I'll assume that wasn't a comment on the quality of TV in general. (Whole 'nother can of worms.)
...Immediately? US-based late night talk shows / sketch shows will go dark. (Letterman, Leno, Conan, Colbert, Stewart will all be going into reruns, as far as I know.)
Next week or thereabouts? Soaps will go dark.
Episodic TV will be largely unaffected until approximately New Year's because (in anticipation of the strike) every show in LA has been on a schedule designed to stockpile as many completed scripts as possible. (See here (http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_7372315) for some more specific info on various series.)
Film production: Studios too have been stockpiling scripts since early in '07. The strike's effects will take longest to show here. Myself, I'm praying fervently that the strike never lasts long enough to start showing at this end of things....
Unaffected: "reality" programming (oh, whoopee, I want to spend lots more time watching that. Most non-feature animation (much of this is handled by another union). Talk shows like "Oprah", etc. Various others: see here (http://www.popmatters.com/pm/news/article/50593/writers-strike-get-ready-for-repeats-repeats-and-more-repeats/) for a broader overview.
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Date: 2007-11-05 01:12 pm (UTC)...Immediately? US-based late night talk shows / sketch shows will go dark. (Letterman, Leno, Conan, Colbert, Stewart will all be going into reruns, as far as I know.)
Next week or thereabouts? Soaps will go dark.
Episodic TV will be largely unaffected until approximately New Year's because (in anticipation of the strike) every show in LA has been on a schedule designed to stockpile as many completed scripts as possible. (See here (http://www.sltrib.com/entertainment/ci_7372315) for some more specific info on various series.)
Film production: Studios too have been stockpiling scripts since early in '07. The strike's effects will take longest to show here. Myself, I'm praying fervently that the strike never lasts long enough to start showing at this end of things....
Unaffected: "reality" programming (oh, whoopee, I want to spend lots more time watching that. Most non-feature animation (much of this is handled by another union). Talk shows like "Oprah", etc. Various others: see here (http://www.popmatters.com/pm/news/article/50593/writers-strike-get-ready-for-repeats-repeats-and-more-repeats/) for a broader overview.