Arresting the 2008-’09 Season’s Development?

Uh oh.

It was reported today that the Screen Actors Guild’s negotiating committee voted yesterday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break stalled contract talks with Hollywood studios.

The recommendation, approved 11-2, now will go to SAG’s national board for review, and would ultimately need approval of 75 percent of the some 120,000 voting guild members.

Contract talks dealing with primetime TV shows and films have been at a standstill since the previous contract expired on June 30. Actors have been working under the terms of the old deal in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the 100-day writers strike that ended in February. The strike shut down production of dozens of TV shows, leaving me without my Chuck and my Dirty Sexy Money for months, and cost the Los Angeles area economy an estimated $2.5 billion.

Yep, billion…with a B.

Can’t we all play nice?

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