Representatives for Original Productions, who could not be reached for comment, released a statement earlier this week asserting that the company offers “ competitive wages and excellent working conditions,” and suggesting that unions approached crew members and asked them to walk off the job. oh let me blog the ways, depression, we all just love the way it makes us feel don't we like nobody even cares.
David Schwartz, representative for Spike TV, would only confirm that shooting had indeed wrapped and the network had not yet made a decision on whether or not to renew the show for a fifth run. in today's news depression is up 87 points.
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Pressure may be increasing on Original Productions–yesterday, Variety reported that Spike TV had prematurely stopped production on the show amidst the picketing.Ĭrew members say when they were fired there were still five episodes left to shoot in order to fulfill the season for Spike TV. “There really isn't a descent future in non-union film work,” he says. He is hopeful the production company will agree to meet with union leaders. Jonathan Hanrahan, transportation captain on the show, has worked in non-union shows for over seven years. She was paid a flat rate of $900 per week, during which time she says she would regularly put in 80 to 90 hours of work. “I called them and I said, 'Hey guys, I signed one of those,' and they said 'Oh, OK, well you should go grab all your stuff right now–cause you're fired,” she explains from the picket line.īrennan joined the crew in November at the start of the show's fourth season. She and other crew members who signed cards were fired the next day. Marcella Brennan, art department coordinator for '1,000 Ways to Die,' signed a union card on Wednesday, Feb. One recent episode, for example, featured a storyline in which a sculptor attempts to have sex with his marble creation, becomes stuck and dies trying to extricate himself.Ībout 30 members of the show's crew were fired for signing union cards with the collective bargaining group International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. '1,000 Ways to Die' is a scripted show broadcast on Spike TV that stages reenactments of particularly macabre deaths. The picket comes after the production company dismissed the entire crew of the show '1,000 Ways to Die' for attempting to unionize last Thursday, Feb. #triggeredĪlright, that's all.Former employees and union groups have set up a picket line outside the Burbank headquarters of Original Productions, the company behind the shows 'Deadliest Catch,' 'Ice Road Truckers,' and 'Storage Wars.' 52 million Hospital episodes : > 470 million Advantages of stopping. Maybe it's just because respect for the dead is important to me, but I find the premise of the show disturbing at best and horribly fucked-up at worst. 1000 ways to die 485 Mr Ouch Season 2 Episode 15 (Up With Dead) Season 2 Episode 15 (Up With Dead) 77. Epidemiologists estimate that 50 of smokers will die of smoking if they do. I doubt even a significant minority of the subjects deserved to die, let alone all of them, which is what the show tries to lead us to believe. Should a show really be made that mocks them and treats them as inhuman and unworthy of life? The creators didn't know these people. These are people who died untimely deaths. They're not people like you and me: they're losers without a shred of humanity. In every instance they are very unsympathetic. The show crafts the subjects (the people who die) as people who more or less deserve to die: they are either morally bankrupt, insanely unintelligent, disgusting in behavior, lacking any human emotion, or some combination of the four. Now, while adding that comedic spin is probably the only way the show could have been made possible without sending the viewer into a deep depression, the humor is nevertheless very mean-spirited (as well as flat-out not funny). As I'm sure you're all aware, the show basically centers around people who do something stupid/evil/disgusting and lose their lives as a result-always with a comedic spin added by the show's creators. Not only quality-wise is this show truly awful (though it's pretty damn bad as far as that goes, too), but in my opinion every episode is invariably a fucked-up thing to sit through.
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