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Writers Guild ready to go on strike.

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(11/02/07 10:32 PM)

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The Writers Guild of America board voted unanimously to strike as of 12:01 a.m. Monday (3:01 a.m. ET), officials said.

The walkout will be the first in 20 years.

Steve Skrovan, a screenwriter for the Fox show "'Til Death," said a strike is all but inevitable.

If Hollywood writers do go on strike, late-night television hosts like David Letterman, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, as well as programs like "The Daily Show" would feel the pinch first.

Daytime soaps normally stockpile about 30 days in advance and most prime-time shows would likely make it through the end of the year without any major impact on programming.

But networks would have to resort to reruns, news programs and reality shows to fill the schedule in 2008 if a strike were to drag on.

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(11/04/07 12:26 PM)

and my bird can sing too!

what? David Letterman can't improv anymore?

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(11/06/07 12:04 AM)

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I personally don't care too much about whether or not this would affect new movies or TV shows coming out. So, I wondered if I could come up with an angle that would interest me.

I think the future of the American economy is in entertainment. We're not much in terms of manufacturing anymore; the vast majority of tangible things I own have "Made in China" stamped on them. In our own country, supposedly the proportion of agricultural workers is at a historic low.

But one import of ours that other countries are interested in is our Hollywood movies. And TV shows (supposedly, Kim Jong Il is a fan of Desperate Housewives). And most innovations in popular music continue to come from America (the main times in recent history that it didn't, it came from Britain, also known as "Miniature Trans-Atlantic America").

(The rest of the world might not be that interested in our Xbox 360, though)

Our dollar is already falling in value with the rest of the world's. Maybe we need more and higher quality entertainment to boost it back up!

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(11/06/07 8:55 PM)

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Leno had a rerun last night.

Just thought I'd mention it.

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(12/05/07 2:49 AM)

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I watched a little bit of Last Call with Carson Daly tonight. It's not a show I normally have any interest in, but he's the only one to resume production since the strike, supposedly in order to keep his non-writer staff from being fired.

It was really awkward at times because they were kind of bumbling around trying to make a show from nothing, with some ideas not quite working. But that also made it more interesting to watch than it might normally be.

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(12/06/07 9:30 AM)

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I'd imagine that's what its always like on that show though....

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(12/12/07 2:49 AM)

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Tonight he answered some really stupid questions that a viewer submitted online, which led to him talking to his Mom on the phone during the show about his childhood nickname. There was also a Guacamole-cam featuring their green room and the awesome food that resides within. There are times when he actually looks pretty uncomfortable by how he has to do the show these days, but the audience seems to enjoy it and the oddness of it is still pretty captivating. I'd be really curious to see how Conan would do without writers, although he is one himself, so...

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(12/12/07 4:56 AM)

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I'd be really curious to see how Conan would do without writers, although he is one himself, so...

Yeah, that's why I don't get how this works. If someone wrote their own stuff, wouldn't they basically be a strike breaker?

Part of me is thinking, "Can't anyone come up with ideas, or jokes?"

And the other part of me is thinking, "Yeah, that's why unions exist."

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(12/16/07 3:24 AM)

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Supposedly some striking writers infiltrated Carson's audience during a taping and disrupted the show several times. When they were eventually told to to leave or risk prosecution, 20 people stood up and walked out.

I saw a few sites saying that there's a decent possibility of Leno, Conan, and the rest coming back if there's no deal by January.

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(02/13/08 12:48 AM)

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Anyway, in case anyone hadn't heard, the strike is over.

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(02/28/08 5:11 AM)

and my bird can sing too!

and the writes seem to have won. now, i just hope they don't outsource writers to india or pakistan or something.

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- THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM OR THE COUNTDOWN , Jean Baudrillard.

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(02/28/08 7:23 AM)

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Or to the internet.

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(02/28/08 3:22 PM)

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I actually thought Leno was funnier without the writers : /

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