Due to the writer's strike, fires, and jail... This sucks!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071108/tv_nm/fox_dc_2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071108/tv_nm/fox_dc_2
24 Cancelled This Season
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AznAnarchy99
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...all these shows just came back from breaks, and already they're running out of material.
I doubt 24 can make a successful return in late 08/early 09. Too many people will have lost interest.
LOoks like other shows are affected as well:
http://wgastrikewatch.blogspot.com/
Meanwhile, B&C is also reporting that LOST will go ahead with a truncated eight episode season in 2008, much to displeasure of almost everyone involved on the show. Take this quote from Wednesday's Ask Ausiello:
"Damon [Lindelof] and my concern about running the [eight] episodes we will have made is that it will feel a little like reading half a Harry Potter novel, then having to put it down. There is a mini-cliff-hanger at the end of Episode 8, but it's like the end of an exciting book chapter; it's not the end of the novel. Damon and I didn't write [the ending of Episode 8] differently [with the looming strike in mind]. We wrote it to be the ending of Episode 8." - Carolton Cuse
With that in mind, we turn to Heroes, which was planing on ending a 11-episode arc anyway. So will NBC be stopping the series there? No, says Greg Grunberg in an interview with BuddyTV. It seems that the scripts are 100% finished through episode 13, and that they are finishing 11 right now. While Grunberg says that the network has the choice when to show the next two episodes, but the last hiatus didn't do Heroes any favors...
Also, don't expect the web-comic to continue during the hiatus, either, says TVBlend.
Perhaps the worst news of all come from The Shield where The Mercury News is reporting that Shawn Ryan, the creative force behind the show, will not participate in the filming of the series finale due to the strike. Ryan, who also created The Unit, was a member of the WGA negotiation team.
Also on Day 3, show-runners of several hit shows including LOST, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Grey's, Law and Order: SVU, Six Feet Under--as well as Joss Whedon and and Ryan all joined the picket lines, according to Variety. The story also says that Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy is refusing to do any work on his show but Fox is trying to continue without him--which should be interesting as he does many of the voices on the show. (For you Grey's and PP fans, there are three or four episodes of each written and ready to shoot).
The Office also came to a halt because Steve Carrell refused to cross lines. (NC Times)
And producers looking for scabs won't be able to look to Canada. The WGC said it will not accept work on US productions, according to The Globe and Mail.
Meanwhile, Ellen will go back to work for her show, sans writers, EW reports. If there's anyone who could wing it, it'd be Ellen, but this will be a test for other daytime hosts to see if they can be successful without writers. Meanwhile, EW is also reporting that you should expect studios other than Paramount to stop renewing and ordering episodes of shows... which means that even when the strike is over, there will be a scramble to fill the schedule with something other than Big Brother and Skating With Celebrities.
http://wgastrikewatch.blogspot.com/
Meanwhile, B&C is also reporting that LOST will go ahead with a truncated eight episode season in 2008, much to displeasure of almost everyone involved on the show. Take this quote from Wednesday's Ask Ausiello:
"Damon [Lindelof] and my concern about running the [eight] episodes we will have made is that it will feel a little like reading half a Harry Potter novel, then having to put it down. There is a mini-cliff-hanger at the end of Episode 8, but it's like the end of an exciting book chapter; it's not the end of the novel. Damon and I didn't write [the ending of Episode 8] differently [with the looming strike in mind]. We wrote it to be the ending of Episode 8." - Carolton Cuse
With that in mind, we turn to Heroes, which was planing on ending a 11-episode arc anyway. So will NBC be stopping the series there? No, says Greg Grunberg in an interview with BuddyTV. It seems that the scripts are 100% finished through episode 13, and that they are finishing 11 right now. While Grunberg says that the network has the choice when to show the next two episodes, but the last hiatus didn't do Heroes any favors...
Also, don't expect the web-comic to continue during the hiatus, either, says TVBlend.
Perhaps the worst news of all come from The Shield where The Mercury News is reporting that Shawn Ryan, the creative force behind the show, will not participate in the filming of the series finale due to the strike. Ryan, who also created The Unit, was a member of the WGA negotiation team.
Also on Day 3, show-runners of several hit shows including LOST, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Grey's, Law and Order: SVU, Six Feet Under--as well as Joss Whedon and and Ryan all joined the picket lines, according to Variety. The story also says that Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy is refusing to do any work on his show but Fox is trying to continue without him--which should be interesting as he does many of the voices on the show. (For you Grey's and PP fans, there are three or four episodes of each written and ready to shoot).
The Office also came to a halt because Steve Carrell refused to cross lines. (NC Times)
And producers looking for scabs won't be able to look to Canada. The WGC said it will not accept work on US productions, according to The Globe and Mail.
Meanwhile, Ellen will go back to work for her show, sans writers, EW reports. If there's anyone who could wing it, it'd be Ellen, but this will be a test for other daytime hosts to see if they can be successful without writers. Meanwhile, EW is also reporting that you should expect studios other than Paramount to stop renewing and ordering episodes of shows... which means that even when the strike is over, there will be a scramble to fill the schedule with something other than Big Brother and Skating With Celebrities.
MmmSkyscraper
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WTF is wrong with these studios. The writers make jackshit compared to the actors and everyone else involved. It's not like their demands are crazy either. They just want their fair share. I'm all for the writers, FUCK THE GREEDY ASS STUDIOS. They are gonna hurt bigtime for this.
Fox doesn't know how long the strike will go on.
if it ends tomorrow, they can probably salvage the season.
if it keeps going on, 24 could be looking at starting the season with only 1/3 completed and the other 2/3 nowhere in sight, and would be a huge cash loss in terms of the marketing engine behind 24 if they aired 1/3 of the season and took a 4 month hiatus while they finished writing/filming the rest of the season.
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