Creativity on strike
As you no doubt know by now, the folks responsible for the somewhat fine writing on television and film went on strike yesterday. Now we can wait for an inundation of reality TV to fill in throughout the strike once the nets no longer have any first run shows left and need a non-rerun ratings grab.
To me, there’s a positive and a negative here. The positive is I am hoping that the flood of reality shows kills the genre. I am hoping that once America is supersaturated with this crap, they will turn their backs on it. Yeah, I’m probably hoping for too much…
The negative is this may adversely impact the few shows I still watch. (I’ll have a post about this soon.) The biggest being my favorite show Scrubs. As noted in an E! Online News story about the strike, this already shortened season show (and still not filmed in HD!!!) is eight episodes short in completion. Should the strike drag on too this series may not get the planned ending it rightly deserves.
So, I’d really appreciate it if the two sides can come to an agreement quickly, but I understand the stakes and think it is important that the writers get some of what they want. Hopefully, with this situation resolved and off their minds, the writers can get back to writing some good stuff, because honestly, it just hasn’t been that good this year.
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Ed
Wed :: 07 :: Nov :: 2007 :: 08.36 am
One thing that really complicates things is the bitter pill the writers feel they swallowed during their last contract negotiations. Apparently the writers feel they got hosed on the royalties for DVD sales/rentals (at the time, Hollywood cited ‘it’s a new media – we have to see what the pie looks like before we can decide who gets a slice’) – now they are using the same argument for digital distribution and the writers aren’t keen to walk down the same path.
I echo your hopes about reality TV eating it’s own tail but my feelings are tempered by the fact that so many of us are sheep. That a show like Pushing Daisies has been doing as well as it has in the ratings, is a minor miracle. On that topic – I may have jumped ship on it too soon. Easily my favorite new show of the season. I’m trying to relocate Eps 2 and 3 (which I skipped) as the show did get a full season pick-up (of course, that depends on whether we see a full season of anything.)
Juice
Thu :: 08 :: Nov :: 2007 :: 08.30 pm
May we never see another Reality show again…I would rather watch Drew Carey on the New Price is Right…..
To Sean’s point I watch so few TV shows, (House, Family Guy and the Original CSI) would like to make sure they get continued and the good writers rewarded…they deserve their share and should not be duped again..
Coming attractions :: OB1og
Thu :: 08 :: Nov :: 2007 :: 10.55 pm
[…] a bit more often again. Finally getting the post up about the Sox and the relatively short post about the WGA strike are a good start, but I have been percolating a few other posts and I figured I’d share them. […]
Noelle
Sat :: 01 :: Dec :: 2007 :: 02.08 pm
Okay, so I’m not going to sit back and pretend I don’t watch ANY reality shows. “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” anyone? jk. I am actually a faithful viewer of “Survivor” this year. Plus, I catch an occasional episode of other reality shows. I don’t see reality shows going anywhere. The networks are already oversaturated and most people don’t seem to mind. On to the next season of “The Bachelor”…