Quick (strike) news…
By fred | December 18, 2007
- NBC announced that, after Law & Order: Criminal Intend, which was sent back to USA before the strike, then brought back to the big network to help during the strike, two more series will be treated the same : both Monk and Psych are scheduled to appear on NBC on Sundays in March. New episodes still air on USA first, of course. Meaning at NBC, there’s not hope that by March the situation will be resolved.
- Many people are guessing that it might takes weeks if not months only to get the AMPTP and the WGA to talk again. Producer Dick Wolf - of all the Law & Order series fame - kinda agrees, although he wishes people (read AMPTP and co) would realize how important things are, and how badly they’re hurting the television business : “This is a disaster for the television business. My sincerest hope (…) is that people get their heads on straight. It’s an absolute necessity. (…) I have a horrifying feeling it’s going to be longer unless it solved in the next 10 days or two weeks. It could be a horrifically long strike.”
- Not strike-related : CBS had an explosive year, and they are hoping that 2008 will be even better :
