I haven’t talked much about the TV/film writers strike…actually, I haven’t talked about it at all. This seems strange considering how TV-centric my life is, but until recently our DVR was full of television and the thought of any sort of viewing drought wasn’t at the forefront of my mind. Sort of like two years ago, when we would just let the faucets run 10 hours a day and water our lawn fifteen times a week…because we could…and then the next year the City of Allen restricted our water. Haters!

However, now that I’ve read some of my favorite shows have shut down production or are getting close to that point…I have to wonder what sort of impact this will have on the rest of the ‘07-’08 TV season. By my estimation, the writers aren’t too antsy to get this resolved as after they officially went on strike a couple of days ago, the two sides weren’t scheduled to get together again until next Monday. Hell, my ops management team is getting together more often than that…and we have the fate of a fake production plan at stake!

Honestly, I think this is all just a big, hyper-developed plan to get K-Ville off the schedule without having to actually cancel it. Because really, what sort of mean society would cancel a lousy show about the rebirth of New Orleans post-Katrina? Haters!

The strike is actually starting to hit me and CU very hard, as we recently started watching The Colbert Report on a nightly basis and now…well, we’re stuck without. Plus…now there are rumors Lost’s already-abbreviated season could become even more abbreviatedier. Hey, if Colbert (or his writers, heh) can say “gutly,” I can say “abbreviatedier.”

What if this thing drags out? What can you do? Well, here’s Snarkwife’s Guide to Surviving the ‘07-’08 Writers Strike:

• Take this opportunity to reformat/defrag the hard drive on your Tivo, DVR or Slingbox.
• Dust off those television scripts you’ve been holding onto for years, saying Hollywood already has enough scripts to last a zillion years, and mail ‘em into the TV exec of your choice.
• Start watching the myriad quality “reality” programming out there such as The Real Housewives of Orange County, Project Runway, and The Hills (wait, they have writers).
• Create a “Writers Strike Refugee” league over at Fafarazzi because really, with all of the free time these TV stars will have…they’re likely to start getting into trouble after a couple more weeks, right?
• Relive the glory of your youth with repeats of The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie, every morning on The Hallmark Channel! Can you imagine how awesome that line-up would be if they’d just add Eight is Enough?
• Enlist in the military.
• Sit down and think…where was I, and what was I doing during the last writers strike? How did I make it through? I was seventeen, so I’m pretty sure it involved trigonometry, my princess phone and…nail polish.