On Feb 18, 2:10 pm, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> The point isn't that AI is the most appropriate target, it's that AI
> is the most visible target.
Especially since the real reason for targeting Fremantle isn't on the
air anymore--WGA writers were hired for the now-defunct game show
"Temptation" and given "producer" credits for the same lower-than-
scale salary they were going to pay nonunion writers to write the game
material. This was the impetus for the WGA targeting "Idol"--and the
attempt by Fremantle to make WGA writers part-time on the yet-to-air
Osbornes variety series for Fox didn't help things (the claim was that
the writers didn't write the audience participation segments, so they
didn't need to be paid in full). "Price" might be a target, but it's
a daytime show and Fremantle doesn't have anything else in production
now except the Fremantle series that more people watch than any other.
I'm assuming that if the Americanization of "The IT Crowd" had gone to
series, there would've been WGA writers, but Universal was producing
that with Fremantle (whose UK branch TalkbackThames produces the
original UK version).
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