The Office Season 4

[Kris P Lettus]

Yeah but writers and creators of shows should see a share of profits when a show succeeds.. Some studio exec makes hundreds of million dollars a year in ad revenue alone based solely on the fact that the show is popular because it is a good show.. 9 times outta 10, it is a good show because of the actors and writers.. On a show like the Office, who's main writers are actors, they are getting boned.. Watch that video I posted.. They talk about how the studio got them to write "webisodes" that were outside of their contracts.. The "webisodes" have ads embedded into them that couldn't be fast fowarded online.. The companies paying for the ads pretty muched paid for the episodes to be made, but the writers got no bump for them..

Look at it this way, what if you bartended at a bar that was closed on sundays.. Would you go in a work a private party on a sunday for free, just so the owner of the bar could make extra money??

[Stickman]

Originally Posted by Kris P Lettus Yeah but writers and creators of shows should see a share of profits when a show succeeds.. Some studio exec makes hundreds of million dollars a year in ad revenue alone based solely on the fact that the show is popular because it is a good show.. 9 times outta 10, it is a good show because of the actors and writers.. On a show like the Office, who's main writers are actors, they are getting boned.. Watch that video I posted.. They talk about how the studio got them to write "webisodes" that were outside of their contracts.. The "webisodes" have ads embedded into them that couldn't be fast fowarded online.. The companies paying for the ads pretty muched paid for the episodes to be made, but the writers got no bump for them.. Look at it this way, what if you bartended at a bar that was closed on sundays.. Would you go in a work a private party on a sunday for free, just so the owner of the bar could make extra money??

Your first point makes a lot of sense. The bartending one, not so much.