Screen Actors Guild (SAG) president Alan Rosenberg and actress Valerie Harper join thousands of Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers and others in the fifth day of their strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in a rally at Fox Plaza in Los Angeles' Century City district Friday, Nov. 9, 2007.
Cast members of the ABC series "Ugly Betty," from left, Ana Ortiz, Christopher Gorham, Ashley Jensen and Becki Newton, who are members of the Screen Actors Guild, join pickets from the Writers Guild of America and other unions marching outside Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles as the writers strike against movie and television producers enters its fourth day Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. (Photo: CBS)
Actor David Duchovny, right, talks with fellow actor Robin Williams as Williams arrives to join the picket line along with Duchovny and others during the fourth day of a strike by television and film writers, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007, at the Time Warner Center in New York. Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore and her husband, Bart Freundlich, were also there.
ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" cast members Patrick Dempsey, left, and Richard Webber join the Writers Guild of America picket line at Prospect Studios in support of fellow TV and film writers on strike in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007.
Film director and actor Clint Eastwood, right, works with a production crew on location at Pasadena City Hall Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, in Pasadena, Calif. The strike by film and television writers immediately sent late-night TV comedy shows into reruns, but it was not expected to have an immediate impact on production of movies.
Actors Maura Tierney, left, and John Stamos, right, of "ER" support members of the Writers Guild of America, as they strike outside the Warner Bros. Television Studios in Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007.
Actor Mekhi Phifer joins other cast members of the Emmy-winning television serial medical drama "ER" by supporting members of the Writers Guild of America, as they strike outside the Warner Bros. Television Studios in Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007.
"Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria delivers pizzas to film and TV writers who converged and tried to disrupt filming at a house near Warner Bros. studio, serving as a location shoot for the TV series Nov. 6, 2007, in the Toluca Lake section of Los Angeles. A producer of the hit ABC show says production will stop Wednesday because it has run out of scripts due to the writers strike.
Writer Matt Fusfeld uses a megaphone to lead chants as pickets march outside Twentieth Century-Fox studios in Los Angeles as the first strike by Hollywood writers against TV networks and movie studios in nearly two decades entered its second day Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007.
Tina Fey and other members of the Writers Guild of America picket NBC headquarters in New York on Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. The strike began Monday after daylong talks Sunday failed to produce an agreement on payment to writers from shows offered on the Internet. The strike is the first walkout by film and TV writers since 1988.
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus of CBS' "The New Adventures of Old Christine," lends her support to Writers Guild of America members as they picket Warner Brothers studios in Burbank, Calif., on the first day of the writers strike, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007.
A man with "writer." printed on the back of a t-shirt joins members of the Writers Guild of America, East picket Rockefeller Center, the headquarters of NBC, Nov. 5, 2007, in New York. The first strike by Hollywood writers in nearly 20 years got under way Monday with noisy pickets on both coasts. A 1988 work stoppage lasted 22 weeks, cost the industry more than $500 million.
Noise and other disruptions caused by a Hollywood writers' picket line stopped filming at a location along Ventura Blvd. near CBS Studios in the Studio City section of Los Angeles that was being used for the CBS show "Cane," Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. The shutdown came as about 20 writers chanted, screamed and used a bullhorn outside a cafe near the CBS lot.
Pulitzer Prize winning writer John Patrick Shanley, a member of the Writers Guild of America, pickets NBC headquarters in New York on Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Film and TV writers on both coasts are picketing for the first time since 1988.
Actor John Leguizamo and other members of the Writers Guild of America picket NBC headquarters in New York on Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Film and TV writers resolved to put down their pens and take up picket signs after last-ditch talks failed to avert a strike. The first strike by Hollywood writers in nearly 20 years threatens to disrupt everything from late-night talk shows to soap operas.
"30 Rock" writer Tina Fey and "SNL" writer Seth Meyers, members of the Writers Guild of America, picket NBC headquarters in New York on Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Film and TV writers resolved to put down their pens and take up picket signs after last-ditch talks failed to avert a strike.
"Saturday Night Live" cast member Amy Poehler, right, is joined by Saturday Night Live writer Steve Higgins, center, outside Rockefeller Center in New York for the first day of a strike by the Writers Guild of America, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007.
Actress Wanda Sykes protests in support of striking Hollywood writers outside of the Warner Brothers studio in Burbank, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2007. Writers Guild of America members went on strike at 12:01 a.m. after last-minute talks aimed at ending a standoff with studios collapsed.
Picketers march outside the entrance to Paramount Studios in Los Angeles as a strike by film and television writers got under way Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. The contract between the 12,000-member Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer expired Oct. 31. The strike is the first by Hollywood writers since 1988.
James L. Brooks, center, writer and producer of "The Simpsons," participates at a demonstration in front of the Fox studio in Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 5, 2007.