[Santa Fe_Conservative]

Goodbye television. Of course you just KNOW most of the screenwriters will break the union rules and will ghostwrite undercover just like back in the strike of 1988 for certain shows that didn't want scabs to write.

[af_vet_rr]

There’s actually been some decent stuff on this season, but it sounds like we’ll get stuck with a lot of “reality” shows.

[DakotaRed]

If all the writers go on strike, the up side is that all of the outspoken bigmouth celebreties braying on against the war on terror and such, will have nothing to say.

[Ingtar]

I wonder if they have enough episodes of 24 in the can to rename it 12 for this year.

[Smokin' Joe]

Does this include the writers for the newsreaders as well?

Hmmm. Sounds like one of those ‘horrible’ Gubmint shutdowns to me, where nonessential personnel get the day off. (If they are nonessential, why are we paying them, anyway?)

[Secret Agent Man]

OMG there won’t be anyone writing tired drivel for washed up liberal actors to read?

[Don W]

WGA=Writer’s Guild of America?

NO. WGARA?

Who Gives A Rat’s A** ?

[Enchante]

YAWN. The drones of the WGA can just go away, as far as I’m concerned..... I almost never watch any of their product anyway. The world can do just fine without them (my world, anyway!). Let TV be sports all the time, plus news footage if we could ever get rid of the liberal anchors and producers, along with classic movies (the good ones) and existing historical documentaries (the good ones). They can take all their lousy sitcom and drama crap and shove it where the sun won’t shine.

Generating bad new content every week is just an employment program for leftist hacks.

I’ll be happy to re-shape the TV landscape for America and we won’t even need a WGA anymore!!

[napscoordinator]

This is so stupid. They cry about ratings and then they do something selfish like this. This could be the destruction of television as we know it. 1988 they went on strike and they never recovered. They are the most stupid people alive. It is stunning that they are pulling their own plug on the life support. And I am one person who actually loves to watch TV!!!! Not too many of us left and they are pushing us away too. Dumb!!!!!!!

[Nathan Zachary]

Good! I hope they are locked out forever. I’m sick and tied of one sided attacks on our government and country. I’m sick and tired of fag and lesbo TV. I’m sick and tired of minority TV and laugh tracks. No matter what sitcom, I hear the same person laughing every time there is a punch line.

[Joe Boucher]

T.V. writers go on strike and nobody notices or cares/

[cbkaty]

Oh the humanity....

How shall we carry on without Letterman (wiping tears from my eyes)?

[RayChuang88]

I think what really worries people is that if the WGA strike drags out it could merge with the potential SAG/AFTRA and DGA strike starting in July 2008. Now THAT will cause a financial disaster, with several entertainment companies forced into bankruptcy (and GE forced to severely write down losses at NBC Universal).