Tidbits
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- January
- 16
• Men in Trees shut down production this week. The good news is that because so many episodes were left over from last season, we should have new episodes weekly from its Feb. 27 return date through May 7, extrapolates Michael Ausiello over at TVGuide.com.
• Smallville is supposed to wrap production Jan. 23, so there’s still a few more super-episodes left in the can there, too.
• Four major studios canceled lots of writers contracts this week  20th Century Fox Television, CBS Paramount Network Television, NBC Universal and Warner Bros. Television  for development and production. The LA Times explains, “Such arrangements typically cost the studios $500,000 to $2 million a year per writer in order to pay them and their staffs and overhead while they develop ideas for new TV shows.” ABC Studios last week acted similarly. More cuts could come if the strike continues into February, according to the times. “The action saves the media companies tens of millions of dollars in payments, and is the first real sign of belt-tightening caused by the strike.”
• Georgetown University’s ballyhooed “The Law of 24” class began this week, the school reports. Walter Gary Sharp, an adjunct professor of law and “Department of Defense career man,” says the class is a “very serious” look at the “very wide range of contentious legal issues around counterterrorism” raised by the show. “Through it all, Sharp said, Jack Bauer provides a fictional model that gets the job done, but plays fast and loose with legal boundaries.” Really? I never noticed.
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