What Does the Writer’s Strike Mean for CSI?
Well folks, it looks that the weekend long closed door negotiations are not working and the strike is set to begin tomorrow. Primetime shows probably have or can squeeze a month’s worth of episodes out the scripts they already have on hand.
Let’s take the original as an example. We know that Jorja Fox’s last episode is done and set to air next week. That will be the 7th episode of the season. From what I’m hearing, they probably can or have eeked out at least four more episodes. That will give us 11 episodes for the season. After November sweeps, they usually run some reruns so we are probably going to see new episodes for the first couple of weeks in January.
There are some rumors around that shows have stockpiled scripts. Marg Helgenberger has squashed that suggestion.
“You read about this stockpiling of scripts, but in TV you don’t have enough manpower or hours in the day to stockpile.,” Marg said. “You’d have to have three staffs working 24/7 to make that happen; that’s not how it works.”
It doesn’t sound nearly as bad IF they can resolve the issues in two months time. Still it will take some time to get back on track.
At issues is profit sharing for new media like Itunes. The industry big wigs want to take a wait and see attitude with revenue but writer’s say they’ve been screwed out of revenue like that before. Think DVDs. At least 25 percent of the people I know, catch their favorite CSI on Innertube at least a few times during the season. I tend to watch in real time while recording but things happen and technology fails. The commercials aren’t nearly as plentiful online but CBS is making money from it…..
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