Sunday, October 28, 2007
Screenwriters move closer to strike
MarketWatch: "Hollywood screenwriters and the producers who employ them have suspended their labor negotiations until Tuesday, leaving only two days of talks before a key contract deadline, the writers' union said."
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After reading an article about this in the latest Entertainment Weekly, what scares me most about this strike is definitely the fate of television. Although TV will probably be OK through February sweeps, after this it looks like reality shows might become even more numerous. In a year where I've really started to get hooked on a lot of different television shows, this could not be coming at a worse possible time. Hopefully this situation will dissolve once the near-inevitable strike happens, and it will dissolve quickly.
It will be interesting to see what this does for television future. We may be seeing some re-runs in February, but also what will happen if scripted shows become more expensive to produce. Do we really need more reality shows...
i'm really split on this subject. While i completely understand the importance of unions and the purpose they serve, i am getting a little annoyed with what some of the unions are protesting over. a part of me just wants to say, "be happy with what you have, because there are many out there who would love to have half the opportunities you do." but then again, they are fighting for the rights of the union as a whole. and who's to say that if these little things start to be taken away, that soon the larger more important things wont be?
jesus christ, another strike, eh?
sometimes, a quibble over dollars and cents is a little unneccessary. While yes, everyone deserves their shiny penny for putting those tv shows together, and they do deserve to be compensated as such, can we just lay to rest this whole "strike" thing? My god, these people are being paid extraordinary amounts of money, what are they whining about now? Stagehands i can understand, because they no doubt get the short end of the stick in the theater world. But screenwriters are in great shape financially, so they should just deal with it. In the long run, TV producers etc will concede because you can't film a show w/o a script. Or maybe they'll just turn to reality tv. over, and over, and over again. oh god...
I'm dumbfounded by this. Every time I've heard of a strike they've always ended within a few weeks, but this has been going on for months. Are things realy that bad?
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