Jon Stewart paid his writers with his own money for a full week, but that wans't enough incentive for them to continue. It seems that the only new stuff going on is reality TV (but who the hell is paying those writers?), and its disgustingly bad.
Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien are returning next week, and Carson Daly was given an ultimatum to return (go on or get cancelled..... who watches him anyway?), but not everyone stays up for late night TV.
Writers have been picketing and chanting, trying to make their case for higher wages for going on 8 weeks now. They have solid reasoning behind it too, due to people downloading shows and movies, the royalties they're supposed to get for DVDs have dwindled down to about $.09 per sale (and most DVDs cost about $20 a piece). These guys work hard, regardless of writing a 30 minute TV script or a 2 hour movie script.
Now, maybe we can't solve this problem with long night and a pot of coffee, but c'mon, people want their TV back. Maybe we'll just have to do what we were all taught from the comedies:
Give a monkey a typewriter and hope for the best.
1 comment:
YOU'RE PRETTY FUNNY. KEEP EM COMING.
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