November 5, 2007

Shows Suffer as Writers Go On Strike

Posted by ExtraTV Staff on November 5, 2007 9:25 AM

The writers’ strike is on and late-night talk shows and primetime comedies may be the first to suffer.

“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “Saturday Night Live” are scheduled to go off-air. “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” will go dark, as well.

Many shows, like the “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Two and a Half Men” and “Back to You,” are expected to go into repeats.

Daytime’s soap operas have enough scripts to last for the next few months, but if the strike continues past that, production will come to a halt.

The Writers Guild of America has gone on strike to demand residuals for shows and movies streamed to the Internet and to cellphones. Writers are also demanding payments from home video sales. But producers have balked at those requests, insisting that it’s too early to set payments for online shows because technology is constantly changing.

Protests are expected all over Los Angeles and New York today.


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On 6 Feb 2008, Someone wrote:

I can’t believe they are punishing the people who are in love with these shows for this?? They are going to loose viewers if they do not get the shows back on air ! ! I mean seriously come on its not like you people in hollywood have no dam money give the writers some money they do work hard and get these shows back on air NOW ! ! !
 
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On 13 Nov 2007, Brooke wrote:

I do not want them to go on strike because I love house and Heroes and Grey’s Anatomy and all those great shows. Just give the writers their deserved money. They have a hard job too. Can you come with these amazing story lines that they do? I know I can’t.
 
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On 8 Nov 2007, Anonymous wrote:

I agree that the money they want should be taken out of the celebrity paychecks…celebrities do not need to make all that money and they can share some of it with the people that pretty much give them their job…without writeres there wouldn’t be shows. I hope that networks don’t try and charge for episodes that are shown online because if I miss an episode of one of my favorite shows…I can count on the internet to be able to watch it and I really don’t want to pay to do that! It would be the most stupid thing to do. Also, writers chose to attend college for writing all by themselves. So where in their career decision making did they not research their average wage? Why fight about it now? If they wanted more money why the hell didn’t they become a doctor or something with power?? I don’t have anything against the writers…I mean you gotta do what you gotta do and they are great at what they do but I want my shows back on with new episodes soon!
 
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On 8 Nov 2007, tanika wrote:

well they should take the millions of dollars that the celebrities command for each movie thet are in and give it to the writers instead. there wouldnt be any movies if there were not any writers. and one celebrity has the nerve to say that they dont want to go into the christmas season without a paycheck that is the most insulting thing they could say. its not like there scraping for money they have money by the millions just live off of that.
 
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On 6 Nov 2007, George Jobson wrote:

As a critic and a writer I’m calling for a settlement and to end this strike. Not only it’s going to hurt the entertainment industry, but it will hurt me as well. One example, I watch “Heroes” every Monday night at 9:00 pm without fail. If the strike lasted longer, I won’t be able to watch the show again until next fall. I’m not going to stand there and accept this. I’m going to speak out and urge people to speak up against the strike. It’s wrong and it’s going to hurt everybody. I’m calling for a settlement in the Writers Guild strike and return to work at once. I’m not asking, I’m demanding. calling on a settlement and let’s return to work, before more damage has been done.
 
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On 6 Nov 2007, George Jobson wrote:

As a critic and a writer I’m calling for a settlement and to end this strike. Not only it’s going to hurt the entertainment industry, but it will hurt me as well. One example, I watch “Heroes” every Monday night at 9:00 pm without fail. If the strike lasted longer, I won’t be able to watch the show again until next fall. I’m not going to stand there and accept this. I’m going to speak out and urge people to speak up against the strike. It’s wrong and it’s going to hurt everybody. I’m calling for a settlement in the Writers Guild strike and return to work at once. I’m not asking, I’m demanding. calling on a settlement and let’s return to work, before more damage has been done.
 
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