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Writer's Strike?

Magitroopa wrote 29 days ago: 2

With the writer's strike now officially ongoing, thought it would be a good idea to ask: how exactly do we handle that here? For example, we currently list the typical late night shows having new episodes tonight, despite most of them now being shut down.

Do we leave them up until a rerun/something else is airing at the supposed time? Remove certain episodes as the days continue on? Something else I haven't thought of?...

I think that would be the main impact the writer's strike will have on TVmaze specifically- unless there's other stuff I'm not thinking of that will be affected too?

Magitroopa wrote 29 days ago: 1

@WalkingTall I see that you deleted episodes off of late night shows- FYI, The Daily Show is also affected by the strike as well (unfortunately, I just created a whole bunch of new episodes the other day...)


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JuanArango wrote 29 days ago: 1

Episodes that are not airing because of the writer's strike need to be deleted. :)

Magitroopa wrote 29 days ago: 1

@JuanArango wrote:
Episodes that are not airing because of the writer's strike need to be deleted. :)

Could The Daily Show be fixed up then? Not sure if all the upcoming episodes need to be deleted at once or if it should be taken as a day-by-day basis, but tonight's episode is clearly not happening.


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WalkingTall wrote 29 days ago: 1

It's a military radio response meaning yes sir or ma'am.    

Magitroopa wrote 29 days ago: 1

@WalkingTall wrote:
It's a military radio response meaning yes sir or ma'am.    

That would probably explain why I didn't know it then :P

I'll also just say that doing this on a day-by-day basis will lead to incorrect numbering (such as on TDS now that tonight's episode has been deleted, it now skips over 53), I'd say that given the circumstances, we can probably ignore the numbering for the time being and clean it up whenever episodes resume again.


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jcar03 wrote 29 days ago: 1

SNL is also dark so no Pete Davidson episode this week.  https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/saturday-night-live-writers-strike-goes-dark-1235601371/


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CosmicHowl wrote 29 days ago: 1

@Magitroopa wrote:
That would probably explain why I didn't know it then :P

I'll also just say that doing this on a day-by-day basis will lead to incorrect numbering (such as on TDS now that tonight's episode has been deleted, it now skips over 53), I'd say that given the circumstances, we can probably ignore the numbering for the time being and clean it up whenever episodes resume again.

All episodes have been deleted. The last writers strike lasted 14 weeks, hopefully this one won't be as long :)


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LadyShelley wrote 29 days ago: 2

@CosmicHowl wrote:
All episodes have been deleted. The last writers strike lasted 14 weeks, hopefully this one won't be as long :)

If it does last that long, you can expect the fall television season to be delayed. Fall episodes start filming in August so episodes need to be ready to go by early July for productions to have time to secure locations and such. 

Also remember SAG-AFTRA and the DGA are right behind the WGA to negotiate their next contracts and they are asking for some of the same things (recomputation of residuals for streaming being one example) 

suemac wrote 23 days ago: 1

Came across several comments elsewhere about the strike going long. Today 5/8 a NYT article includes the following snippets: 

One analyst speculated that the writers’ strike could go on long enough to effect the Emmy Awards, scheduled for Sept. 18, and delay the fall TV season.
The writers and entertainment companies remain far apart on several key issues, including money, and the standoff could last for months.
 

Specific shows mentioned in the article already affected (to unknown degree) are:

Apple TV+: Still, Loot, Severance
Showtime: Billions
Netflix: Stranger Things
HBO Max: Hacks

suemac wrote 5 days ago: 1

@LadyShelley wrote:
These sorts of articles are interesting, but not anything we can really add here as soo many shows are listed in these briefs. 

Right. I should have preferenced it something like "if any one is interested". Didn't mean for article to be added. Thanks.

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