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Writers Strike 2023?

Also shows pushed from mid-season and a few shows that started filming their next seasons early other wise most of the networks will see repeats and reality shows.

NBC: La Brea started filming their 6 episode 2nd season already, Quantum Leap has also started filming their 2nd season right when their 1st season ended they continued filming and Magnum P.I. was picked up for 2 seasons which was at first reported as 20 episodes but is 10 episodes each season so most likely they continued filming as well.

Found which was supposed to premiere in February got pushed back to fall plus they have Sunday Night Football so NBC seems to be set pretty much if it the strike goes on for awhile.

ABC and CBS would mostly be streaming and movie nights and reality Programming.

The CW will most likely be Foreign shows and Reality Programming.

Fox will most likely be reality Programming but they may have a handful of animated shows in the bag as one show has been renewed through season 3 and never aired an episode yet. Think it's called Krapopilois. Idk how many episodes Housebroken has made for season 2 but with not very many episodes of that being aired they could hold some over to the fall as well.
 
One of the points of dispute is about current and future use of automated writing systems (popularly referred to as "AI"). The WGA wants a total ban on using such systems in television.

But it seems to me striking is only likely to spur more investment in that domain. Once that investment happens, gonna be real hard to unring the bell.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
One of the points of dispute is about current and future use of automated writing systems (popularly referred to as "AI"). The WGA wants a total ban on using such systems in television.

But it seems to me striking is only likely to spur more investment in that domain. Once that investment happens, gonna be real hard to unring the bell.
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I seem to remember reading a story in a different Radiodiscussions thread several months ago about AI writing systems and how they were capable of turning out movie and TV scripts. I remember commenting back then that, IMO the human writers have kind of done this to themselves in a way, as so many plotlines are similar and predictable its relatively easy for a bot to copy them.

I've never been a big TV or movie watcher, but when we were stuck home during the covid pandemic and spent a lot of time watching, I was struck by how many movie scripts all seem the same after a while. Handfuls of action movies where the cop/government worker/secret agent goes to work on their last day or gets called in for "one last assignment" and someone harms/kidnaps/kills their child, work partner or spouse, causing them to go on a revenge tour for the rest of the movie, fighting and killing underlings throughout the film until in the last few minutes we see it pinnacle to a mono-a-mono battle between the main character and their chief adversary. At times one of the supposedly "good guys" turns out to be a rat and those can sometimes be predicted as well. Another standard plotline seems to be comedies where the attractive/popular/funny/likeable main character is constantly undermined by the strict or vengeful principal/teacher/coach/neighbor/authority figure and the entire movie is spent watching the protagonist ultimately rising up and winning.
 
I think that late-night talk shows return in Sep even if the writers are still on strike, which I think will last July or Aug when a deal gets done in my opinion.
 
Megatron said:
I think that late-night talk shows return in Sep even if the writers are still on strike, which I think will last July or Aug when a deal gets done in my opinion.
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Most likely I've never seen any latenight talk shows return early to make up for loss time for a writers strike.
 
Megatron said:
I think that late-night talk shows return in Sep even if the writers are still on strike, which I think will last July or Aug when a deal gets done in my opinion.
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How will they return in September even if the writers are still on strike? Strike-breaking replacements? AI script generators? Have the talent ad lib everything?
 
CTListener said:
How will they return in September even if the writers are still on strike? Strike-breaking replacements? AI script generators? Have the talent ad lib everything?
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Letterman, Leno & Jon Stewart returned before the Writers strike ended and I feel that is what will happen again even if they have to ab lib everything.
 
The Tony Awards get very low ratings anyways already, but the ceremony has been canceled as the majority of playwrights are WGA members: (remember that disastrous and hysterical Golden Globes press conference in 2008?)

www.vulture.com

Tony Awards Will Give Its Regards to Broadway Amid Strike

The nominated musicals and a bonus Lea Michele will perform.
www.vulture.com www.vulture.com

deadline.com

The Tony Awards Will Not Be Televised: WGA Denies Strike Waiver – Update

The WGA has denied producers of the Tony Awards a requested strike waiver that would have allowed the broadcast to go on as scheduled June 11.
deadline.com deadline.com


Meanwhile….

www.cbsnews.com

Writers strike could drag on until the end of summer, experts say

Writers and studios are both entrenched in their positions, making little headway in negotiations.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

And in regards to an imminent DGA strike:

www.cbsnews.com

DGA negotiations begin as WGA strike enters day 9

The Directors Guild of America is beginning its labor talks with Hollywood studios on Wednesday, with many of the same issues on the table.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
 
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The Tony Awards get very low ratings anyways already, but the ceremony has been canceled as the majority of playwrights are WGA members: (remember that disastrous and hysterical Golden Globes press conference in 2008?)
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This is terrible. I always like the performances of traditional style musicals.
 
Seriously speaking now ... Could Disney shift over to ABC sporting events now carried only on the ESPN family of networks, including the streaming-only ESPN3 and ESPN+, without increasing the price it pays to whatever entity puts on the event? For instance, to fill time, someone at Disney figures a professional boxing card scheduled only for ESPN+ or a college football game scheduled only for ESPN2 would attract more viewers on ABC than a rerun of a sitcom or a late night talk show. Would that be a logistical problem on short notice?
 
I think I am remembering correctly that the series on the career of Michael Jordan was aired on ABC and I saw nearly all of it. Had I known in time my cable would go out I could have used an antenna for what I missed. There have been other great series like that which those of us who don't have cable channels or streaming wouldn't see otherwise.

Notice I said cable channels. For some broadcast stations I watch the transmitters are too far away without cable. WGN America or whatever it's called is the only "cable channel" in that package.
 
One issue is the sports tend to bunch up in time periods already allocated to sports. At least the sports of significant value. It’s one thing to simulcast Monday Night Football, and even that’s bordering on second tier, another to pick up whatever thing they have on ESPN 8 on a random weeknight.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Don't they need writers, or are the writers non-union?
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pro wrestling has no members of the WGA involving in storyline writing, hence why WWE and TNA Wrestling (now Impact Wrestling) back in 2007-2008 and now WWE & AEW at this moment as well as Impact Wrestling and other promotion are able to keep their storylines going without stopping for the strike.
 
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