It's slowly returning to business as usual in Hollywood this week. Following an agreement reached this weekend between the Writer's Guild of America and the producers, the long strike is over.Showrunners returned to work on Monday and writers started back yesterday with production set to begin on new episodes in the next couple of weeks. The deal agreed upon gives the writers a share of the digital distribution rights they sought, though subsequent analysis has many questioning who the winner of the strike will be in the long-run.
Writers and many others are declaring the show of solidarity a resounding success, but the strike forced networks to fill the airways with cheap reality programing that has preformed relatively well in the ratings. Now studios are promising to spend less on pilots in the future.
The strike disrupted production on several shows that will not return this season. Including ratings powerhouses "24" and "Heros." The cost of the strike, which began November 5th, was crippling to the economy in Southern California. Estimates are at $2 billion, which is quadruple the damaged that the 1988 writer's strike caused.
- Jason Levin
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