On November 13th, this blog and the blogs listed below will be on strike for the day in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America. As fellow writers and as TV fans, we are coming together to express our strong support for the writers and their goals. We believe that when a writer’s work makes money for a company, that writer deserves to be paid.

Many writers depend on residuals for a stable income, and that income shouldn’t be based on an outdated formula which ignores the existence of new media and all but a tiny percentage of DVD sales. The talented writers responsible for so much of what we love about television should and must be paid fairly and equitably, and we will stand with them until they reach that goal. For everyone’s sake, and for the sake of television, we hope both sides can come to an agreement quickly.

To further that goal, we are calling on our readers to sign this petition and to contact the following television networks, voicing support for the writers and for a return to the negotiating table:

ABC

500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 460-7777

FOX

10201 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310) 369-1000

CBS

7800 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 575-2345

NBC / Universal

100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
(818) 777-1000

After the blackout, we intend to continue our campaign to support the WGA until the dispute has been resolved fairly. Since we will not be posting any new content on the 13th, we encourage our readers to visit United Hollywood instead for frequent updates about the strike.

In solidarity,

Daemon’s TV
Ducky Does TV
Gabby Babble
Give Me My Remote
Glowy Box
I am a TV Junkie
Mikey Likes TV
Pass the Remote
The Pie Maker
Ramblings of a TV Whore
Seriously? OMG! WTF?
Silly Pipe Dreams
Tapeworthy
Televisionary
TiFaux
The TV Addict
Tube Talk
Watch with Intelligence

Monty, the lab pup at Daily Puppy, wanted to ask nicely for you to vote in the Weblog Awards. It’s the last day to vote — polls close at 5 p.m.

Best Week Ever mulls the consequences of a continued writers’ strike.

I don’t know how to make this any easier. Vote for TiFaux directly on our site!

Hey guys! Voting is now open for the 2007 Weblog awards!

You can vote for TiFaux in the Best Culture Blog category once every 24 hours through Nov. 8.

So do it! Tell your friends and lovers! Inscribe it on the doorposts of your home!

So, guess what?

For the second year in a row, TiFaux has been nominated for a Weblog Award! Heck yes!

We’re nominated in the Best Culture Blog category, just like last year. Click the above link to see who else is nominated (I can’t wait to have our asses handed to us by Pop Candy again).

Voting is scheduled to begin tonight (say wha!). We’ll keep you posted.

Recently, TiFaux was asked to participate in a Fall TV Preview with a number of other bloggers including our pals Vance and Liz. The whole shebang was hosted by The TV Addict and Tapeworthy.

Now let me begin my defense — you’ll see a lot of N/As in our column. All I can say is I did my best to procure sneak previews of the fall season (the good folks at CBS are the only ones who sent me screeners) on a somewhat short notice. But we got about a third of ‘em, and I figure that’s okay.

I was pretty severe on the comedies (I’m a little baffled that not everyone hated Aliens in America as much as me), although I was feeling weirdly merciful in giving Big Bang Theory a 2.

LEGEND
1 – Don’t waste your time unless you find According to Jim funny
2 – Not great but at least doesn’t offend me.
3 – Fun to watch if nothing else is on.
4 – Has potential. Worth a second look.
5 – Set your TiVo to Season’s Pass!
N/A – Haven’t watched yet.

If you’d like to check out the Web sites of the other participants, here they are: BuzzSugar, DaemonsTV, DuckyDoesTV, GiveMeMyRemote, GlowyBox, MikeyLikesTV, ScooterMcGavin, SillyPipeDreams, Seat42f, TapeWorthy, theTVaddict and TubeTalk

Since we’re doing this whole Friends of the Faux thing and we’re all coming together in the spirit of television, community and e-stalking, I thought it would also be a good idea to give TiFaux a MySpace presence.

I don’t really know what will happen there. Perhaps there will be a bulletin if we do something that’s particularly awesome. Perhaps we’ll post some exclusive content. Worst case scenario, you can just artificially inflate your friend number.

So, go ahead and visit us at www.myspace.com/tifaux. Add us so we don’t have to add you.

Oh, I doubt anyone’s posting tomorrow (Monday). Hopefully you don’t have to work either. If you do, you should really quit. Like, seriously.

I haven’t talked to anyone else about this, but we’re all probably going to take a blogging snooze tomorrow. Well, I am at least. Probably going to go rent a canoe on the Potomac (I’m serious), go to a BBQ and then try to avoid going to see the fireworks on the national mall.

I don’t like crowds.

Anyway, I tried to find a clip of 30 Rock’s salute to fireworks, but no luck. I did find, however, a montage of scenes centering around that subplot where Jenna is trying to prove she loves the troops. For the record, the part of this clip that starts at 3:45 is why I love Tina Fey.

Happy Fourth![kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/7QCfpHsI-WM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

 Here’s a fun graph from your webmaster:

These are our daily “unique visitor” stats since March 1st. I’ve removed the numbers so you can’t tell how popular we really are. Notice the fairly stable traffic pattern leading up to all hell breaking loose. It was fun to hit ridiculous single-day records like on April 11, but it’s nice to see the numbers going back down. We’re still getting hits (and votes. sigh…) on the tournament pages but things should be back to normal soon. I hope a few of you out there were lured in by our tournament honey pot and stuck around for the incisive and witty commentary you found on the rest of the site. But for the majority of the tournament commenters, don’t let the electronic door hit your avatar’s ass on the way out.

It was really fascinating to see the fervor that certain fans had. Once we turned on IP logging I assumed cheaters would give up. But people actually went through the trouble of using proxy servers to fool our software into thinking they were a different computer. I know some of you consider that cheating, but honestly if you’re that dedicated to making sure Michael Vartan makes it to the next round, your vote should be counted more than once. I mean, it’s not like anything was actually at stake here. We just wanted to have some fun.

And there will be more fun in the future. I’m going to work on ways to add more interactive features like the Tournament, and there will certainy be more tournaments of different kinds. Maybe the next one will be designed to be less appealing to 14-year-old girls.

The best thing about this whole process: it was our highest-grossing month ever! Not that any of our new visitors bought a shirt or anything, but quite a few of you clicked on our lovely contextual advertisements. We might actually get paid by Google this year!