14 Nov
From this past Sunday’s New York Times…Lost writer and co-creator Damon Lindelof:
If this strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television will end this December. No dramas. No comedies. No “Daily Show.†The strike will also prevent any pilots from being shot in the spring, so even if the strike is settled by then, you won’t see any new shows until the following January. As in 2009. Both the guild and the studios we are negotiating with do agree on one thing: this situation would be brutal.
Nah…we’ll be fine. Once American Idol picks up and stretches everything out into five evenings a week, and Marie Osmond’s non-union variety show premieres in February…the world will tilt back into balance.
But, here’s the grid of what’s completed and what’s in jeopardy…and personally, I’m waiting for Farmer Wants a Wife or as I’m calling it, The Bachelor: Why Buy The Cow When Some Chick In a Bikini Will Milk It For Free?
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Okay, this is my prediction. The strike will be resolved around Christmas, a slight delay in getting after holiday episodes back on line, which the glut AI startup epis will cover fairly well.
The writers want a peice of the internet pie, the netword have no idea what that pie looks like, or how much it will be, so the term of the new contract will be short-term.
I’ll write an ITYS post in January.