Originally Posted by
Skizo
No. This won't affect most television at all. Shows are created and filmed months, sometimes years in advance.
That's not necessarily true. Most full season shows (20+ episodes) are filmed in advance, sure, but they're only ahead a few weeks. Some shows, take Smallville for example because that's one of the shows I've read this about, are even writing and filming a possible cliffhanger if those strikes would make a continuation of the season impossible. Then you'd have a couple of full season shows shortened to 10-15 episodes with most likely shoddy writing, hasty plots and a big turn-off for a final episode that shouldn't have been there at all.
I think it's a real concern that the viewer will be directly affected, but it won't really hurt the TV trackers all that much because they have other stuff to bridge the time.
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