All I Want for Christmas is an End to the Writers’ Strike
I know I am not alone among fans, writers, producers, agents, actors, and basically anybody who has a television when I say that I am hoping the writers’ strike ends soon. As I have written many times before, I support the writers’ efforts to get a fair deal one hundred percent, but that does not mean I would rather see the “pencils down” period end sooner rather than later.
Santa, if you read this blog, can you wrap that up and put it under my spaceship-themed Christmas tree for me?
The writers’ strike has been going on for almost two months now, and there seems to be no end in sight. Even as the effects of the strike spread to advertisers, studios, and of course the actors, writers, and crew members who depend upon the shows for income … no one seems to be sure when things will return to “normal” on television. Both sides have been surprised by the level of interest and support from the public, and thus as the strike drags on it is harder to sift through the public relations war that is happening in the press.
So what’s a BSG fan to do? Well if you want regular updates on the strike with a Battlestar Galactica spin on them, the best source around is GalacticaSitRep. Logan Gawain is doing an excellent job keeping up with the roller coaster of the strike negotiations, and finding sources that explain the punches that both sides are pushing in the press. He also follows the BSG writers and their blog posts on the strike, the pencil campaign that Ron Moore is helping promote, and which actors have visited the picket lines to offer their support (Mary McDonnell visited a few days ago, by the way, to lend her presidential aura and moral support). So even if Santa does not deliver a strike resolution this year, at least we have Logan to keep us in the know.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:24 am
[...] GotNews.TV has posted the following interview with Bones creator and writer Hart Hanson on the writers strike. Hart, along with Emily Deschanel, Micheala Conlin, and Eric Millegan address the strike and says [...]
February 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
[...] the writer’s strike. How nice to come back to the world of the living and find that my Christmas wish has come true, and the writers are getting back to work. It has been a long few months, but it looks like [...]