writers guiild picket line

[sailor]

today on the show they were talking about crossing the writers guild picket line to watch replacement shows. personally, i think if you feel this way you should stop watching tv shows right now (or at least those with writers). let's say your local grocery store clerks are on strike and they bring in scab workers. do you say "i'll buy the products on the shelves since they were stocked by the old workers, but the minute those products are gone i will not buy the products shelved by the scabs."? that would be ludicrous. if not crossing the line is what matters to you, you don't cross the line. you don't go cherry picking as you see fit.

so, how are your viewing habits going to be affected?

[PapaBear]

You forgot the "my viewing habits will only be effected by the fact that the strike will fuck up the schedule" option.

VIVA LA TELVICION!!!!

[sailor]

You forgot the "my viewing habits will only be effected by the fact that the strike will fuck up the schedule" option.

VIVA LA TELVICION!!!!

yeah, i thought of that, but decided it would fall under option 3.

[PapaBear]

yeah, i thought of that, but decided it would fall under option 3.

That doesn't make sense. Option 3 says that it won't be affected. It will.

[sailor]

That doesn't make sense. Option 3 says that it won't be affected. It will.

that option means you will not be deterred by the picket lines. for the example of the grocery store, it means you will cross the picket line, no matter what. if there are less products on the shelves because some unions won't cross the lines, that is out of your control. also, virtually everyone would have their favorite shows affected by the strike so that would kind of factor into all of the options to some degree.

[PapaBear]

It still doesn't make sense. My viewing habits will still be affected. I will be watching TV. I will try to watch the shows that I want to watch, if they are still on. The strike isn't going to make me stop trying to watch what I want to watch, but there are things that I won't be able to watch.

I'm "crossing the line", but my viewing habits will be affected.

[danner1515]

I can think of absolutely zero prime time shows that I go out of my way to watch as it is. The strike shouldn't change my lifestyle one bit.

[cupcakelove]

I barely watch any new shows now, I don't know why I would start all the sudden.

[Doctor Manhattan]

My answer would really be a mix of #2 and #3. my habits won't really be affected (I would continue to watch the shows I like, but if they are not there I could not) but I won't watch any replacement shows.

I'm going to keep on watching the shows I like. I will support the shows that were written before the strike and are now coming on the air, there is a delay in the production of the shows so I don't see it as being the same as supermarket items stocked on a shelf, more like the production of those items and a strike at the factory.

I watch, The Office, 30 Rock, South Park, 24, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Simpsons, Family Guy. Most of those shows are just going to go away for a while. I will not watch replacement shows, but I will check out the "Non-Seth" Family Guys to see how bad they will be (not that the ones with Seth were really very good, but they were watchable)

Since I don't really like Reality programming I won't be watching any replacement shows.

[Hottub]

Until the guys who write for Football and Hockey go on strike, I'm good.
Prime time TV can eat a dick.

[bigtim666]

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[underdog]

I don't watch any commercials. That's my way of standing with the strikers.

[Thebazile78]

It's not entirely the case that if you responded "my viewing habits will not be affected" that it means you're "crossing" the picket line by watching TV.

I only watch reruns and old movies on cable; how is that crossing the picket line?

[Doctor Manhattan]

I only watch reruns and old movies on cable; how is that crossing the picket line?

I don't think we (the TV viewers) can really "cross the picket line" since we are not going in their place to write for the shows. I can see supporting "Replacement shows" as an argurement for crossing the line, but if you are a fan of a show and watch it, you are supporting all those who made it.

[Fallon]

I will not watch replacement shows because they will be garbage reality programs rushed into production.

[sailor]

It's not entirely the case that if you responded "my viewing habits will not be affected" that it means you're "crossing" the picket line by watching TV.

I only watch reruns and old movies on cable; how is that crossing the picket line?

"virtually everyone would have their favorite shows affected"

[Furtherman]

Now that the strike is over, it looks like FOX will be getting the most new programming out there.

FOX ordered many current series, such as Bones, House, Back to You and 'Til Death, back into production and also announced premiere dates this spring for other new series:
March 2 at 930p: Unhitched (series premiere)
March 4 & 6 at 9p: New Amsterdam (series previews)
March 10 at 8p: Canterbury's Law (series premiere)
March 14 at 8p: The Return of Jezebel James (one-hour series premiere)
April 1 at 9p: Hell's Kitchen (season premiere)
FOX's 24 will also return to production for its seventh season, but the series will not premiere until January 2009 to allow the episodes to air consecutively. Other animated series, The Simpsons, American Dad and Family Guy are also back in production for future episodes.