Originally Posted By Disneyland55 I am surprised this is not already a topic. I checked world events as well just to make sure it was not already brought up. Soon, many of the shows that we come here to discuss will no longer be airing new epidodes. Last time this happened, the strike lasted 22 weeks. I have heard that most new shows will simply be cancelled. I hope this does not happen to Pushing Daisies or Big Bang Theory... I am so not a fan of unions. They were needed long ago, but in my opinion they are no longer needed today in most cases.
Originally Posted By DAR Usually I have hard time gaining sympathy for anytype of unions like the pick your pro sport or entertainment union. But I will say without writers Hollywood would cease to exist.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd I would post a response, but my writers are on strike so for the remainder of the week my posts will be reruns.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Well, considering that shows like TAR and Survivor are pre recorded, they should be fine. It's shows like CSI and Desperate Housewives that I'm concerned about.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I have a hard time finding sympathy for anyone that strikes wearing $300 outfits and carrying a $10 cup of coffee. Writers: get off your collective lazy butts and get back to work doing the job you already agreed to do. Bunch of greedy bastards. Speaking of Desperate Housewives, they showed the head writer for that show and it certainly explains a lot.
Originally Posted By DAR Look I'm not going to show a lot of sympathy for people earning close to $200,000 a year to "make up things". But I will say that a show like Lost or Heroes that rake in a ton of money from ad revenue, dvd sales, books, potential movie spinoffs for the networks, none of that money goes to the writers. It all gets kicked up to the bigwigs. The creators and writers should be able to see at least a little bit of that money.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut Why? They took the job knowing what they would get paid. Their contract never said anything about profit sharing.
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall Desperate Housewives, along with about 8 others, have decided to take their hiatus in support of the writers and not even show the episodes that are in the can. 24 will skip out on this season in order to show the entire season without a break. LOST has decided to air the first 8 episodes with a mini cliffhanger (then show the rest either in the fall before the feb 09 start that was planned like the feb 08 start). Should be interesting. The writers' strike is affecting everyone from the actors (who aren't getting paid- not that they need it) down to the crews who really don't make that much money and some will even be fired. It's interesting how things are and will pan out.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut So what your saying is that Lost really isnt changing its typical showing schedule? lol As far as what is going to happen. There are plenty of college drop outs trying to be "writers". Hire replacements and put the whining brats on the picket lines out on their butts. I liked how Jay Leno was out there supporting them. I mean who is going to write his un-humerous jokes now? Oh wait, a 3 year old could write better material.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut but people are acting like the writers on strike are the only people that can think stuff up. Just hire more people. I guarantee the HR departments of the studios have stacks of applications and resumes from people trying to get into the industry. Start making some calls. <<If it's not for the writers 99% of what's produced doesn't get made.>> Well that is the first good part about the strike. The stupid shows will be off the air soon.
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall <<<<Well that is the first good part about the strike. The stupid shows will be off the air soon.>>>> Yeah, another thing that has been mentioned is the new, less popular shows that haven't already been cancelled are going to get the axe, so good on that!
Originally Posted By sunNrainfall A friend of mine works over there WBR and says it's nuts over in Burbank, every driveway and entrance to every studio is flooded with strikers.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad This isn't going to effect Hannah Montanna is it? Seriously, it has taken me almost 10 years to get over the last MLB baseball players strike and return as a fan. What ever happened to honor and integrity? Am I understanding correctly that these writers knowingly accepted these jobs with no proftis coming to them from those types of sales that were mentioned? That is to say, they knew what they were getting into from the start? Does this strike effect movie writers too?
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Somehow a writers strike seems less dangerous than say a steel workers strike. I wouldn't cross the picket lines to get into work at a Pittsburg steel mill in 1965, but come on....are writers going to hit you over the head or over turn your car? I'm not saying steel workers did that back in the day, but you know, the writers have written that sort of thing into plenty of movies... hummm...maybe they are dangerous.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I hope they get what they deserve, and this thing ends soon, I am a complete Grey's Anatomy addict.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut <<Am I understanding correctly that these writers knowingly accepted these jobs with no proftis coming to them from those types of sales that were mentioned? That is to say, they knew what they were getting into from the start?>> They took a job and agreed to a wage. But because someone else is making more money they feel they deserve more money without putting in any extra work. thats a kindergarten attitude. They need to get over themselves.
Originally Posted By DAR No the problem is the studio executives are taking all the credit. Let's say this. Someone creates a new type of wrench and wants to have Sears sell it. So Sears starts to sell it and this wrench just flies off the shelves. Now the inventor of this wrench gets a portion of the profits from this wrench as people continue to buy this from each Sears store. Now years later not only can you buy this wrench by going directly to Sears, you can also buy it over the internet. The executives at Sears decide that this great, another way to make money. But they tell the inventor, you can still make some money the old way we've been selling this wrench, but we're going to keep everything from the new way it's being sold. Now with the writers, they just want a small percentage of what's being sold from "new media" internet downloads, video on demand and such. With that I agree with the writers.
