WGA Strike Ends

After 100 days the Writers Guild strike is over! 92.5% of the ballots cast were in favor of ending the strike and 283 votes of the 3,775 were in favor of continuing to picket and hold out for more.

The informal negotiations that finally broke the impasse is largely creditedto News Corp.’s Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger who stepped in only a month ago when the talks had come to a stand still. While their end goal was the same both companies had different reasons for reaching them. Disney owned ABC struggles without new content and Fox relies heavily on its motion picture group to succeed.

It looks like new episodes will start to come back in late March early April and the shows will be able to go on as scheduled, just shy of a full season (roughly 24 episodes). Already Disney has renewed nine shows for next year and no word as of now whether or not the regular season might head into the early summer months.

So, welcome back writers, and everyone else who has been displaced by the strike. Let’s get countless movies and TV shows up and running again and hopefully take away some of the reality programming that has been crowding the program schedules for the last few weeks.


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