OK, everyone get back to work!
The writers’ strike is over. Most of my favorite shows will be back next month (except for Pushing Daisies, which has been renewed but won’t be back until fall). And the late night talk show hosts actually have good jokes to tell rather than their scattershot attempts to come up with jokes on their own (or, in Jay Leno’s case, attempts to make it look like he came up with the jokes on his own). By the way: Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien, you navigated well without your writers. Jon Stewart? Well, as you used to say all the time… “not so much.”
Now I wonder what this means for TV writers — and those who want to be TV writers — in the long term. Will there be less opportunities for young up-and-comers to get in the business, because networks are going to go with more reality TV, or will things eventually get back to pre-strike levels? Will the internet be best way to start your TV writing career? It’s all going to be interesting to watch, and some of it is going to be for very personal reasons…
I found your site on google blog search and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. Just added your RSS feed to my feed reader. Look forward to reading more from you.
- Randy Nichols.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:11 amReality shows were already all over the tube anyway - audiences want that, for some stoopit reason. At some point, the glut will decline a bit, but it’s the audience that’s driving this disgusting pile of sludge that has seeped all over the tube.
I wish there were good things on tv to watch, besides Peter Brady wrestling in Jell-o or whatnot.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:45 pmGet back to work Joel, and post something. Too much of what is now on TV, is poison to the mind.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm