Writers Guild of America strike : effect on TV Show (List)

[TTiger]

december LIST
24 : Cancelled and is pushed to 2009
30 Rock: Ten episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there is one left.
Aliens in America: Seventeen episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there are seven left.
Back to You: Nine episodes will be produced. Seven episodes have aired, so there are two left.
The Big Bang Theory: Eight episodes were produced. Eight episodes have aired, so there are zero left.
Bionic Woman: Eight episodes will be produced. Eight episodes have aired, so there is zero left.
Bones: Twelve episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are three left.
Boston Legal: Fourteen episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are five left.
Brothers & Sisters: Twelve episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are three left.
Carpoolers: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are seven left.
Cavemen: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are seven left.
Chuck: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Eleven episodes have aired, so there are two left.
Criminal Minds: Roughly twelve episodes will be produced. Eleven episodes have aired, so there is roughly one left.
CSI: Eleven episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there is one left.
CSI: NY: Fourteen episodes will be produced. Eleven episodes have aired, so there are three left.
Desperate Housewives: Ten episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there is one left.
Dirty Sexy Money: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there are three left.
ER: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are four left.
Friday Night Lights: Fifteen episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are six left.
Gossip Girl: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there are three left.
Greek: Eight new episodes will be produced. None have aired yet, so there are eight left.
Grey's Anatomy: Eleven episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there is one left.
Heroes: Eleven episodes will be produced. Eleven episodes have aired, so there is zero left.
Heroes : Origins: cancelled
House: Twelve episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are three left.
How I Met Your Mother: Eleven episodes will be produced. Eleven episodes have aired, so there are zero left.
Jericho: Seven episodes will be produced. None have aired yet, so there are seven episodes left.
Las Vegas: Nineteen episodes will be produced. Eleven have aired, so there are eight left.
Law & Order: SVU: Fourteen episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there are four left.
Life is Wild: Twelve episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are three left.
Lost: Eight episodes will be produced. None have aired yet, so there are eight episodes left.
Medium: Nine episodes will be produced. None have aired yet, so there are nine episodes left.
Men in Trees: Nineteen episodes will be produced. Eight episodes have aired, so there are 11 left.
My Name is Earl: Thirteen episodes will be produced (that includes two one-hour eps, which count double). Twelve episodes have aired, so there is one left.
The New Adventures of Old Christine: Eight episodes have been produced. No episodes have aired, so there are eight left.
Nip/Tuck : No effect season 5 will be completed
Numbers: Twelve episodes will be produced. Ten have aired, so there is two left.
The Office: Twelve half-hour episodes will be produced. Twelve half-hour episodes have aired, so there are zero half-hour episodes left.
One Tree Hill: Twelve episodes will be produced. None have aired yet, so there are twelve episodes left.
Prison Break: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Eight episodes have aired, so there are five left. (On hiatus 'til Jan. 14)
Private Practice: Nine episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are zero left.
Pushing Daisies: Nine episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are zero left.
Reaper: Twelve episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there are two left.
Samantha Who?: Twelve episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are three left.
Scrubs: Eleven episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are five left.
Shark: Twelve episodes will be produced. Eleven episodes have aired, so there is one left.
The Shield: All 13 season-seven episodes will be completed. None have aired (the final season gets underway in '08), so there are 13 left.
Smallville: Fifteen episodes will be produced. Nine episodes have aired, so there are six left.
Supernatural: Ten to 12 episodes will be produced. Seven episodes have aired, so there are two to four left.
Ugly Betty: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there are three left.
Without a Trace: Twelve episodes will be produced. Ten episodes have aired, so there are two left.

[TTiger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Wr...America_strike

Cavemen: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are seven left.

Apparently they didn't start the strike soon enough.

[GatorB]

Writers are greedy fuckers. They get paid a hell of lot more in basic pay not including what they get in residuals from the curent "crappy" deal than the average worker on a show that they are causing to get laid off.

[dav3]

ppl still watch tv shows?

[Juicy D. Links]

24 : Cancelled and is pushed to 2009



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[qxm]

heroes, smallville and supernatural got hit........shit.......it's back to movies for me...

