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Will the writer's strike eventually bring about the end of entertainment as we know it?

Juno and No Country for Old Men won the top film prizes at the WGA Awards this year, while The Wire, 30 Rock, and Mad Men took television series honors.

Screenwriters in the area of film and television will be honored on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at the Writers Guild of America West 2008 Awards Luncheon.

The three-month old WGA strike ended on Tuesday by a 92.5% vote. Over 15,000 WGA members are expected to return back to work Wednesday.

On February 12, the Writers Guild of Amerca finally came to an agreement on a deal to end the three-month strike.

ABC and CBS are discouraging network stars from appearing on rival NBC's The Jay Leno Show, even to promote their shows. Fox and HBO encourage their stars to appear.

The upcoming Writer's Guild strike is gonna be nasty. But WGA's insistence that current and future members can't work on animated films has other unions steamed.

Since the 1st Academy Awards in 1929 nearly 250 Oscars have been given to screenwriters. Of those awards approx. 9% have been for films written or co-written by women.