By Stone Martindale Nov 14, 2007, 17:18 GMT
Ellen DeGeneres will not be bringing her syndicated talk show to NYC next week as planned.
Ellen Degeneres - © Lee Roth / RothStock / PR Photos
Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood reports that Ellen is taping her TBS special tomorrow night in Las Vegas and was supposed to catch a plane immediately afterwards for Gotham.
The Ellen Degeneres Show was planning to tape in NYC next Monday and Tuesday, November 19th and 20th.
Ellen is both a member a the WGA and AFTRA, which elicited a stern letter from the Writers Guild Of America East who issued the statement last Friday headlined "Ellen Is Not Welcome In NY."
The guild had pledged to "certainly let Ellen know our dissatisfaction in person if she decides to proceed with the shows she has scheduled [and] make our voices heard the preceding week if she tries to pre-tape comedy segments on location."
Writers who are picketing and others critical of Degeneres have been vocal in their displeasure. Finke writes of a dispute between the WGA East and AFTRA "with Ellen smack in the middle because she went back on the air after honoring only one day of the writers strike."
According to Finke : "Ellen said she supports her writers but returned to work because of a) her crew and b) her company, which ordered her to, and c)a no-strike clause in her AFTRA contract."
The writers guild scolded Ellen for not making an "act of individual conscience".
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