Writers’ Strike Altering TV Schedules

The writers’ strike is going to have a huge impact on television. The longer the strike is the bigger the impact will be on television.

Some shows like Desperate Housewives and The Office have already ended production meaning that only the shows that have already been filmed will be aired. Others shows are still in production but they are running out of scripts to produce. This chart shows how many episodes the tv shows still have left.

whether the strike continues into the spring it could delay the production of next year’s shows as well. Lost co-creator and head writer Damon Lindelof wrote in a New York Times op-ed that whether the strike is towering ample new shows will not be seen until 2009.

whether that strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television will end that December. No dramas. No comedies. No “Daily Show.” The strike will additionally prevent

any pilots from being shot in the spring, so even whether the strike is settled by thereupon, you won’t see any new shows until the following January. As in 2009. Both the guild and the studios we are negotiating with do agree on one thing: that situation would be brutal.

I will probably be dragged through the streets and burned in effigy whether fans have to wait another year for “Lost” to come back. And who could blame them? Public sentiment may have swung toward the guild for now, but once the viewing audience has spent a month or so subsisting on “America’s Next Hottest Cop” and “Celebrity Eating Contest,” I have little doubt that the tide will turn against us. Which brings me to the second stage of grief: anger.

It looks like that could be a expanded fought battle amoung writers and the big studios.

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