Just in case you were looking for some cheery news to take with you into the weekend, contract talks between the Writers Guild and the studios ended for the week with these encouraging words from the AMPTP: "We have had six across-the-table sessions and have been met with only silence and stonewalling from the WGA leadership. We have attempted to engage on major issues, but no dialogue has been forthcoming from the WGA leadership. This is the most frustrating and futile attempt at bargaining that anyone on the AMPTP negotiating team has encountered in guild negotiation history. The WGA leadership apparently has no intention to bargain in good faith. The WGA leadership is hidebound to strike. We are farther apart today than when we started, and the only outcome we see is a disaster engineered by the present leadership of the WGA." At least they stopped short of telling the WGA membership they should head to CostCo to start stockpiling the canned peaches and bottled water they'll need to survive the coming apocalypse. Happy Friday! [TV Week]