Hollywood's Writers' Strike

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All cudding aside, writing good ain't all that easy. Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Battlestar Galactica, 30 Rock, The Office, Pushing Daisies, Lost, these all have great relationships written in, which is what makes a good show. Compare Pixar's stuff to the latest Dreamworks, and you'll find that the main difference is that you care about the relationships between the characters.
600 one liners about bacon, and, soon to be just as many about falling cows, is diverting, but not good relationship writing. The Smoking Gun is a good example of highly important interweb entertainment making forgettable television.
There's lots of stuff on TV, just not lots of good writing.