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And speaking of the strike...here is an interesting little tidbit I found:
If this strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television will end this December. No dramas. No comedies. No “Daily Show.†The strike will also prevent any pilots from being shot in the spring, so even if the strike is settled by then, you won’t see any new shows until the following January. As in 2009. Both the guild and the studios we are negotiating with do agree on one thing: this situation would be brutal.I will probably be dragged through the streets and burned in effigy if fans have to wait another year for “Lost†to come back. And who could blame them? Public sentiment may have swung toward the guild for now, but once the viewing audience has spent a month or so subsisting on “America’s Next Hottest Cop†and “Celebrity Eating Contest,†I have little doubt that the tide will turn against us.
Um. Well, let's not get hasty. Brutal? I'm not so sure that applies. Yes, I like my television as much as the next person, even though I'd be hard-pressed to name a current prime-time network television show that I like. But brutal?
Brutal is the situation that our soldiers face in stations around the world. Brutal is the situation that poverty-line parents find themselves in, when it's time to decide between paying the rent and feeding their child. Brutal is the situation that elderly people find themselves in when they have to decide between their medication and food.
But if a host of fans have to put up without a season of Lost if there's no decision made in this strike by the end of December, that might be unfortunate, but it's a far cry from brutal. While I want to see people get their fair share for their work, let's keep a bit of perspective here. If they reach a contract by the end of December or first of January, the shows will go back to work, and so will the crews, there just won't be new shows for a year. Are we really that hard-up as a nation, as a people, that we can't find something else to do if there is nothing on the telly to watch?
That's okay. I've got a lot of TAGS and Dirty Jobs to catch up on. And Dave and his toast will be back.
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