Ellen DeGeneres Cares For Dogs More Than The Writers Guild Of America
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when writers get up from the table and leave. The show might be going on for Ellen DeGeneres, but as the fifth full day of the Writers Guild of America walkout drew to a close Friday, the prospects for ringing in the New Year with fresh scripted programming continued to diminish. DeGeneres, who took Monday off, then continued to tape her syndicated chatfest, minus a monologue, was back on the air Friday amid an outpouring of dismay from the New York-based WGA East, which vowed to protest when her show tapes in the Big Apple on Nov.19-20 and urged her to stop showing up for work this minute. "On her first show back, Ellen said she loves and supports her writers, but her actions prove otherwise," the WGAE said in a statement Friday. "We certainly intend to let Ellen know our dissatisfaction in person if she decides to proceed with the shows she has scheduled in New York…We find it sad that Ellen spent an entire week crying and fighting for a...