Who remembers the 2007-8 Writers Guild Strike? (cost, ratings, favorite)
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If I'm not mistaken, the Writer's Guild strike was the launching point for "reality TV". (insert vomit emoji here)
Definitely not. The Real World is largely regarded as the show that kicked off the trend, and it started in 1992. And plenty of very popular shows (Big Brother, Survivor, American Idol, Amazing Race, Americas Next Top Model, and many others) got their start looong before the 2007 strike.
Definitely not. The Real World is largely regarded as the show that kicked off the trend, and it started in 1992. And plenty of very popular shows (Big Brother, Survivor, American Idol, Amazing Race, Americas Next Top Model, and many others) got their start looong before the 2007 strike.
Hmmm, you are correct. I wonder why I have that stuck in my brain??!! Thanks for the correction!
Who remembers the strike launched by the Writers Guild of America in 2007 and 2008? Did it affect your favorite shows?
I do--the hacks they hired to take the place of the writers totally ruined "Friday Night Lights" and several of my favorite soap operas with their bizarre, incomprehensible plots and the characters' abrupt about-face personality changes.
Definitely not. The Real World is largely regarded as the show that kicked off the trend, and it started in 1992. And plenty of very popular shows (Big Brother, Survivor, American Idol, Amazing Race, Americas Next Top Model, and many others) got their start looong before the 2007 strike.
I think the granddaddy of them all was "An American Family" which ran on PBS in the early '70's. It was the first "reality" series of any kind.
It caused NBC to cancel my favorite show Las Vegas.
It caused Michael Bay to single handily write Transformers Revenge of the Fallen which is just a mess of a story that makes no sense that has so many plot holes and is all over the place.
So many good shows lost to the qaugmire of financial and contractual disputes. It annoyed the viewers but in reality hurt some actors careers severely. Seemed like a few actors fell of the face of the earth. Struggling to recall names.
It caused NBC to cancel my favorite show Las Vegas.......
Comme ce, comme ca.
While I loved "Las Vegas", it was only when it was on Friday. It was a wonderful way to greet the weekend.
When they moved it to, Tuesday was it?, it dropped off the radar for me. Partly, probably, because of classes and that "overflow" from the weekend usually meant I was sleep deprived and could not watch TV before Wednesday but partly because its timestamp was then out of reach of the weekend.
TV shows are timestamped by their commercials. Shows on Thursday are showing commercials for the weekend such as what movies open up on Friday, what is the sale at Macy's, and commercials for Lowe's and car dealerships.
Back to the subject, by then, TV was in its last gasps of life for me, because ......
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Originally Posted by hertfordshire
Definitely not. The Real World is largely regarded as the show that kicked off the trend, and it started in 1992. And plenty of very popular shows (Big Brother, Survivor, American Idol, Amazing Race, Americas Next Top Model, and many others) got their start looong before the 2007 strike.
Yes, something like that.
My TV line up on Tuesday, once upon a time, was often PBS NOVA, the discovery channel of The New Detectives (which the VCR was recording) while I was having dinner at Mom's and watching "Judging Amy".
Around 2005 or so, I was shocked to realize that Judging Amy was ending.....and reality TV was moving in. Discovery channel went "Biker" and started showing essentially junk. While NOVA didn't disappear, the difficulties of continuing with a VCR soon dashed my continual watching.
So while the strike was a while after such a format change, it certainly didn't help the status of things.
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The quality of broadcast TV really went down after that...maybe they brought in really cheap, untalented writers?
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