Voici un autre article issu de Kristin de chez E! Online :
The Writers' Guild of America announced this evening that the scribes behind our favorite TV shows (and movies) will indeed go on strike, after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers refused to budge on the crucial issue of broadband and internet profits.
Funny enough, I heard this news tonight while sitting at a table at a Children's Defense Fund dinner with Lost producer Damon Lindelof and Heroes producer Tim Kring, whose Blackberries (along with other writers, producers and directors in the room) simultaneous buzzed about 7:30 with the news that "It's on."
My heart it heavy. Not so much for the lack of television we fans will have to endure (we'll get to that in a moment), but for the ripple effect this strike will have on the Hollywood industry and community, trickling down from the likes of executive producers to writers to actors to caterers to dry cleaners to office-supply workers to janitors to the wives and children of all of the above. I'm not trying to get sappy here, but it needs to be said: When Hollywood shuts down, it shuts down for everyone--not just the writers themselves.
I'm told that sometime in the 24 hours, WGA members will be given instructions for when the strike will begin, and handed red WGA T-shirts that they will wear as they picket.
And as of this very moment, TV as we know it is no longer moving forward. It's an oddly disturbing feeling.
Many of you fans have been writing in to ask: What does this mean for our favorite shows? I have to admit, I'm still wrapping my own head around it, but here's what I can tell you:
The effects of the strike will be felt first for nighttime shows such as Leno, Letterman, Kimmel and (this one's hard to stomach) The Daily Show, which obviously write scripts on a daily basis.
Up next, soap opera scripts will run dry.
And then, somewhere around January or February, most of the series currently on the air will run out their completed episodes and be replaced by reality and news programming, reruns or that burning log in the fireplace normally reserved for Christmas day. (Whatever the nets can muster.)
So, when we're talking about Heroes, Grey's, Ugly Betty, The Office, etc., you can expect to get weepy about January. But, of course, it also depends upon how long the strike lasts. It could be as short as five days or as long as the last strike in '88, five months, or even longer.
From all appearances, Lost may have the best advantage of all series, given that it has been stockpiling new scripts since June and not a single episode has yet aired. At this point, 14 of 16 episodes have been written. And if the strike does last long enough to really affect other series, Lost could very well be the only quality scripted dramas on television in February (along with perhaps 24, though it's far more behind in its scripts due to a major overhaul of location and storyline).
Heroes also might not have it quite so bad. This year, producers decided to break up the season into "volumes," and the first volume is set to come to an end the first week of December. It's likely that the wait for the second volume would simply extend until after the strike is over, so at least fans would have a natural break in the storyline.
And then you have the more depressing scenarios. For starters, there are producers like Joss Whedon, whose new series Dollhouse has been catapulting forward with lightning speed, only to be derailed for the time being from the strike. "I will be busy picketing," Whedon told me yesterday. "I support the guild, and I think what we are doing is unfortunate, but necessary. And that means I don't get to have my fun, but that isn't the point."
It's also a grim story for new series and especially Chuck and Gossip Girl boss Josh Schwartz, whose two new series have been gaining serious momentum and buzz--but must come to a screeching halt. Sources tell me that Gossip Girl lost a cover of Entertainment Weekly because of the strike (it might not be on the air when the cover would come out) and that Chuck will not receive news of a full-season pickup until after the strike is over. "I support the guild," Schwartz told me. "But it's unfortunate for everyone, all the way around."
Bottom line: We'll have our shows all this month for November sweeps, then notice a noticeable dip in new programming (as usual) in December, and will really start to see the affects of this strike in January or February.
En résumé, ceux qui vont commencer à souffrir seront les shows écrits au jour le jour en fonction de l'actualité, et elle met l'accent sur le
Daily Show : je le regarde moi aussi tous les jours et ma came quotidienne de DS va vite me manquer...
(heureusement j'ai toutes les émissions de 2003 à 2006 en réserve à regarder mais bon...)
Ensuite les soap opéras, là on s'en fout, ensuite les vraies séries commenceront à en pâtir en janvier-février, et seront remplacées par des rediffusions ou (argh !) de la Real-TV.
Comme tout le monde, elle ignore si la grève durera cinq jours ou cinq mois comme celle de 88.
Lost est la série qui pourrait le mieux s'en sortir car 14 à 16 épisodes seraient déjà écrits, soit la saison 4 complète, et pourrait même être, avec
24 mais c'est moins sûr, le seul drama "de qualité" à diffuser de l'inédit en février.
Heroes devrait avoir bouclé le premier volume de la saison (qui devait en compter trois) et ne pas s'achever, si la grève était longue, sans avoir fini une partie de l'histoire, donc relativement "proprement".
La nouvelle série de Whedon,
Dollhouse avec Eliza Duschku, pourrait malheureusement être victime de la grève.
Chuck et
Gossip Girl sont menacées, la première car elle ne se verra accorder une saison qu'après la fin de la grève, la seconde pour avoir perdu une couverture d'
Entertainment Weekly en raison de l'incertitude de diffusion lorsque le numéro sortira (et avoir donc perdu une belle page de pub).
La conclusion est qu'on est encore tranquille pour deux mois (sauf pour le Daily Show et consorts
) mais après...
Edit 03/11 : Jon Stewart a annoncé en fin d'émission jeudi qu'il n'y aurait pas d'émissions la semaine prochaine, dans un speech très drôle mais évidemment très triste...
