Desperate Housewives - Comment the TORNADO + 4.10: BIG SPOILERS!
OMG, I'm still in shock. What abot you guys, also going crazy because we have NO IDEA on when the next episode is gonna air? Stupid writer's strike. ¬¬
Anywayz, I found some HUGE SPOILERS about the 4X10 episode. Read if you want!
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Episode 4X10: AIRDATE UNKNOWN, thanks to the strike. It's been filmed, but it's uncertain when it will air.
- Katherine gets her hands on the note her aunt left before she died;
- Carlos is paralyzed, but he doesn’t tell Gabrielle, who thinks his legs are merely broken;
- A memorial service at a church is packed with mourners. Gabrielle sits in the front pew, dressed in black. Overcome with emotion, she flees the church;
- As the neighbors look on, firefighters rescue people from Mrs. McCluskey's destroyed house. Ida Greenberg was killed;
- Adam and Katherine ID Sylvia's body at the morgue, as the dead woman had the couple's address in her pocket without any other ID. Adam claims he knew the woman from outside Fairview and assumed Sylvia was stopping by to say hello. Katherine's affected by this but tries to avoid saying anything in front of the medical examiner;
- Mike's at a rehab center. He meets a woman who's there for the third time. He's not interested in attending the group session and the woman realizes he's not ready for it;
- Bree wants a contractor to do some emergency repairs on her home. She invites him over for dinner in hopes of buttering him up. (The dinner's at Susan's, thanks to the house damage.) Knowing he's gay and recently single, she makes sure Andrew is present. Complications arise when Susan has her own gay guy she'd like Andrew to be with;
- Two of the women help Ida Greenberg's nephew load his aunt's possessions into his van. The other woman's upset to learn the man doesn't plan to spread the ashes at a stadium as his aunt wanted. She offers to retrieve the ashes from the woman's house for the nephew. (Note: the nephew may actually be a niece.) The women must break into the stadium to spread the ashes, where they're caught by police. One of the women shakes the ashes out as she runs;
- Either Gabrielle or Edie attends the wake of Carlos' CPA, who'd arranged the move of his offshore account. (He died, off-screen, from tornado related injuries too) The woman feigns grief when she meets the man's wife for the first time, but what she wants to know is where his files are. After learning they're nearby, she makes a quick exit.
Desperate Housewives - Episode 4.10 to air on January 6
The episode 10 from the 4th season, it's called "Welcome To Kanagawa" and it's gonna air on January 6th. I should remind everyone that this the LAST completed episode before the writer's strike.
I really hope that they are able to come up with more completed episodes because I don't want to have to wait a year (not literally) for another episode after this.
On the flip side, other shows seem to be holding out some hope that they will be able to produce more episodes if the strike ends soon, such as Desperate Housewives honcho Marc Cherry.
"It depends upon when the strike ends," Cherry told me Sunday at the SAG Awards, "but if it were very soon, I think maybe I could cram in seven episodes [before the end of the season]. It would take us about two weeks to get back into production. I'm chomping at the bit. The moment the starting pistol is fired, I'm off and running. I'm ready to go, I just need the okay [from the union]."
Desperate Housewives - Strike coming to an end + Storyline news
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Strike may end this SATURDAY
So Ausiello from TV Guide says: "I say it'll be over shortly after this Saturday's big WGA meeting, during which the negotiating committee is expected to present the tentative deal to the membership. According to one of my moles, "If the membership seems supportive of the deal, the strike order could be lifted shortly — even though it could take several more weeks to formally ratify the agreement."
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Marc Cherry expects to bring the show back for other SEVEN new episodes
According to Kristin from E! Online: "On the flip side, other shows seem to be holding out some hope that they will be able to produce more episodes if the strike ends soon, such as Desperate Housewives honcho Marc Cherry. "It depends upon when the strike ends," Cherry told me Sunday at the SAG Awards, "but if it were very soon, I think maybe I could cram in seven episodes [before the end of the season]. It would take us about two weeks to get back into production. I'm chomping at the bit. The moment the starting pistol is fired, I'm off and running. I'm ready to go, I just need the okay [from the union]."
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News about Orson/Mike 3rd season mystery
Here's what James 'Mike' Denton told Ausiello about two-year-old mystery of why Orson ran Mike down in his car.:
"That storyline changed," he told me. "Originally, Orson was going to be the really bad guy. But then everybody fell in love with Kyle and wanted to keep him around, so Dixie Carter kind of took the fall for him. But now he's got some 'splainin' to do."
Well, I always thought Orson had ran Mike down with his car because he was scared Mike could remember Orson had an affair with Monique and could assume he had something with her death?
Anywayz, I really hope the strike ends this weekend. Much too much, we had more than enough! Argh.
Desperate Housewives - Season 4 back in APRIL + Other News!
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ABC Announces Pick-Up Orders for 9 Shows
From Film.com:
With Hollywood about to rev up again following a three-month writers strike, ABC announced Monday that it had ordered a season's worth of episodes for nine series next fall, including four freshman series.
The prime-time soap "Dirty Sexy Money," fantasy forensics series "Pushing Daisies," the "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff "Private Practice" and Christina Applegate comedy "Samantha Who?" will all be back for a second season.
The other pick-ups aren't a surprise: "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "Grey's Anatomy," "Brothers & Sisters" and "Ugly Betty."
The rest of ABC's fall schedule will be unveiled in the next few months.
Television writers could be back at work as early as Wednesday if members of their union vote to end their walkout because of a tentative contract deal. It's still unclear how much of this current season can be salvaged for favorite shows.
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The WGA's strike is OFFICIALLY - and finally - OVER
From CNN.com
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Striking Hollywood writers will be back at their keyboards Wednesday after voting overwhelmingly to end a 100-day walkout that essentially shut down the entertainment industry.
More than 92 percent of the Writers Guild of America members who cast ballots Tuesday in Los Angeles and New York voted to end their work stoppage over residuals for writing in the digital age, including new media and the Internet. The new deal is for three years.
"The strike is over. Our membership has voted, and writers can go back to work," said Patric Verrone, president of the WGA's West chapter.
Michael Winship, president of WGA's East guild, said, "The success of this strike is a significant achievement not only for ourselves but the entire creative community, now and in the future."
WGA members walked off the job November 5 after talks broke down over how writers are paid for the use of their material on the Internet and DVDs, among other issues.
"It is not all that we hoped for, and it is not all we deserve," Verrone said when a tentative deal was announced Saturday.
But he added, "This is the best deal this guild has bargained for in 30 years."
Leslie Moonves, chief executive officer of CBS Corp., told The Associated Press, "At the end of the day, everybody won.
"It was a fair deal and one that the companies can live with, and it recognizes the large contribution that writers have made to the industry."
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents production companies and media conglomerates, has had no comment on the agreement.
The vote meant that the Academy Awards ceremony on February 24 will be the usual scripted gala, the AP reported.
"I am ecstatic that the 80th Academy Awards presentation can now proceed full steam ahead," without "hesitation or discomfort" for the nominees, Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which stages the Oscars, told the AP.
As long as the strike continued, the traditional Oscars spectacular was in doubt since many Hollywood stars would not cross WGA picket lines.
It's unclear how soon new episodes of scripted programs will start appearing, because production won't begin until scripts are completed, the AP reported.
It will take at least four weeks for producers to get the first post-strike episodes of comedies back on the air; dramas will take six to eight weeks, the AP said.
Verrone said the WGA achieved two of three goals through negotiations with the studios. The first goal relates to writers' "jurisdiction" in new media, Verrone said, meaning that any content written by guild members specifically for new media, such as the Internet or cell phones, will be covered by their contract.
The second goal relates to reuse of content in new media, Verrone said.
The agreement bases payment for reuses on a distributor's gross formula for residuals, "so that when they get paid, we get paid," he said.
It is the "first time in our history that a new delivery system pays on a residual formula superior to the prior existing system," Verrone said.
The third goal, which Verrone said the guild did not achieve, was to shore up writers' shares of the revenue from animation and reality television.
"Giving up animation and reality was a heartbreaking thing for me personally," he said. "But it was more important that we make a deal that benefited the membership, the town as a whole, that got people back to work and that solved the biggest problems in new media."
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Marc Cherry expects to bring the show back for other SEVEN new episodes
According to Kristin from E! Online: "On the flip side, other shows seem to be holding out some hope that they will be able to produce more episodes if the strike ends soon, such as Desperate Housewives honcho Marc Cherry. "It depends upon when the strike ends," Cherry told me Sunday at the SAG Awards, "but if it were very soon, I think maybe I could cram in seven episodes [before the end of the season]. It would take us about two weeks to get back into production. I'm chomping at the bit. The moment the starting pistol is fired, I'm off and running. I'm ready to go, I just need the okay [from the union]."
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News about Orson/Mike 3rd season mystery
Here's what James 'Mike' Denton told Ausiello about two-year-old mystery of why Orson ran Mike down in his car.:
"That storyline changed," he told me. "Originally, Orson was going to be the really bad guy. But then everybody fell in love with Kyle and wanted to keep him around, so Dixie Carter kind of took the fall for him. But now he's got some 'splainin' to do."