Hollywood's Writers' Strike

[Ghoulish Delight]

My biggest worry in all of this is what it will do to Lost. I know they've got a lot of the scripts done and have begun shooting episodes, but with that show in particular, there's a lot of writing that's not done until they're very close to starting shooting, or even while they're shooting.

This must put actor/writers in an awkward position. As I understand it, if you do both for a show (e.g. B. J. NovaK on The Office), you are allowed to continue to act if they have scripts already written, but if they want to do a rewrite, no go. That's got to lead to frustration. And I wonder how much they'll try to get away with "ad-libbing" instead of "Writing" changes into scenes.