[Red Ezra]

Originally Posted by evildick

Cavemen: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are seven left.

Apparently they didn't start the strike soon enough.

haha - I couldn't even finish the first episode - moronic

[Socks]

can I send 10 bucks somewhere to help these poor writers?

[cybermike]

Originally Posted by GatorB

Writers are greedy fuckers. They get paid a hell of lot more in basic pay not including what they get in residuals from the curent "crappy" deal than the average worker on a show that they are causing to get laid off.

Without writers there wouldn't be shows/movies.. they are the content producers..

[seeric]

Originally Posted by evildick

Cavemen: Thirteen episodes will be produced. Six episodes have aired, so there are seven left.

Apparently they didn't start the strike soon enough.

yah i was thinking the same thing.

[PMdave]

Originally Posted by cybermike

Without writers there wouldn't be shows/movies.. they are the content producers..

without the lighting guys, setdressers, cleaning lady, catering people, hairdressers, casting directors, etc, etc, etc there wouldn't be shows/movies either

[seeric]

Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links

24 : Cancelled and is pushed to 2009



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reefer sutherland is in jail anyhow until january 28th for his dui conviction. thats another reason they had him go in on dec 4th when he did or whenever it was. he's sitting in the can and the writers is pacing on the the picket lines in the rain. and whats really shitty is the studios are all evacuating town for the holidays right now. they can give a shit, those poor people will be on those picket lines all the way through the holidays.

[RP Fade]

Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links

24 : Cancelled and is pushed to 2009



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yeah

[rebel23]

can't the writing be outsourced to Europe, Britain, Canada or whatever? there are cultural differences but studios could hire talented and willing writers overseas' to get stuff done I would have thought?

[TheSenator]

I don't really watch that much TV anyway. I get my fill at www.YouTube.com and downloading the latest DVDs.

I just don't want the to fuck with my History Channel, History Internation Channel and National Geographic Channel.

[tony286]

Originally Posted by GatorB

Writers are greedy fuckers. They get paid a hell of lot more in basic pay not including what they get in residuals from the curent "crappy" deal than the average worker on a show that they are causing to get laid off.

actually they dont make tons of money. Jay Leno said alot of these guys dont make big money.They work on and off so they need to be covered. Also then you throw in without them there are no shows, they are important and they arent paid that way.

[Sly]

Originally Posted by tony404

actually they dont make tons of money. Jay Leno said alot of these guys dont make big money.They work on and off so they need to be covered. Also then you throw in without them there are no shows, they are important and they arent paid that way.

I heard differently. I heard several writers from The Tonight Show make over $500,000 a year. Not if they decide that they should be earning more... fine, whatever, good for them... but the real people that are hurting from all of this is the regular guys running the cameras, the lights, building sets, etc.. They make regular wages, they can't afford this.

It would be nice if they would just get back to work. I want my 24! although I am glad to see that The Shield will be a full season.

[bronco67]

This is good....it'll give me a chance to get some extra work done, and maybe watch some fucking movies for a change.

[Mutt]

writers do NOT get well paid in Hollywood considering the odds of ever making it out there are very steep - it's only when you have written something that actually gets produced, which is a small % of projects, and then goes on to make big bank that a writer makes the bigger money.

i sold a screenplay in 1986 to a company called SLM Pictures, they produced Revenge of the Nerds and at the time was paid the standard Screenwriters Guild fee for a screenplay - trying to remember how much it was - it was either 36K or 46K - I had a writing partner and split it with her - so for one year's solid work I made about 20K. And the odds of getting a screenplay sold are very long. The movie was greenlighted to be produced and went into pre-production but the financing fell apart on it and then it got sold off to another production company who re-wrote and packaged it - script floated around for years, it never was produced.

the writer is arguably the MOST important part of any production - 'if it ain't on the page it ain't on the stage'.

btw it's the same with actors - the pay isn't anything phenomenal until you make a big name for yourself.

[crockett]

I'm pretty sure the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have been nothing but reruns since it started.

Can you imagine all the people this strike has put out of work? Buch of selfish pricks these writers are IMO.

[HeadPimp]

Oh no! They aren't writing for a bunch of crap I don't watch.

What ever shall I do???

Sheesh!

Here is my thought. If they don't want to do it for the wages they get then don't do it! If the studio can find someone cheaper that does a better job, let them. That is the American way. Besides, if they outsourced some of the writing work to India or Asia we might not have crap like Caveman on the idiot box.

[kane]

I just read that Letterman will be back after the first of year but he owns his show and is negotiating with WGA so that the writers on his show will get to come back and work. Leno, Conan and Kimmel will all be back then too. Ultimately they said it was a tough choice but it was either let a few writers be out of work or 150+ other staff members out of work.

The writers create pretty much everything that is shown. Without a script there are no shows or movies yet the writers get hosed when it comes to residuals. When a DVD sells the writers literally only get about 3-4 cents. The producers, directors and actors get a much more. Also they get nothing from streaming content or downloads or anything online. They want a piece of the pie and I think they should get it.

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by cybermike

Without writers there wouldn't be shows/movies.. they are the content producers..

Cosidering the level of crappy shows on TV these days I'd say they're WAY overpaid.

[96ukssob]

wow, this SUCKS ass. looks like it will be a few months of reality tv shows kicking it off big

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by Mutt

writers do NOT get well paid in Hollywood -

The writers for Leno etc get a base pay 10X that of the other workers on the show. Their strike is putting those people out of work. That's not even counting the so called "crappy" residuals they complain about. Those other workers don't get residuals. Sorry you're on the WRONG side of this issue.

considering the odds of ever making it out there are very steep it's only when you have written something that actually gets produced, which is a small % of projects, and then goes on to make big bank that a writer makes the bigger money.

So what it's like that in every business. even this one. Doesn't mean you subsidize the motherfuckers.

i sold a screenplay in 1986 to a company called SLM Pictures, they produced Revenge of the Nerds and at the time was paid the standard Screenwriters Guild fee for a screenplay - trying to remember how much it was - it was either 36K or 46K - I had a writing partner and split it with her - so for one year's solid work I made about 20K. And the odds of getting a screenplay sold are very long. The movie was greenlighted to be produced and went into pre-production but the financing fell apart on it and then it got sold off to another production company who re-wrote and packaged it - script floated around for years, it never was produced.

Good for you you got paid $20K for writting something. Which in today's $$ is about $40K what the average factory worker busting his ass with hard labor earns working 2000 hours a year.

the writer is arguably the MOST important part of any production - 'if it ain't on the page it ain't on the stage'.

If there isn't a stage then it doesn't matter does it? At any rate if a writer has a job then he's getting paid and getting paid well. However "crappy" the residuals he's getting them. The other workers aren't getting them.

When this strike is over and the writers get their pay increase and you pay extra for a DVD or a download or a movie ticket I do NOT want to hear you bitch about the price because I can guarantee you where the studios are going to get the money for this extra pay. THE CONSUMER. Who make considerably less than these writers.

Oh and if writing pays so suck then maybe those writers need to find another vocation. If writers are often out of work then they can GET ANOTHER JOB. How come this concept makes perfect sense in the rest of the world but yours? There's a lot of people with 2 jobs because their first one doesn't pay enough.

[smutnut]

It's not the writers causing this strike; it's there fearless leaders (the WGA mafia trying to live off them that set it in motion). Most writers do have other jobs, some even doing this lame shit. Most know how lucky they are to even get anything sold or recognized.

Granted there are a few at the top who should be shot right after the producers who dared to produce their work in the first place, but you could make these same claims about being over paid with sports athletes and actors who get paid a hell of a lot more than them.

Don't swallow that myth that most writers get treated like Shane Black, Joe Esterhaus, or even that overrated fuck Quentin Taratino. They're the myth, not the usual case.

[uno]

Originally Posted by crockett

I'm pretty sure the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have been nothing but reruns since it started.

Can you imagine all the people this strike has put out of work? Buch of selfish pricks these writers are IMO.

Check out www.wikiality.com or a fix of colbertishness.

It's been killing me. I love The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I'm usually at the studios once a month or 2.