All I Want for Christmas … is an End to the Writers’ Strike!
I know I am not alone among fans, writers, producers, agents, actors, and basically anybody who has a television when I say that I am hoping the writers’ strike ends soon. As I have written many times before, I support the writers’ efforts to get a fair deal one hundred percent, but that does not mean I would rather see the “pencils down” period end sooner rather than later.
Santa, if you read this blog, can you wrap that up and put it under my spaceship-themed Christmas tree for me?
The writers’ strike has been going on for almost two months now, and there seems to be no end in sight. Even as the effects of the strike spread to advertisers, studios, and of course the actors, writers, and crew members who depend upon the shows for income … no one seems to be sure when things will return to “normal” on television. Shows like Bionic Woman and many others are left in limbo, and fans are not sure what they can count on in 2008. They don’t know which shows and characters to invest in, and as a result they get snippy with one another while the cast, crew, and writers are wallowing in fear about the future. Meanwhile, all sides of this surprisingly uncomplicated issue have been surprised themselves by the level of interest and support from the public, and thus as the strike drags on it is harder to sift through the public relations war that is happening in the press. Let’s hope that the New Year brings peace … if not in the middle east, because that would take the biggest of holiday miracles, then at least to Hollywood.
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:48 pm
[...] Margie has given us her Christmas Wish and I know the WGA members would like to see the strike end sooner rather than later too. Tom Smuts, a WGA member, has put together a site of apparel that can be purchased to show your solidarity with the writers with proceeds going to the cause. The site, Writers Strike Swag site says: Profits will be donated to the Writers Guild Foundation Industry Support Fund to assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike against the AMPTP. [...]