How Much Could the Writers Strike Cost the Economy?

More than $20 million a day!

That is, according to one totally and completely not impartial observer!

"As thousands of TV and film writers marched along Hollywood Boulevard in the third week of their strike, film officials put a price tag on the potential economic toll of the walkout," reports the Los Angeles Times. "Los Read More

Poets and the Strike

The Hollywood screenwriters strike is only two weeks old, and already my life has changed. Why, you ask? You see, I write poems. Normally, I am treated with lightly veiled condescension. “I understand you’re a poet,” a new acquaintance will observe, in the same tone that he might say, “I hear you’re a wheelwright” or Read More

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Plunge in Repeats

Ouch!

TV Decoder reports that the writers’ strike has already delivered a nasty lashing to Comedy Central’s smirk-some duo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Both ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ with Stephen Colbert were forced into repeats on Nov. 5. Since then, in the demographic of viewers ages 25-to-54, Read More