Stop the Writers Strike! I Don’t Want to Study!

Thursday night rolls around and being ready in time for the nightly festivitives of beer pong and flip cup requires that you skip your weekly date with the doctors of Seattle Grace.

By Jill

No big deal, now that you can catch it on abc.com tommorrow right?

Well, to the Writers Guild (those in charge of writing every show you watch on TV) it’s more than a big deal.

So much so that today the writers decided to do something about it… picket signs, matching t-shirts, megaphones and all that hullabaloo- everyone loves a strike!

How does this affect you? Here’s the breakdown:

The Writers Guild (all 12,000 of them) feels they deserve residual payments for movies and TV shows viewed on the internet. Why shouldn’t they get a portion of the profit now that you can watch their work on the internet post walk of shame?

Yet the producers claim that the new media is still too new to figure out a way to compenstate their writers.

So what exactly does this mean for all of us die-hard TV watchers?

Well, for one thing, expect to no longer have an excuse to cancel your dates with the library. Starting with daily shows like The Tonight Show and The Late Show and working its way down to soap-operas, sitcoms and eventually movies, (depending on how long the strike lasts), the networks will be running more re-runs and… wait for it…creating new reality shows.

I can’t decide whats worse. As if summer reality TV isn’t bad enough. We may have to endure a full season of celebrity impersonators, and LiLo wannabees.

This is the first Writers strike since 1988, when the industry lost an estimated 500 million dollars during a 22 week long strike.

22 weeks?! That means that once all currently taped episodes air, that would be IT for the season.

Talk about a cliffhanger. Maybe David Letterman will actually have to write his own top ten lists? Maybe Greys will try a new reality-improv style?

While I’m all for the Writers getting their slice of the pie, I’m really not liking the idea of not having a reason to procrastinate.

I’m sort of stressing more over this than I do over final exams (totally normal, I know).