In case you haven't heard, the WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike started yesterday. After negotiations failed to resolve the dispute, the strike started yesterday morning, meaning that no new scripts will be turned in, and in many cases, filming of the scripts that are already finished will stop. This is very bad news for fans of The Office (Steve Carrell is a guild member so production stopped yesterday), and many other shows. Here is an in-depth assessment of where many shows stand. Most shows will have either a truncated season, or will just stop after this week (talk shows like The Daily Show, The Tonight show, The Colbert Report, etc. have already gone to reruns). The whole thing is a huge bummer, especially for fans of shows like Battlestar Galactica, Scrubs and The Shield, which are in their final season and probably either won't end as the creators intended, or will be aired over the span of a year and a half or more. Also worth noting is that 24 likely won't start airing until a full season can be put together - so not until the end of the strike, plus production time, which could put it one or even two full years from now. Also worth mentioning is the fact that many movies which are in preproduction will get canned, and others, which were frantically scripted to be finished before the strike, will probably be terrible. As you can see above, Joaquin Phoenix isn't happy about this either.
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When you say fans of shows like Battlestar Galactica, Scrubs, and The Shield, it's purely hypothetical, right?
This is horseshit.
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