Actor Steve Carrell has refused to cross the picket lines, so production has stopped on The Office. And writers and cast posted a YouTube clip (below) that pokes fun at the studio. “We’re supposed to get paid 11 cents for every 200 trillion downloads (on iTunes),” jokes Greg Daniels, showrunner for The Office. On a serious note, Daniels goes on to explain that the staff wrote webisodes — which won a daytime Emmy — and “they apparently won’t even pony up the 28 bucks or so it costs to buy an actual Emmy.”
By the way, LATimes.com has a grid illustrating which shows are going into repeats.
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