Here I am in L.A., sitting in my first panel of the Television Critics Association press tour for Summer 2008, and, man oh man, it’s been a long wait for me to get back to one of these things.
I’d had every intention of attending the Winter 2007 tour, but as you may recall, the Writer’s Strike put the kabosh on that event…and with the battle between the SGA (Screen Actors Guild) and their brethren in AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), it looked for a while like this tour might not happen, either. Heck, it’s still not impossible that this thing could stop dead in its tracks if it turns out that the members of AFTRA haven’t accepted the contract offered to them by the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers), as you can read about here. But I think the general presumption is that AFTRA will accept the contract, and if they do, then it’s far less likely that the SGA will decide to strike.
There are a lot of really great panels this time around, and I look forward to bringing you info about just about every single one of them, so stay tuned!
