Reality-TV writers sue Fox

[question everything]

Reality-TV writers sue Fox

Gary Gentile, Associated Press
LA Daily News

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hollywood writers have sued Fox Broadcasting and the producer of such reality shows as "Joe Millionaire," charging the companies with violating California's labor laws covering payment of wages, overtime and meal breaks.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, is the second filed with assistance from the Writers Guild of America, west, which is trying to pressure producers to agree to an industrywide contract with those who "write" the supposedly unscripted shows.

The latest suit was filed on behalf of 10 writers and editors and is seeking class status.

The suit claims that Fox and Rocket Science Laboratories, the producer of seven reality shows on Fox, required employees to falsify time cards, failed to pay overtime and routinely required plaintiffs to work 12 hours a day or more.

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http://www2.dailynews.com/business/ci_2970410

[walldude]

1. Writers? You mean reality shows aren't real?

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you..:wow:

[Neocondriac]

2. Why I ought ta !

You mean Amorosa isn't a complete bitch!

[Tyranny_R_US]

4. Why the nerve of them!

You mean Omarosa is a true blue democrat and she's single???

(*stamps hind leg and howls*)

[donsu]

3. reality shows provide an important view of americans

yes, some reality shows are silly and pointless. but even these shows point up truths about american life.

MANY of the many reality shows are vital ways of seeing ourselves here in the land of the free and the brave.

sometimes the truth is hard to take, but necessary.