From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Browdessa 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, an unusually candid conversation about race in the writer's room.

We'll talk to a white writer about her

experiences working on a black sitcom. Then we'll examine some of the issues raised by

that conversation under the microscope of a new diversity report from the Writers Guild

West. But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan. No, it's not your agent calling. It's

the business from NPR.

Listen carefully, Grasshop.

We begin the caravan with a Hollywood co-on.

If you have the rights to make a Terminator film,

but you don't have Arnold Schwarzenegger or James Cameron,

what do you have?

The Halcyon Company is betting that the answer is a new Terminator franchise.

Halcyon is a privately funded company recently formed by entrepreneurs Victor Cubasek and Derek Anderson.

They acquired the rights to produce new Terminator films last week.

What Cubasek and Anderson do have is a script by T3 writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris and the hope of releasing Terminator 4 in the summer of

2009. Who will fill the shoes of director Cameron and star Schwarzenegger? One would have to

travel to the future and then back again to the present to know. And if you think I'm willing

to wake up naked in the middle of L.A. again to find out, you're wrong. Meanwhile, as science

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