What Happens when the Writer’s Strike Ends?
If you’ve been checking the news sites at all, you’ll have read that it’s a pretty good chance that the writer’s strike will be over by next week (hopefully). Things are moving along well and it looks like everything can be finalized sooner rather than later. So what does this mean for our favorite shows, like House? Unfortunately, we probably won’t see an “end” to the fourth season, and if we do, it’ll take awhile.
Industry executives say it will likely take eight weeks to restore favorite shows like “House,? “CSI,? “Grey’s Anatomy,? and “Desperate Housewives? to prime time once the strike ends. “The writing process itself tends to take a couple of weeks for a script to be ready to shoot, and that’s just the beginning. Then you have to get it out to directors, scout locations, cast it and build sets,? said one studio executive. Filming a drama generally takes about eight days, with another week and a half needed for editing and other post-production work, he said.
So IF it does show the end of the season, it’ll take two months before we see it.
And how do we know, for sure, that House will be on? Hits like “CSI,? “House? and “Grey’s Anatomy,? are “no-brainers? to bring back this spring, one network executive told Reuters. Works for me!
One bad thing about the writer’s strike? Not all writers will have their jobs back. The networks are using this as a reason to cull out some of the lower rated shows that weren’t rating too high, and they now have even more reality television to air, meaning that the shows will have to share air time with reality tv.
So good news on one end (our end), and “not-so” good news for some of the writers.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Did you know that last night the Biography Channel devoted an hour to Hugh Laurie? I missed it! I think it is being re-run on Monday at 4 a.m.