Striking Numbers

I fully agree with Babygirl24k. I think they make too much money for comedies that are not funny and programming that leaves a lot to be desired. I rarely watch networt tv. IT SUCKS!------------
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Are the peole who write these articles retarded? Seriosuly, not mocking the handicapped here, only those who are hindered and held back. Television shows airing on a schedule are priceless, eh? Gee, I only thought that word could be equated with real life, not fantasy lanbd. How foolish I have been.

Are the peole who write these articles retarded? Seriosuly, not mocking the handicapped here, only those who are hindered and held back. Television shows airing on a schedule are priceless, eh? Gee, I only thought that word could be equated with real life, not fantasy lanbd. How foolish I have been.

with the "strike" over maybe better show will be written ,most of what is see is junk-I watch about 4 show now-and have mostly dvd to watch -possable the writers learn something and look at 70-80-90-type shows while they were off work- KW

Sorry to say about 90% of what is on TV now is just junk. I do not watch it, thank God for DVDs and the good old TV prog that you can now get on DVDS. I only have about 5 things I watch. So much trash on now. Sorry

The last time the football players went on strike the teams hired scabs and put out a product. This never happens with baseball. The writers appear to be more like the baseball players in that regard, except that baseball players are more able to weather the strike financially and after the strike the market was still there for their product. It appears that the structure of the market for their product has been changed as a result of this strike. Some of the series will continue, some will restart without any new shows(work) until the fall season. It appears that a higher number than normal will go away. I don't see how overall the writers will make back the income that they have forgone over the length of the new contract. It appears to me that everyone lost save for the people involved in the reality show that replaced the ones put on hiatus because of the strike. If this is winning, I'm glad that I don't have a union to promote my interests.

I'm hearing more often there's going to be an actor's strike. What's the worst that can happen? We Americans read more books?

I can't believe in this day and age, that people still blame the unions for strikes. Yes, they are the ones who choose to strike, but this only after the company for which they work refuses to negotiate or to pay the people who earn them their fortunes what they are worth. If it were not for the unions or the threat of them, there would not be any decent paying jobs. I hope that someday the American people can stop blaming unions and start pointing the finger at the SOB's who want to hoard all of the money from profits made from the broken backs of working people.

I just wanted my daughter to cantact someone who needed a writer so she could get a writer's postion. She has the education and the skill. She didn't think there was a way to find out how to contact the right person!

I just wanted my daughter to cantact someone who needed a writer so she could get a writer's postion. She has the education and the skill. She didn't think there was a way to find out how to contact the right person!

A $3.5 billion impact? Seems unlikely that the current generation of writers (and probably the next one, too) will actually make that much in additional revenue under the new agreement. So this strike has resulted in a net loss for everyone as a whole. Yet another example of myopic, selfish unions that refuse to see the big picture.

now do to the strike shows like army wives was taken off the sre after there first season whats gonna happen now will it return or will just stay off the air since its been so long that it hasnt aired so many people found new realty tv shows

well what going to happen to shows like army wifes and one tree hill and prison break ?

I would like to see headlines that emphasize the value of what???s been accomplished by this strike, & how rare that accomplishment is these days, a fact that???s being passed over by all the dollar headlines. It???s even minimized while being mentioned in this article so eloquently: "The major lesson learned from the strike is one that's kind of fundamental to human nature: if the writers, the actors and the directors feel that the companies that they work for are doing well, it's in the companies' best interest to treat everybody well, because ultimately that will motivate them to produce better and better product." I don't feel sorry for viewers who watched reality shows, re-runs, or (horrors!) had to turn off the TV altogether. And I feel deeply for a hardworking society who suffers economic hardship ??? whether via a strike, or a generally unacceptable economic environment. This is what a strike is supposed to do. This is the leverage. This is why they call it ???union???. And frankly I was proud of the union???s efforts when I watched a cowed Golden Globes broadcast. It had a metaphorical red carpet of its own that said, ???This is a show about what we can do together. Remember this???? I'm proud of this union for the stand they took ??? their consistency & determination & longevity. Not only for how it benefits their own membership, but for any whose future livelihood will be impacted by the influence of all modern technology in a variety of future careers. I???m a liberal, I???m a union brat, I???m a working stiff. A victory for one is a victory for all.

I know the process of deciding to strike is complicated and I know that the writers lost money but it bothers me to no end that during the last three and a half months the fact that below the line crew workers got totally screwed got almost no press coverage. Below the line crew includes set builders, costumers, grips, set dressers, production assistants, etc., in short, people who make a FRACTION of the money writers make. All of these people had absolutley no stake in the outcome of the strike. But they were out of their jobs. I'm sure that many lost their homes. What would you do if the industry you worked in just evaporated out from under you? All that talk about actors starting a fund for out of work writers made me furious! What about the set builder that has a couple of kids, a mortgage, and does not have the luxury of previously earning hundreds of thousands of dollars? I know below the line crew people and writers and I know what they make and let me tell you - a writer can wheather a financial storm...whereas a production assistant cannot. But from what the average person could read about the strike, nobody cared about the PA but boohoohoo for the writers...for doing this to themselves? Whatever.

I know the process of deciding to strike is complicated and I know that the writers lost money but it bothers me to no end that during the last three and a half months the fact that below the line crew workers got totally screwed got almost no press coverage. Below the line crew includes set builders, costumers, grips, set dressers, production assistants, etc., in short, people who make a FRACTION of the money writers make. All of these people had absolutley no stake in the outcome of the strike. But they were out of their jobs. I'm sure that many lost their homes. What would you do if the industry you worked in just evaporated out from under you? All that talk about actors starting a fund for out of work writers made me furious! What about the set builder that has a couple of kids, a mortgage, and does not have the luxury of previously earning hundreds of thousands of dollars? I know below the line crew people and writers and I know what they make and let me tell you - a writer can wheather a financial storm...whereas a production assistant cannot. But from what the average person could read about the strike, nobody cared about the PA but boohoohoo for the writers...for doing this to themselves? Whatever.

I know the process of deciding to strike is complicated and I know that the writers lost money but it bothers me to no end that during the last three and a half months the fact that below the line crew workers got totally screwed got almost no press coverage. Below the line crew includes set builders, costumers, grips, set dressers, production assistants, etc., in short, people who make a FRACTION of the money writers make. All of these people had absolutley no stake in the outcome of the strike. But they were out of their jobs. I'm sure that many lost their homes. What would you do if the industry you worked in just evaporated out from under you? All that talk about actors starting a fund for out of work writers made me furious! What about the set builder that has a couple of kids, a mortgage, and does not have the luxury of previously earning hundreds of thousands of dollars? I know below the line crew people and writers and I know what they make and let me tell you - a writer can wheather a financial storm...whereas a production assistant cannot. But from what the average person could read about the strike, nobody cared about the PA but boohoohoo for the writers...for doing this to themselves? Whatever.

I think people who go on strike should be fired just as Reagan fired FAA people when they went on strike.