Pickets Outside Tyler Perry Studios!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:27 pm

PRODUCER TYLER PERRY REPORTEDLY FIRES CREW OF BLACK WRITERS.... HIRES A NEW HEAD WRITER WHO'S WHITE!!!!!!!

Scandal hits the most prolific Black filmmaker in history. MediaTakeOut.com just learned that Tyler Perry is heaped in the midst of quite a scandal. According to a person close to one of Tyler's former writers, Tyler fired a number of black writers for his TV show House Of Payne. Here's what the insider told us:

TYLER PERRY just fired his whole staff of black writers in Los Angeles....over the phone...the writers of HOUSE OF PAYNE were unceremoniously FIRED by ROGER BOB from ATL office

The new head writer is WHITE and the most inexperienced on the crew...so much for black empowerment...these are the same souls who slaved over his 100 episodes in one year.

Now that the show is on FOX, all of their hard work is rewarded with a ticket straight to the unemployment line...what happened to Christian values and black empowerment?

Wow, that's quite a charge. And while MediaTakeOut.com can't say for certain what's really going on - we can report that something is definitely poppin' off on the set. Here's what the NY Times reported yesterday:

The Writers Guild of America West said Thursday that it had filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against Tyler Perry's production studio after it fired four writers for the popular TBS situation comedy, "House of Payne" who were seeking union representation.

Jeff Hermanson, an assistant executive director for the Writers Guild, said that the four writers, who were based in Los Angeles, were fired earlier this week after negotiations between the Writers Guild and representatives of Mr. Perry's production company, which is based in Atlanta, broke down.

The four writers also were working on the development of a new comedy being produced by Mr. Perry, "Meet the Browns," a spinoff of his recent film of the same name that is scheduled to premiere in January on TBS. The four writers who were fired include more than half of the seven writers working on the new series.