From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodessa Ackner, and this is The Business.

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes.

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at.

But prepare yourself for the brakes, check it out.

This week on the business, TV was already getting more and more into unscripted fare before the strike.

Now, there's so much reality programming, it's unreal.

We get the lay of the unscripted land with Joel McHale of E.

Entertainment's show, The Soup.

Plus, while most of the industry suffers, video games rock on.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

Go nowhere, it's the business from NPR.

So, how are things going between Hollywood's writers and producers?

Well, having previously dropped all demands that they be paid more

than the four cents they currently get for each DVD, the writers last Tuesday also dropped a demand

for jurisdiction over reality TV and animation work. And they promised not to pick it next month's

Grammy Awards. All this, just to get to the point where both sides could say that they would,

quote, begin informal discussions to determine if there is a basis for both parties to return

to formal negotiations. They added, quote, both the AMPTP and the WGA have agreed to make

no public comments about the informal discussions until those discussions have concluded.

In other words, Hollywood's writers and producers aren't officially talking yet.

They've only agreed to talk about restarting talks, and they won't be talking about those talks.

At least they've stopped talking trash.

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