he US scriptwriters seem to have been on strike for ages. Is this having an effect, apart from the Golden Globes? Is there a point at which the place goes into a sort of creative default?
All of the nightly comedy shows, like Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert stopped dead immediately. They've trickled back on, Letterman with an agreement, the rest working without writers (which shows, but usually not terribly). Many series shows on television had some scripts backed up, but they can't do rewrites or revisions, and many have run out of scripts. Movies are the same, with many scripts written, and even some in production, but they can't do rewrites; they apparently really need alot of rewrites. The directors striking a deal (pun intended) with the studios has weakened the writers a little bit, and hopefully it will be resolved before the actors guild goes to the table.
I assume that even the writers on strike are still writing, so when the logjam is loosed, a flood of Law & Order scripts and Bruckheimer tripe will smother us all.
I don't know if this answers anything. |
