Honestly, I'm a little confused about their point with that one. I mean, if their whole message is, "Entertainment doesn't exist without writers writing scripts," that clip kinda proves otherwise, no?

Well, the whole thing does. But I wouldn't want to watch that ALL the time ;)

I really like "what's on the page?"

As the writers strike enters into it's second calendar year, how is everyone holding up?

I have to say that without the occasional news report on the subject I doubt I'd even know there was a strike. How about you?

We'll definitely notice when we have no new shows to watch. However, since I'm moving to France I actually won't feel too bad because I won't miss much. Except for Lost. I am bummed about that. I'll have to catch up with the DVDs.

Haha, that was great.

I heard that Leno etal were back on the air - where's the backlash? I'm not hearing about any.

Backlash from whom? The writers? They'll be picketing Leno/O'Brien and Stewart/Colbert but not Letterman and Ferguson (since Worldwide Pants reached a separate agreement, an option not available to Leno/O'Brien since NBC owns those shows).

I imagine Leno will get the brunt of it since he's in LA and the others are in NY. It'll be interesting to see what the unwritten shows do and how funny they are (and if they're funny they're going to run into charges of being written under the table).

I'm still not clear on exactly what The Colbert Report is going to be like. Leno/O'Brien/Stewart are themselves on the show and call fall back on that. But the Stephen Colbert of the show is a character and one that is, in my opinion, weakest when he's not scripted (such as in the interviews). The Word is out as a segment. Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger is out. Threat List. Except for a 5 minute interview at the end, the entire show is and pretty much must be scripted. I can see Stewart massively expanding the interviews but I really don't want to see Colbert doing 20 minute interviews, at least not in character.

Leno and O'Brien go back on the air tonight with picket lines out front (Leno will have Huckabee as a guest tonight and he will have to cross the picket line).

Letterman and Ferguson will be back without picket lines as Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants, reached a separate settlement with the writers, so there will be no picketers (WWP also owns Ferguson's show).

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Don't even get me started on the trailer for this season of LOST. After 3 full episodes to get resuced off the island "some of the stranded passengers" then to have to go back to the island you spend how much time on? Stupid if you ask me. I could so have written this better than the blasted writers...ugh...not sure i'm gonna watch this season at all...hopefully i'll be working the night it comes back on the air...