Whats the deal with the writers strike....?!


Question: do they pre record a bunch of episodes well before they come out? b/c there have been some new shows like moon light and numbers and house.. but bones i havent seen in a long time.. have they hired a writer that just switches or somehting?


Answers: do they pre record a bunch of episodes well before they come out? b/c there have been some new shows like moon light and numbers and house.. but bones i havent seen in a long time.. have they hired a writer that just switches or somehting?

They ALWAYS tape stuff about 3 or 4 months in advance, then spend some time editing and doing F/X, adding the music and stuff.

Some shows aired a whole ton of reruns during November (sweeps???) and December, holding off their new shows to be aired now.

Most shows have run out of new episodes, and a few shows weren't even slated to begin airing new episodes until January, anyway. This way, they keep a few new shows on the air, even though most stuff has gone into hiatus until the strike ends, and stuff gets written. That means, we are probably looking at new episodes, like, next Fall at best.

This was on my My Yahoo page:
A proposed contract settlement was endorsed on Sunday by the governing bodies of the Writers Guild of America, which also pulled the plug on further picketing scheduled this week.

But the walkout remained in effect pending a vote set for Tuesday by union rank and file on whether to lift the strike.

Membership meetings are slated for New York and Los Angeles where writers can cast their ballots in person or by proxy, and they are expected to support an immediate back-to-work order.

Formal approval of the contract, which hinged on new payments to writers for work distributed over the Internet, is being conducted through a lengthier ratification process that normally takes up to two weeks.

For the time being, writers were still barred from working on projects that were in development for struck companies before 10,500 WGA members walked off the job on November 5.

Even when the walkout officially ends, the potential for further labor strife hangs over Hollywood. The Screen Actors Guild, which represents some 120,000 film and TV performers, sees its contract with the studios come up for renewal in June, and SAG leaders have vowed to be aggressive in labor talks.

One key group of Hollywood workers who did return to their jobs on Monday were television "show-runners" on dozens of scripted prime-time dramas and comedies forced out of production by the strike.

They are permitted to perform producing duties but remain precluded for now from writing or polishing scripts.

PENCILS UP

On the film side, only production companies that signed "interim agreements" with the WGA during the strike, such as Lionsgate Entertainment, the Weinstein Co. and Tom Cruise's United Artists, were allowed to have writers at work.

But that has not kept countless freelance scribes from plugging away at their computer keyboards. Even before the tentative pact, film writers were presumably toiling over "spec" scripts -- unsolicited screenplays to shop around, or "pitch," to studios once the strike is officially over.

The anticipated glut of post-strike spec scripts will likely spark a "feeding frenzy" by studios eager to outmaneuver rivals in snatching up fresh offerings from A-list writers, said Carl DiOrio, who covered the strike for one of the town's leading trade magazines, The Hollywood Reporter.

"The writing that was verboten during the strike involved only those projects that were pitched prior to the strike," he said. "Despite the Writers Guild motto of 'pencils down,' many of them have been working on spec scripts of all sorts."

The TV show-runners, because of their dual role as writers and producers, were never completely prohibited from working on series. But they chose to stay away in support of the WGA, playing a key role in shutting down much of the TV industry.

"They were expected to return to work today," DiOrio said. "But they won't be doing any writing functions until the strike is lifted."

Networks are eager to get new episodes of powerhouse shows -- like "Grey's Anatomy," "CSI," "The Office" and "House" -- back on air as soon as possible. But programs that struggled in the ratings may either be canceled or benched for next season.

The usual spring rush to produce "pilot" episodes of new series also will be scaled back, industry watchers said.

One program especially eager to get its writers back is the Oscar telecast slated for February 24.

A spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said writers for the show and its host, Jon Stewart, normally would have started working many weeks earlier.

"They'll have significantly less time than they would have otherwise, and it will be a challenge," she said. "But there will be writers ... and we'll have a show."


As Yogi Berra said: "It ain't over till it's over".

The shows that have been airing new episodes all of a sudden (House and Numbers for example) are basically airing off whatever they did have left. The shows are prerecorded, but unfortunately, they didn't get through taping any full seasons before the strike started.

Hopefully it will all be over soon!

Every show that airs is picked up by the network for a certain number of episodes; in the case of a popular returning show like "Desperate houswives" it is typically 22 episodes, for a newer show somewhere around 13 episodes and typically filming on these episodes start between late June or July to air in August or September. So when the strike started on November 4th most shows had filmed only about 4-6 of their 22 episodes. Now that the strike is basically over (a "tentative" deal was reached on Sunday by the chairpersons of the Writer's guild, but needs to be voted on by all the members) many shows will start production again and could have episodes ready to air by late-March/early april. What happened is that many shows stopped production at around the 4th or 5th episode and that means that other episodes had not yet been written; and because of the strike writers could not write any new episodes, so only episodes that were already written could be filmed.

Many shows will return to the air, depending on many factors; but some shows may not resume production and will simply relaunch in the fall season; ABC has confirmed that "Pushing Daisies" which had 3 episodes left on their inital season order will not return until the fall because it would cost to much to promote the show for 3 episodes and NBC has confirmed that "Hereos" which relies heavily on long seasons to develop characters and stories will also wait until the fall to return.

I hope this helps.

heard this morning that it is over and the writers ok the new
contract until 2011
they wanted the pay and benefits they deserve
they should begin flilming next monday is what i heard
just think the famous actors that make all the money and live in great houses, well if not for the writers who write the great lines where would they be without the writers
SOme shows have more shows already done or in t he can as they say then others
and some don't write the next few episodes until later so that is why there is new episodes of some than others



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