TV Writer’s Strike Ending

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Michael Eisner, former Disney CEO, says the writer’s strike is over and that TV will return to normal. This isn’t necessarily tech news but I know a lot of you guys have been following the strike.

"It's over," Eisner said. "They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general." Eisner, speaking live on CNBC's "Fast Money," seemed to hesitate initially about whether it was possible that the writers could still reject the agreement, but finally suggested the deal's acceptance was inevitable.
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Ok ponytail heads, get out your macbooks and resume spouting derivative crap!
 
I wouldn't be so sure... Eisner usually has his head up his...

I look forward to the sat meeting to see what the guild is going to do.
 
Damn and i was just getting used to the lack of poor movies and tv shows. Now they are gonna start make horrible movies and tv shows again.
 
Still hoping for a second season of American Gladiators but without the corny scripted dialog.
 
This is one self-admitted couch potato who is happy to see this :)

I was starting to get bored watching the Roomba's clean the house!
 
About time. Now time to get working on new episodes of House, Chuck, Life, and hopefully NBC does more Journeyman (it was in the talks of getting cancelled right before the strike).
 
So you think if they are paying the writers more, higher-quality movies and shows will be produced?
 
I have actually been enjoying the writer's strike. of course I don't really watch much Network TV and Discovery, History and military channels seemed to be unaffected
 
I never missed the poor over-the-air television season one little bit.
Only exception, I do watch "24".
Gave me more time to read, enjoy my children and hobbies.

It would be OK with me if the writers just stayed out. We'd still have sports and plenty of re-runs if you really HAD to watch something.:D
 
I'm not caring too much about TV shows returning, only the theater movies.
The strike was holding up Transformers 2.
 
I hope the writers didn't get screwed. I need me some good scripted Tv.
 
The only shows I cared about were family guy, heroes, and the office. The only one I really miss is heroes. I can do without though. Like someone said, the strike gives us more time to read, play with our children, go outside??!!! , etc etc... The writers should've stayed on strike. we should do a one year without the current hollywood writers.
 
What's funny is, what they have lost in the strike, they will never regain from the minute amount they would gain from any money for the internet portion they were wanting.

Just like the last writer's strike, they lost a LOT more than they gained.
 
kingsleytim said:
Damn and i was just getting used to the lack of poor movies and tv shows. Now they are gonna start make horrible movies and tv shows again.
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Uh... yeah. Compared to all the Reality shit that's been on during the strike, anything the writers put out is better.
 
L33t Masta said:
Well atleast heroes will b back
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Will it be? I thought it was done for. I shed many a tear losing Heroes.

Instead of making me feel sorry for the writers, the strike actually just made me pissed as hell at them :mad:!
 
Thank god its over. Admittedly I have lowered my standards so much I've even started watching reality TV trash. Hopefully they can salvage some shows for the spring season.
 
Thank goodness! The ass dimples on my couch were starting to disappear... :D
 
jbzx86 said:
So you think if they are paying the writers more, higher-quality movies and shows will be produced?
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No, because it's still the studios that decide what airs.. And they have the tendency to order shitty shows and either ignore or cancel anything even remotely good-- especially if it doesn't appeal to a broad audience.
 
99% of tv SUCKS in my opinion.. so I couldn't care less if all the writers and the actors along with them fell off the planet.. i'll just go on ignoring it like i did before :)
 
n3g471v3 d3c1b3l said:
ditto that! I have been watching the dvds of seasons 1-3 over and over, and sprouting random "That's what she said" jokes every day... God, I miss that show!
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YES! Ever since they stopped airing new eps in November I have been re-watching all the season 1-3 eps.
 
I didn't even know there was a strike. All I watch are Prison Break and Heroes, and Prison Break seemed unaffected. I thought Heroes was canceled or something.

Wonder how many writers are going to be fired when they return? :D
 
Skizzy said:
I didn't even know there was a strike. All I watch are Prison Break and Heroes, and Prison Break seemed unaffected. I thought Heroes was canceled or something.

Wonder how many writers are going to be fired when they return? :D
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Some writers got fired during the strike.
 
From my experience, TV has sucked for a very long time. I don't foresee it improving any. Just because you're getting better pay doesn't mean you're putting out better quality. I mean, even if you write it out, doesn't it get edited until all that's left is the stuff they feel is safe for non-cable TV anyway, and that they can cram into what's left for the timeframe after the commercials and credits?

I think that's what pisses me off most. Even if the shows were to remotely catch my interest, there isn't enough time on the show to really say I've been watching much of anything. At least, that's how I feel about it.
 
SamuraiInBlack said:
From my experience, TV has sucked for a very long time. I don't foresee it improving any. Just because you're getting better pay doesn't mean you're putting out better quality. I mean, even if you write it out, doesn't it get edited until all that's left is the stuff they feel is safe for non-cable TV anyway, and that they can cram into what's left for the timeframe after the commercials and credits?

I think that's what pisses me off most. Even if the shows were to remotely catch my interest, there isn't enough time on the show to really say I've been watching much of anything. At least, that's how I feel about it.
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OK... There's a lot of misinformation in this thread...

The strike was over royalties on DVD sales. Before the strike, writers were getting $0.04 (yes, four cents) per DVD (average of $15 a DVD). They wanted to bump that to $0.08 cents. When they said that to the studios, the studios went "Funny you should say that. We were going to say that we wanted to pay you NOTHING."

Wouldn't you strike, too?
 
GilmourD said:
OK... There's a lot of misinformation in this thread...

The strike was over royalties on DVD sales. Before the strike, writers were getting $0.04 (yes, four cents) per DVD (average of $15 a DVD). They wanted to bump that to $0.08 cents. When they said that to the studios, the studios went "Funny you should say that. We were going to say that we wanted to pay you NOTHING."

Wouldn't you strike, too?
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To add to this, $.08 would be the same percentage as they got for synidcation and VHS. During the previous strike studios insisted that the lower rate was necessary because DVDs are expensive to make and weren't sure how much if anything it'll ever be worth. They also promised that at the next round of negotiations that if DVDs did take off they'd up royalties to the standard rate.

The "we'll give you nothing" was not in regards to DVDs but to various electronic formats. They then trotted out the same it's new and we don't know what it's worth arguments and gave the same (now obviously) worthless promise to raise the rate in the future. Last year electronic formats produced $1bn in revenue (mainly adds in streaming versions). They cited similar values in legal actions against youtube, etc.
 
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