one or two weeks. Daytime soap operas would run out of episodes within a month, primetime sitcoms and dramas would last for 6 to 12 weeks. So far famous series as Lost, Desperate houswives and others would stop in next january or february because development of new series for next season would be cut short.The major networks would be forced to fill their schedules with repeats, newsmagazines and reality-TV series, all of which are unaffected by the strike. We can just hope that these two sides will find common speech soon and the viewers won' t get bored to death without their belowed shows and series watching repeats all the time.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071105/ap_on_bi_ge/hollywood_labor;_ylt=AkTqM6qTzvFB74tTFyk8f7Os0NUE

by Martina Fischerova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Edited by Iveta Nagyova