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Sergio's Scary Spooky Halloween Special!

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infoMania: Best clips from the week of 10.29.09

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OZZY VS. BLACK SABBATH - SKULL SESSIONS PODCAST #29

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Ozzy Osbourne describes moment he bit head off bat

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OZZY CAN WRITE?

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Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train 7 Year Old Guitarist

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Ozzy Osbourne, a Chimp and new cell phone

The prince of darkness is back

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Ozzy 'Devastated' As Pet Dog Eaten By Coyote

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Ozzy Sues Tony Iommi

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Ozzy Osbourne to guest on new Slash album

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Kelly and Ozzy: Osbournes Reloaded

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Top Ten Dysfunctional Families of All Time

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Ozzy Osbourne's World of Warcraft advert

What's your f**king game?

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WGA to writers: Avoid Ozzy's new show

WGA leaders warned members Wednesday that working on the Osbourne clan's new comedy-variety show on Fox could put their membership with the guild on shaky ground.

At issue with the WGA is the show's producers, FremantleMedia North America, who according to the union offered a "sub-standard contract" asking that writers be treated as if they were working on "half-scripted" shows, which would greatly reduce their writing fees.

The writing on the show, which has a working title "The Osbournes: Loud and Dangerous," would traditionally be covered under the guild's basic agreement, used in the past for such shows as "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Laugh-In," according to WGA West president Patric Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship. But Fremantle, according to the WGA, wanted to treat other portions of the show as "reality content," which would not be covered. Fremantle indicated it would be responsible for writing that part of the show. The WGA refused.

This isn't the first Fremantle show the WGA has had issues with.

While some shows produced by Fremantle have been covered by the guild contract, there are many others, including "American Idol" and "The Price Is Right," that are not covered by the WGA contract. Over the summer, the WGA went on a bus tour, dubbed the American Idol Truth Tour, which followed the show's auditions all over the U.S. and Puerto Rico, talking with the public about what they claim are substandard working conditions for writers and other behind-the-scenes employees.

"Now it is clear that Fremantle's intention is to bring their low-cost, nonunion business model into traditional genres -- first games shows, then comedy-variety," the letter states. "Soon, no WGA-covered writing will be safe from their aggressive undermining of our contract. We cannot allow this encroachment to continue."

Fremantle's David Shall, general counsel and executive vp of business operations, accused the WGA of continuing a campaign of "defamation and negative propaganda" against the company. The WGA, Shall said, was contacted in good faith by Fremantle with the hopes of hiring WGA writers for the "nontraditional" Osbourne show, which mixes variety with reality TV.

"Unfortunately, after only a few phone conversations with our representatives, the guild chose to end discussion, ordered its membership to not write for the show and implemented their usual mendacious strategy of feeding misleading and erroneous information to the press," Shall wrote. "We are disappointed that our effort to meet the guild halfway has been summarily rejected and, as such, we don't believe the guild's membership has been served."

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