Making Nice

After 100 days, film delays, a TV season in disarray, countless headlines--It's back to work for Hollywood:

It's official: WGA strike is over

The writers strike has officially ended. The WGA announced early Tuesday evening that members voted to lift the strike order with a 92.5% endorsement.

The Writers Guild of America members will next vote by mail and at membership meetings on Feb. 25 to ratify their tentative three-year contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers

"Our membership has voted, and writers can go back to work,"

WGA West president Patric Verrone announced during a presser. Adding:

"This was not a strike we wanted, but one we had to conduct in order to win jurisdiction and establish appropriate residuals for writing in new media and on the Internet. Those advances now give us a foothold in the digital age. Rather than being shut out of the future of content creation and delivery, writers will lead the way as TV migrates to the Internet and platforms for new media are developed."

A joint statement signed by the Hollywood CEOs was also released.

"This is a day of relief and optimism for everyone in the entertainment industry," it read.

"We can now all get back to work, with the assurance that we have concluded two groundbreaking labor agreements — with our directors and writers — that establish a partnership through which our business can grow and prosper in the new digital age."

CEOs weigh in with official thanks...

The LA Times already published its thoughts on The WGA strike's winners and losers yesterday...

I'll have more to say on the strike and its immediate aftermath in the coming days...

For now--I'm just glad it's over...