Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Writers Strike Averted!
Late Monday night, television producers and writers reached a last-minute deal, narrowly averting a strike.
That may not seem like such a big deal, but last time the writers went on strike-- in 2007-- it was kind of a disaster for American culture. Networks scrambled to create largely unscripted reality shows to fill the gap. Among other horrors, that era gave us "Fat March," a show where fat people were made to march along the highway:
That may not seem like such a big deal, but last time the writers went on strike-- in 2007-- it was kind of a disaster for American culture. Networks scrambled to create largely unscripted reality shows to fill the gap. Among other horrors, that era gave us "Fat March," a show where fat people were made to march along the highway:
