Is anyone else sick of the writers strike?? I AM!!! I miss having my Grey's Anatomy, and a few other shows. BOOOOO on the writers strike!!!

All that is on T.V. these days is reality show after reality show...........that gets old fast. Am I alone in this??

I miss the Office! this is the first season I was getting into it....saw 4-5 episodes and now all repeats!

Unfortunately, this is what the writers had to wait around for . . . no more new shows so finally the public will start getting upset, quit watching, advertisors get mad and pull commercials, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah!!!

Even if they start writing right away, then they've got to get to filming and editting . . . I think it's going to be awhile!!!

No, I am right there with you on this

Most all of my favorite shows have aired, or will be airing, the very last episode they had in the can before the strike started

All I have left to look forward to is a few eps of Lost when it starts at the end of Jan.


I heard this might drag on, they were saying there might not be any new TV for the fall 2008 season

Yep Julie--me too It will only be 8 episodes, they originally planned to air 16 straight--I was really looking forward to that--but will take what I can get at this point.

I do miss a couple shows like Grey's and Two and a Half Men, but really, not as much as I thought I would.

I'm getting addicted to "House Hunters" on HGTV

One of my friends uncle works in the industry and he said that all the writers HAVE the scripts but they won't sell them because the strike, obviously. But, he said they think it's going to go until September!!!! AHHH!!!! I miss all my shows too!

I'm kind of on the side of the writers...they get the really really bad end of the deal in Hollywood (really, really bad), but I do miss some shows.

I found myself watching Dance Wars: Bruno vs. Carrie Anne the other night

I think Grey's was new last week, but it was sooooo bad!

There are some great shows on the Travel Channel though. Anybody else watch Anthony Bourdain?

Ahhh I envy you folks who have cable. We live out in the country where there is no possible way of even getting cable!!! We have an antenna.

My dad loves 2 & 1/2 men!! It's a pretty funny show.

I too have to confess...I watched part of the biggest looser the other night ....I was just happy to have something that I hadn't seen before!!! ha

I miss :
Grey's Anatomy
Men in Trees
Desperate Housewives
Brothers and Sisters
Two and a half men
Friday Night Lights


I don't get to watch them all regularly, but I guess regularly enough that I am missing them!!

I feel the worst for the other people, like the folks who work on the set who aren't going to benifit at all from the strike (make-up artists, KRAFT Service workers, janitors etc). Those are the folks who I worry about. Most probably live paycheck to paycheck to begin with, and now they have NO work!!

-Jessica

GAH!!!!!!! heinous!!!!!!

Well, Grey's SUCKS these days.....

But I REALLY miss Friday Night Lights!




I'm not allowed to have expanded cable. Self- imposed rule......I would do NOTHING but watch HGTV, any kind of ridiculous "reality show," the Food Channel, History Channel.....and then how would I have time to waste time chat with my friends here?

This is not a criticism of the shows you like to watch as they are probably on after I go to sleep anyways and I don't watch them & don't know what they are all about..but I have basically stopped watching TV years ago as nothing interested me. So I am not missing much I feel. I don't watch the reality or dancing or Idol shows anyway. Oh, there is one show I do watch so I guess the strike will affect me.... I like to watch Monk on USA cable. Oh well.

Honestly, I don't do too much of the reality TV either, I watch the American Idol, but this will only be the 2nd year, we do watch wife swap and sometimes Super Nanny.

We perfer shows which are on A&E and TLC like Ice Road Truckers and Little People Big World....our new favorite is Parking Wars....boy that is funny. Those are reality shows but I think they are a different type of reality show.

Maybe we are seperated at birth.......FNL is one of my favorite shows too!!





Oh and Brothers and Sisters was just getting GOOD! They just dropped a bunch of stuff in our lap, like that new guy is he really Rebecca's father, what's gong to happen in the election, the affair is out in the open....

CLIFF HANGERS of epic porportions!!!!

Yes, the writers strike is creating the ULTIMATE cliff hanger!!

I am wondering also what is the deal with Rebecca's father....was it William or is it this new writer/drifter type guy....hummmm. Also, why is she so embarassed of him and not want him near her. Did something ugly happen there or is it just because he is Rebecca's dad??

I also can't believe that now Robert doesn't want to have a baby......is he scared because of the miscarriage or what is his deal??

On to Friday Night Lights............geesh the whole kicking the sister out deal was pretty harsh!!!

I miss my shows too! I don't understand how the strike can continue when George Clooney offered to lock himself in a room with the writers and executives until a resolution is reached. I would not turn down that offer!

I know! What's wrong with them? LOL

Did anybody watch Grey's last night? I know it was a re-run, but I fell asleep the first time I tried watching that episode, and I kind of wanted to know if the woodpecker guy was going to live ...so....I made a second attempt at watching it. Um...I fell asleep again!

Is there something wrong with me or was that just a really boring episode? Did the guy live? What did the gentlemen's evening turn out to be? LOL. Anybody know?

Sorry Mango--I turned it off after the last new "Ugly Betty" for a while. I know last week, they repeated Thursday's episode of Grey's on Friday night....

Ok--I just checked ahead on TiVo--it's on again tonight at 8 Eastern. I never saw that one, so I think I'll watch it

Oh good, I can make a third attempt at watching a really bad episode of Grey's

Yeah--maybe I ought to re-think watching--it already put you to sleep twice!

I like Ugly Betty but sometimes I get tired of it. My sister loves Desperate Housewives.

I LOVE Ugly Betty!


Ok guys, this is really bad. I am left watching Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann tonight...........

Somebody kill me now, put me out of my misery!

I am watching Life after People on the history channel, very interesting. They were just talking about Chernobyl the place in the USSR which had the Nuclear Accident. This part sent chills down my spine. TMI is in our backyard, I can see it on my way to work...and I live in the 10 mile radius. Yikes!

I couldn't watch past the first 15 minutes of that show. Didn't do a thing for me.

I prefer the comedies on CBS on Monday nights (although they're all repeats now ). My guilty pleasure at the moment is "Big Bang Theory".....it cracks me up I actully know a few people like that

Didn't do a thing for me either Patti

I'm actually a huge fan of Dancing With the Stars, but this I just haven't been able to get in to.



What is Big Bang Theory?? I don't even recognize that......

DWTS is starting up again in March! Can't wait!!!

Big Bang is on right before Two and a Half Men--it's about geeks who live ascoss the hall from a cute, perky, but kinda dumb blonde. The geeks are so OC that it just makes me laugh.

I can't wait either

It's always exciting to find out who the Star dancers will be. I would think they will be announcing them soon, they start training 6 weeks before the first show I think.

Exciting!



OH, ok. I know the show you are talking about, with the actress who played the daughter on 8 Simple Rules and that guy that was on Roseanne. I just didn't know the name of the show, looks cute

OMGosh...I just TRIED to watch this last night for the first time, lol. Most of the show I just spent with this kind of expression

Yep--that's it. Mindless, but funny, nonetheless

Yes, they should be announcing the new contestants for DWTS any day now--I remember hearing Donny Osmond say he had been asked.

Mine was more like

So tonight it was The Biggest Loser......

OMG I LOVE that show! very, very silly and VERY OCD geeks.....quite clever. Makes me guffaw out loud, the couple of times I"ve seen it....

tonight we watched American Idol and Family guy....

I am also a big fan of the nerd show!! haha I LOVE IT!! Sheldon has MAJOR ocd, cracks me up. I find myself laughing out loud at every episode of that show. VERY funny.

American Idol is the current saving grace. It is also pretty funny right now with all the bad singers.....gotta laugh at those.

Thank Goodness Antiques Roadshow is not in re-runs! ha (does that make me a nerd that I watch that show, I LOVE IT).


-Jessica

Hey guys, I'm an actor in NYC and this strike is effecting everyone. One of the big issues is the web. They are posting tv shows on the web and they aren't really monitored so they don't get their residual. That totally sucks for them! Basically there is NO pilot season so there won't be very many new shows in the Fall. That's going to suck too. As for us actors in NYC it's getting crazy! All the LA talent is relocating to NYC for theater and the auditions are packed and horrendous, that makes less job opportunities for us live theater actors. I do feel that in the long run this will be for the better of the writer. It's going to be a LONG while before this clears up.
Not to mention the stage hand local one IATSE strike we had in late November hurt/helped the industry. Also, FYI Actors Equity, the stage acting unions Production Contract (that's 98% of the Broadway shows contract) ends this summer. I'm on the sub negotiating committee and it's already getting ugly for us too. The writers strike is hitting hard for agents too, they don't get their commission on tv shows (and it's a LOT) and then Broadway strikes....and I wouldn't be surprised if it strikes again...so watch out! Things I think, are going to get uglier!

Well this is not good news

Agreed not very good news...and what is it again that the writers are striking over?

many things, but mostly residuals over web sites and youtube type stuff and over all pay. they really do'nt get all the credit that they deserve too I feel anyway.

Well I was hoping it would get resolved quickly, but after all you said it sounds like it's a lot more complicated.





Last night I gave Cashmere Mafia a try

The writers are waiting for all the shows to run out of new episodes and the public will get mad and they hope that will put more presure on the Producers League.....the Producers are sort of waiting for the same thing...I think it's gunna be a few more months.
I miss Greys and Private Practice bad too!!!!! The reruns and reality shows are wearing me out too!!!!

I am so happy tonight!

a new Uggly Betty episode

AND

new Chuck episodes, 2 of them!

Okay, can someone who gets Ugly Betty please explain it to me? LOL I mean, every time I try to watch it, I just kind of sit there like this

Why do people like this show? LOL I mean, it must be great, because people rave about it, but I don't get it...

I think if you haven't watched it, or have no idea about the characters and intertwining storylines, it would be confusing to jump in on it now.

I just love it, it's super cute, has a really good message with what the main character Betty is a representation of, and the characters are all so quirky.

It's also soap opera-ish crazy, and funny, and in parts dramatic. It's just a fun imo.

Ok how I see Ugly Betty

In the scheme of things Betty is the "good guy", unsullied, salt of the earth, honest, loyal, intelligent, good-hearted, ambitious but not to point of cut-throat; she has no guile, can be gullible, has a positive attitude; not shallow but deep

and, she's "swimming" with the sharks in the fashion magazine industry. Those in the "business" are her mirror opposites and she is desperately trying to fit like a square peg in a round hole. Her boss is a newbie at what he is doing, and behind the scenes the other magazine characters are scheming to take over, undermine her and her boss. Most times Betty is just floating amongst all these strong personalities trying to do what's right, trying to keep afloat, trying to stay alive, and basically trying to keep her boss to focus on running the magazine. She oftentimes is the reason he is successful. Her family is quirkly: a nephew who knows he wants to be in fashion industry and can rattle off names of models and designers as if he's been in the fashion industry all his adult life (hey he's a teen!); her father is a wonderful man who wants his family to be happy & healthy; her sister is an air-head who sometimes gets in Betty's way of achieving her goals in life. The sister needs a crash-course in "self-reliance" . The sister has always relied on her physical looks her whole life, while Betty was short-changed in the physical beauty dept. and has always relied on her brain. The sister's have a love-hate dynamic: the beautiful older sister - who has achieved nothing during her existence is jealous of Betty's education and career and she's always trying to compete with Betty for the father's love. The father loves his two daughters equally and you can tell he misses his deceased wife. Betty takes care of things on the homefront in the same qualified manner as she does at work. But there too things spiral out of her control.

Betty is a symbol of the spirit of achievers who do not get recognition in life; who hum through "making things happen" while others get the credit and monetary compensation for it. She's the underdog: the everyman.

Happy days are here again!!! I saw on the news this morning that the strike may be over!! YEAH!!! It will still be a few more weeks until production begins on the shows, but there is a light at the end of the re-runs..err I mean tunnel!

-Jessica

Wow. I think I'll have to start watching this show now

Ugly Betty is a very cute show.......Betty is quite a likable character. Quirky and fun. Did anybody mention that it's a show that is shown in various versions around the world? All of them, I believe, based on Mexico's Le Fea Mas Bella. It's taken off in popularity all over the place.

Yes! Writers' strike making progress! This pleases me the most as the Oscars can now air, with writers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never miss the Oscars.

And now.......I've gotten sucked into Lost.......what in hell is going on in that show.

I missed this post, well said!




I saw the report that it was over too, YAY!!!!!!

But what does it all mean? When will our shows return? They have to write all the remaining eps of the season yet, and then shoot them, don't they? How long will that take?

We need our forum actress to shed some light...Melrobsings, where are you?!?!?!

They were talking about it on the radio show I was listening to this morning. Sounds like most shows are coming back in April or May.

thank goodness! I miss the office!

So I guess today it is OFFICIALLY over!!


I found this info:




More info/other shows:

http://tv.yahoo.com/show/36001/news/urn:ne...AqKVFSEKmn6o9EF

Woo-Hoo!!!