Dozens of productions have been shut down or postponed due to the strike, which began on May 2nd.
You may or may not remember the writers’ strike of 2007-2008, but you do remember how convoluted the plot of Heroes got towards the end of season two, so that’s a good frame of reference. That strike took place for 100 days from November 2007 to February 20008, which interrupted production on basically every show you could think of at the time, besides Real Housewives which, believe it or not, is not scripted.
Now that the Writers Guild is striking again, many are wondering what this means for the next wave of shows, specifically for streaming series with overworked writers’ rooms and minimal residuals. The WGA is looking for better pay and structural changes, mostly at Netflix and other streaming services, due to the changes they ushered in.
