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| | Location: Copenhagen | | Joined: 09.06.06 | | Posted on 04-01-2008 09:24 |
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The Writers Guild of America has been on strike for the past two months. This has greatly impacted the various talk-shows (Daily Show, Leno, Letterman, etc), but hasn't yet had a big impact on the tv-series we all follow. This iis about to change now that the backlog of finished episodes is ebbing - so it will be more reality tv and less House, Heroes, Lost and BSG from here on 
One guy who is back on the air with his full writing staff is David Letterman. Letterman, unlike Leno and Stewart, owns his own show, and therefore agreed to all the demands of the WGA and got his writers back to work.
Since Letterman apparently runs a "writer-friendly" company he took it one step further with last nights top ten list.
The list isn't as good as it should be, since it's spoken by writers, and not stand-up entertainers, but this whole affair is a powerful message. Letterman can afford to pay what CBS, NBC and ABC can't.
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