what does this mean for Gossip Girl???
and i can't believe this could possibly last a year.
:/ weird.

Thanks for posting these links, Buzz, and for keeping us updated about the strike. Looks as though we'll be seeing reruns and more reality shows even sooner than expected. Too bad show like Dirty Sexy Money may be casualties in all of this.

josh schwartz can write it, right? i mean he pretty much write all of the o.c. episodes, oh no, i need new gossip girl episodes.
buzz what will happen to gg?

24 BETTER COME ON!!!!!!!!

this is a little odd but i'm honestly very scared, lol
whatelse do i have for entertainment?

One of my favorite bloggers, an author, a former recapper for TWoP (Gilmore Girls) and now a staff writer for Samantha Who has started posting about the strike (linking to other great sources). Really, really interesting.

As much as Im bummed that there are only 2 more epis of Office I completely support their cause. They deserve to be paid specially when the studio is making tons of money off of their work.

yyam- Josh Schwartz could write new episodes for GG but he may be part of the Writers Guild and even if he is not, writing scripts would totally be betraying the writers of that show and he would piss off a lot of people

um, lost may not happen for ANOTHER YEAR?!

come 'on studios! take your heads out of your asses and give them their measely four cents!

GEEZ.

Many showrunners have signed this (including Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage of GG) so no one's writing:

http://www.wga.org/subpage_member.aspx?id=2529

i'm confused is this only television writers or movie writers as well?

wow. i thought that video was a bit aggressive. i see their point. i hope everyone gets what they want in the end. hopefully all of our tv programs will return soon enough. ive never seen an episode for lost but waiting until 2009 thats really crazy. sadly i admit. i watch a bunch of my shows online

re: gossip girl. josh schwartz would not write b/c he is one of the showrunners who signed the pencils down contract, posted at the WGA website: http://www.wga.org/subpage_member.aspx?id=2529

it's unfortunate that so many of our loved shows will be affected, but maybe the show of solidarity will send a clear message to the studios that there are a lot more important people who back the writers and their cause.

miss britt: it's tv and movie writers -- the only reason why there is so much focus on the television season is b/c the effects are immediate with tv (late night shows depend on daily material, tv shows are all in the middle of writing and shooting their seasons and very few if any will be able to finish up this season if the strike goes long-term). movie scripts are easier to stockpile and we probably won't see direct effects of this strike on the movie industry til next year...

On the side of publicity for movies there will be affects since there are no late night shows to go on

thank you fadedblue for answering my question

thanks for clearing that up to me.

That video is great.. they are even funny on strike. Thanks for posting, Buzz. It's sad.. I wish we could do something.. but, our shows are on a hiatus until they can come to an agreement.

While I have a bunch of books and blogging I could do during that lost t.v. time, I really hate this strike for messing up the new season. I agree w/ why they are on strike however it's rotten that loyal viewers have to pay a price.

Lindsb you can do something, write to the studios.

WOW lost in 20009, that is a long time to wait, at least my favorite show Prison Break is still in the air, until December!
it sucks but, I'm still 100% behind them , they are right to strike!

I'm not really stressing...yet.

Although, not that I watch the show but...

2009 for Lost, holy...

I feel bad for people that watch that show.

Reading Jenna Fischer's post helped clarify what's going on with the writer's... but I'm so sad because I've spent most of the last month or so catching up on ALL three previous seasons of Desperate Housewives!

wats poppin

I must say this is all very crazy/sad for the writers involved. Butttt, I was watching E news last night and they showed a clip of the writers picketing outside of Desperate Housewives---they were chanting "Eva Longoria--whose going to write your story-a". I thought that was hilarious. Leave it to a group of writers to come up with the most cleaver strike chants ever.

lol Happsmjc! I saw one where they were chanting "We write. They wrong."

I will FREAK OUT if lost is pushed back another year. I read that they do have 8 episodes written so they might air those, then just wait on the rest. I can't handle it!!! I need LOST! I NEED JACK

I've been following news about the strike for awhile and ended up collecting RSS feeds and about a zillion links on a Squidoo page, if anyone is interested: http://www.squidoo.com/wgastrike2007/

There's also information there about how you can support the writers (and why).

Thanks Buzz for keeping us updated!

wow this sucks

KerryG, that's awesome — thank you for sharing with us!

For those who haven't heard, Steve Carrall wouldn't cross the picket line, so he called in sick with "enlarged balls." Seriously. This actually happened.

My boyfriance is graduating as a screenwriter this year, so it's closer to my heart than just the shows I love. I worry that when we move to LA that the strike will just be ending, and all of these writers will have a huge stack of finished scripts to sell, making it hard for him to get his foot in the door.

He has been joking, though. He told his professors that he wasn't going to turn in his homework until he got his damn residuals lol.