ANTM on strike!
for myself and other fans of fabulous reality tv show america's next top model, you might be interested to read this interview over on television without pity with one of the show's writers about the strike the writing staff is currently on. it's actually kind of interesting - the writing team is striking because currently, basically no reality show writers have been allowed to join the writers guild of america and get all the benefits that come with that - little things like health insurance and pensions. apparently reality tv show writers aren't considered real writers, or something, by the industry in general, and this strike by the ANTM writing crew could have really far-reaching effects on if reality show writers are allowed to unionize. kind of interesting. there's also a bit of insight into the process of how the show - and other reality shows - are "written." my take is that the CW better up and let the ANTM folks do what the hell they want, as the show is basically the flagship of a fledgling network that's gonna need a lot of help come fall.
but let's face it: ain't no writer talented enough out there to come up with the line "bitch poured beer on my weave."
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We have a friend who wrote for Real World: Key West. there are writers for EVERYTHING.
Are you watching Project Runway? Even more awesome than ANTM. (Which, sadly, has been slipping the last couple of seasons.)
i have been! it's fantastic. but i was highly disappointed when they kicked malan off instead of vincent or angela. i always really did think they generally chose talent over personality/potential drama creation and i was super disappointed by that move.
Dan is asking friends to call the network and express solidarity with the writers:
No way they'll let reality writers into the union. That's the raison d'être of reality television: you don't have to pay union writers and actors.
i think they'll have to eventually...i mean they do do an awful lot of work setting up the plot lines and making it interesting. not the idiots who subject themselves to the filming, though.
And surely union actors are much more expensive than union writers, so this isn't exactly the nail in the coffin of reality TV.
(That said, a "reality television participant" union is pretty funny to contemplate.)
The first time I was in LA, we went to the bar where the "bitch poured beer on my weave" incident happened. It was like an ANTM pilgrimage.
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