SAG talks turn to key issues
Will the Screen Actors Guild go on strike when its feature-primetime contract expires June 30? With Hollywood still unnerved by the possibility of a second strike in less than seven months, the answer will become much clearer this week. SAG's negotiations with the majors will become much more serious after a week of laying the groundwork at meetings at the AMPTP headquarters in Encino.
SAG's under pressure to finish off a deal this week since AFTRA's scheduled to start talks on its handful of primetime shows starting April 28. If SAG doesn't have a deal at that point and AFTRA makes one, it could open the door for AFTRA to expand its coverage in areas of shared jurisdiction. AFTRA split off from negotiating with SAG in late March, asserting it could no longer trust SAG leaders after a bitter dispute arose over actors on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL seeking to decertify from AFTRA and sign with SAG. The two performers unions have long been at odds over jurisdiction and strategy.
VIDEO: Budig, Bjorlin and Lavoisier on Rachael Ray
Three daytime stars (Rebecca Budig of ALL MY CHILDREN, Nadia Bjorlin of DAYS OF OUR LIVES and John-Paul Lavoisier of ONE LIFE TO LIVE) tackle three touchy problems - bad breath, sore feet and body odor - in the first-ever "Human Lab: Soap Star Edition" of The RACHAEL RAY SHOW on April 22nd.
BAFTA soap winners
The 2008 British Academy Television Awards took place in London last night. BRITZ (Channel 4) won for "Best drama serial" while HOLBY CITY (BBC One) won for "Best continuing drama."
BAFTA winner Harry Hill to make spoof soap opera
BAFTA award winning Harry Hill is to make a spoof soap for ITV called SOAPINGTON WAY. Hill's TV BURP won the entertainment programme prize at last night's Bafta TV awards and he also won the entertainment performance award for the hit ITV1 show. Hill will play a pub landlord called Arthur Buttons in the new show, and has made a pilot co-starring Liza Tarbuck, as his mum, Mark Benton and Kate Robbins. It has now been commissioned for a series.
PHOTOS: BAFTA Frocks – Winners and Sinners
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Y&R's Brenda Epperson
At the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach this weekend, the National Anthem was sung skillfully with a "sense of elan" by Brenda Epperson, who played Ashley Abbott a few years ago on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. She is married to the former UCLA linebacker, Terry Moore, now a successful West Los Angeles real estate broker. "Epperson did a terrific job hanging on to the last note of Francis Scott Key's epic until the arrival of a couple of F-18 Navy Jets from Lemoore, who came roaring overhead for the traditional flyover just as she finished. The jets even returned for a sequel, this time even lower with their landing wheels down."
VIDEO: Ross the Intern at DAYS
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