WGA Strike: The Reasons and Import, From the Writers. |
| Published: November 8, 2007, 1:14 pm |
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Regular viewers of late-night television will immediately notice the disappearance of their favorite shows, but television dramas and comedies, whose scripts are written well in advance, will continue to appear as programmed for weeks if not months to come. Movies, which often take two years to produce, will arrive in the multiplex as scheduled for at least the next year. So says the Los Angeles Times. If the situation doesn't get resolved by then, things are gonna get iffy. The Writer's Guild of America strike is still raging, shutting down more than a few TV shows and film projects in L.A. and elsewhere. If film and TV nerds look hard enough, coverage on the strike has been available online, sure--but considering what a big deal the strike is, not only for Hollywood but for entertainment as a whole, it's still kind of weird that it hasn't been mentioned that much by TV channels or movie studios. (Hmm. Wonder why that is.) For the complete lowdown on the strike and why it's [ Full article ] |
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