Dark age is coming for TV-addicts by Martina Fischerova

Bad news appeared last days for TV addicts either Hollywood producers. Members of the Writer Guilt of America voted unanimity for calling the strike last week. The cause is simple &money. The talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have continued since july without any noticeable progress. The source of the problem is that the writers demanding more money from the sale of DVDs and a share of revenue generated by the sale of TV shows and films over the Internet. Writers say the strike will last untill studios offer a more lucrative deal. The producers said it couldn't be reached. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced that writers unreasonable proposals would result in astronomical increases in producers costs." But WGA is not all alone in their opinion - The Screen Actors Guild faces the same royalty issues as writers, and its president, Alan Rosenberg, expressed support for them last week. The worst what could happen is the immediate affect on TV program followed by loosing viewers and cause financial troubles to producers. First talkshows which are dependent on current events will dissapear from our TV screens since one or two weeks. Daytime soap operas would run out of episodes within a month, primetime sitcoms and dramas would last for 6 to 12 weeks. So far famous series as Lost, Desperate houswives and others would stop in next january or february because development of new series for next season would be cut short. The major networks would be forced to fill their schedules with repeats, newsmagazines and reality-TV series, all of which are unaffected by the strike. We can just hope that these two sides will find common speech soon and the viewers won' t get bored to death without their belowed shows and series watching repeats all the time.

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by Martina Fischerova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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