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Just when you started to get comfortable with the idea that TV = reality shows , it looks like scripted programming may be back, sooner rather than later. The Hollywood writers’ strike, which by some estimates has sucked $2 billion from the industry, may end early this week.

Union leaders have already okayed a deal with the studios, and workers could get back on the job soon, once the membership holds a vote that could end the three-months-old strike. The unanimous approval of the deal by the governing bodies of the Writers Guild of America came a day after the union and studios finalized details of a settlement hinging on how much writers should be paid for work distributed over the Internet.
(Reuters) (Hollywood Reporter)

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• Samsung Electronics hopes to have a phone based on Google’s Android mobile phone software platform by early next year. (Reuters)
• Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama beat Bill Clinton in a contest almost as closely watched as the primaries being waged across the United States — the music industry’s Grammy Awards. (Reuters)

Speaking of the Grammys…

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