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What Happens To Summer TV Binges If Hollywood Writers Strike (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: There also should be plenty of new video fare if Hollywood's writers and studios can't agree on a new contract by Monday. The beautiful thing about a contract is everyone knows when it ends. In this case, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents some 350 production companies, and the Writers Guild of America, which comprises 12,000 professionals in two chapters, have had three years to prepare for a standoff. In these situations, show makers typically rush to complete a pile of scripts before the deadline. Jerry Nickelsburg, an economist at the University of California at Los Angeles, calls this stockpiling "the inventory effect." This is precisely what happened the last time writers walked off the job, from November 2007 to February 2008. If the writers do, in fact, go through with the strike they approved on Monday, jokes and soaps will be the first things to take a hit. Late-night talk shows and soap operas are to entertainment writers what delis are to hungry New Yorkers -- a daily frenzy of high-volume production. If the sandwich makers don't show up, everybody gets hungry quickly.
How did I get to the TMZ website?! I thought I was on Slashdot! This is so weird. The site looks like Slashdot, but the stories are mindless crap about TV shows and pop culture.
Mommy or daddy will have to watch over you to make sure you don't run out into the street.. Also so that no one can accused them of being bad parents for letting you play unsupervised. This isn't the 1970's.
Hire new writers, and stop getting recycled retreads of movies that have been done three (or more) times before?
I mean, how many Fast N Furious movies are we at? 8 ? ....
How many Star Wars Movies?
How many Superman/batman/thor/wolverine/xmen
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I stopped watching TV 20+ years ago. Don't miss it. If I'm interested in a TV series, I got iTunes, Netflix or Hulu.
Wait, you stopped watching TV 20 years ago, and replaced it with watching TV?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?