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wotd say?

cos i would have 2 w8 until 9pm in the uk and i have got anada 5hrs 2 go still!!!

additionally, from the recent article the producer of DMG had stated that they have not started shooting yet 4 nu episodes...2dy 2pm (india tym) they had to call off the shooting cos the the workers were not ready to sign d contract!!!!!! even the producer is fustrated and wants d issues between the producers and d workers to b settled so they can resume shooting!

New episodes from next week

After the ending of all the assorted strikes in the TV industry, you will finally get to watch your serials from next week.

No new episodes will be ready for screening this week, though work on all serials has begun in earnest across Mumbai.

"We have agreed to the workers' demand of having one-on-one contracts," said producer Dheeraj Kumar, who was negotiating with the unions, "this means that a worker will have a contract directly with the production house.

The producers also agreed to hike salaries by between 10 and 15 per cent of current salaries. "This is how today we have begun shooting for all the shows," he said, "however telecast of fresh episodes will be possible only next week onwards."

He said that negotiating concluded with compromises all around.

"The issue was finally sorted after we had asked various worker unions to have a word with their striking members," he said, "we wanted to start shoots as soon as we could and we had gone two weeks without any shoots at all. We had to face a loss and each production house lost at least Rs 50 lakh for each week of the strike."

The channels, he speculated, lost at least Rs 30 crore each or more. Now that the chaos appears to have ended, viewers have only one more week of reruns to go.

The blackout of fresh episodes began on November 9 and was expected to end in a week. However the strike prolonged in the face of a hardening of position by the unions and their members which led to the producers finally agreeing to hike wages.

Sonali Joshi, Hill Road Media | Monday, November 24, 2008

i miss him ... hope they air ASAP...