Strike Over, TV Season Still Ruined
I thought it essential to at least make note of the end to the long strike by the Writers Guild of America. It couldn’t have come too soon, either, because TV was getting bad. Let it be remembered that for several months we had to do without new episodes of many of our favorite television shows. Talk shows were off the air for two months before returning sans writers for lackluster episodes. Repeats were the norm, and eventually much of prime time was taken over by “reality” programming. Lost premiered as scheduled, but will now have a truncated season of far fewer episodes than originally scheduled. The Office, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother and other comedies will be back in March and April, but will also air less than their full run of episodes.
I’m crossing my fingers that the Screen Actors Guild doesn’t strike this summer.
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