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So who’s going to write all of those great sequels, remakes, and movies based on tv series? This is a disaster.
Sorry to hear this. The 2007 season is the first one in years there have been multiple new main network shows that interested me. Pushing Daisies and Life (with Damian Lewis from Band of Brothers again demonstrating his flawless American accent). There are reports that if the strike lasts very long they’ll throw out all the new shows and start over.
Years between Arrested Development and now that if they stuck I wouldn’t have cared, and they miss the window. My liking as show is the kiss of death. Fortunately it’s rare.
Will anyone really notice they are on strike ... or even care?
Hopefully they are on strike for about a year. That way, we don’t have to see any new movie about how bad the marines are in Iraq, or how poor are Mexican children because of the air pollution resulted from the US not agreeing with Kyoto...
As long as Turner Classic Movies and Fox Movie Channel are on, I’m set.
Writers create the characters, create the dialogue, create the stories for the shows Americans watch on TV and in the movie theaters. They want a fair cut of the money that's being made from their labor. Those braying about this would freak out if their own work were being sold for others' profit on the internet, or had future profits kept by producers.
What will be interesting is seeing how people will realize that these goofy stars they think somehow just come up with all this stuff they say don't actually think for themselves.
Does hollywood really think I care? That’s one whole industry that can be flushed right now. Very little in the way of quality ever comes from them.
They take their audiences for granted.
They think it won’t matter if a strike will make episodes late or non-existant. Viewers will hang in there, right?
Wrong.
I would bet that most Americans, and a decent amount of FReepers, actually think this is something the federal government should get involved in.
They take a great story such as “We Were Soldiers” and portray some piece of murdering communist trash North Vietnamese military commander as some kind of highly rational almost noble being. They turn a great story about noble people, “Flags of Our Fathers” into some preachifying drivel about how the country was ready to surrender to the Japs rather then support the war effort by buying bonds, which is just plain b.s. America, in their view, is always flawed and the flaws need to be the central theme. There are any number of examples. Stay on strike you ba$tards.
Help me out here, I’m puzzled. What exactly do Jay and David do for their megabucks?
So the people who write the anti-family, materialistic, narcissistic, low intelligence garbage that goes out on TV are on strike! That’s good for the nation.
I wonder if these are the guys who write the crap we see on the news too. (sarc)
The last writers strike gave us the “reality show”.
Excellent news. Let them stay on strike.
This is fantastic, particularly for us indie filmmakers.