Photo credit: actress Julia Louis- Dreyfus on the picket line; Reuters newsThese are dire times, Tubers. TV is shutting down, and it’s not pretty.
The writers whose names we’ve come to know through the years, and even those we don’t, have put down their pencils and picked up picket signs. Check out this explanation letter from the Writers Guild of America of what this strike means. It’s signed by many of our favorite show writers: Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy); David E. Kelley (Boston Legal); Greg Daniels (The Office); Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives) and a myriad of others.
The L.A. Times has a nifty chart listing the show titles and networks with how many episodes ahead each show has in the can. It gives you an idea of when your show will go off, if the writer’s strike isn’t resolved quickly.
The last writer’s strike was in 1988, ran 22 weeks and cost the industry an estimated $500 million. Let’s hope this one doesn’t last that long.
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