Hollyweird strike: Who knew “The View” had writers?
The Hollywood strike is providing ample moments of snort-worthiness. Over the weekend, I mentioned the creative suffering of fake news shows. Today we learn that “The View” will also be hit hard:
Writers and producers had gathered for negotiations Sunday at the request of a federal mediator.
The two sides met for nearly 11 hours before East Coast members of the writers union announced on their Web site that the strike had begun for their 4,000 members.
The first casualty of the strike would be late-night talk shows, which are dependent on current events to fuel monologues and other entertainment.
Daytime TV, including live talk shows such as “The View” and soap operas, which typically tape about a week’s worth of shows in advance, would be next to feel the impact.
“The View” has writers? And here I thought all those squabbling Bush-hating women came up with their own foul-mouthed lines.
(hat tip: reader Andy)
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Every talking head in Hollywood parrots someone else’s words. The actor/human-puppet parade is void of any creativity save for a very few whose work stands on its own. And most of these types aren’t featured on Doperah, The PU View or any other vapid consumer-focused pile of content.
I was wondering where Howard Dean had disappeared to! Mystery solved.
Life
unscripted.So let me see if I have this straight. Conservatives echo some party line, allegedly, but wise sages from the View are original thinkers — who need writers. Riiiiiiight.
One of the funniest aspects of this is the thought that someone else wrote Rosie’s “fire can’t melt steel”, and she ran with it. It seems to me that this is a whole new level of stupid.
The last ‘writers’ strike was in the 80’s and lasted 5+ months, lets go for a record guys – LOL.
i find most of hollywood’s writings to be appalling. my thought is that this is a good thing, fire all the writers and hire non-union. maybe ‘quality’ will once again come out of hollywood?
just a suggestion….
I want to know who wrote “For the first time in history, fire melted steel!”
From UPI:
Ahahahahaha!!! Sounds like a train-wreck waiting to happen. Please, oh please, oh please let the writers stay out until Laura Ingraham gets to substitute for Elizabeth on the 12th. They’ll all be rolling on the floor sucking their thumbs by the time she is through with them!
I’m with the writers here. Some vacuum head needs writers to form an opinion for them, yet said vacuum gets 100 times as much money?
Too bad the makeup artists aren’t going on strike. Now that would be a real hoot!
Of course, since most of the people on those shows are liberals, I guess not having makeup artists would not make much of a difference, especially in the odor control department.
When will the nightly news goes off. Surely there writers write enough fiction to be included in the WGA.
Writer’s strike??
Maybe last some months??
Please, stop teasing!
I might as well get my weekly suck-up out of the way early:
Michelle, you know that moonbat liberal women cannot have an original thought (let alone write it down) like you dear. May be why you are leading in the “Best Conservative Blog”.
Heh. I was flabbergasted to learn this as well, when Rosie’s personal head writer defaced a picture of Elisabeth Hasselbeck after their big blowup.
My personal opinion SCREW them and the liberal horse they all share:=)
No writers? We may not even notice that they’re missing.
Who wrote the part where Rosie blew her nose ON the stage?
This’ll be interesting. There was a lot less “reality” TV on the air during the last writers’ strike.
Emperor – clothes = funny!
Does this mean the next Dem debate will be a rerun?
I fear for Heroes and 24…
As socialist funny man Gary Trudeau wrote in one of his Doonesbury strips 30 years ago, ” There is no space as vacant as that of an actor without a script in their hand “
So where am I going to get my news from if The View is running re-runs??? What a tragedy…
Do we care? No. TV rots your brain – cancel your cable and set yourself free, people!
You mean the last dozen were not reruns of the first?
I’m so out of touch.
“The View” had writers? Who knew? I guess it took a whole staff of writers for the Left-leaning members of that panel to counter one Elisabeth Hasselbeck!
I don’t really follow any TV series at all, so I won’t miss the writers a bit.
Remember when The View’s former Poet Laureate’s writer gave Hasselbeck’s pictures the Sharpie treatment?
Ah, I see See-Dub beat me to it.
The funny party I’m waiting for is the local news. They have writers too. I hope they will be able to explain how exactly this strike is Bush’s fault without the writer’s help.
Now we see the proof of the old adage “put 1000 monkeys on 1000 typewriters for 1000 years, and eventually they would type out the Encyclopedia Britannica.” Put 4000 writers on TV shows and they manage to turn out garbage – as if the landfills weren’t full enough already. Glad I don’t watch TV.
Who would of thought that the geniuses in The View would require writers to come up with their outlandish talking points. I guess Hollywierd and most of our modern media are ‘stuck on stupid’ relying on this small cadre of writers to do their thinking for them. It explains a lot!
Of course. It takes more than one person to be that stupid.
“Faux News Alert”
On strike, back when it’s over.
aj
Too bad original shows like Heroes will suffer from this.
I don’t see this lasting long. Hollyweird is way more dependant on writers now-a-days to tell them what they’re suppose to be thinking than in the past.
I can’t wait to see the Hollywood elite put their collective feet in their mouths.
This will end quickly, mark my words. I don’t give it over a week.
NO WRITERS?!?!?! Speak without scripts???
Is that possible? Oh, the
humorhorror of it all!LOL
*hands AJ a cookie
He must not have seen all the non-Sean’s as 007.
OK, somebody’s got to say it.
You know, if the writers all left Hollywood and went to work as Democratic speechwriters, it would raise the IQ in both places.
The obvious dependence on writers for their wit and wisdom simply exemplifies their empty suit status. The Hollyweird are great at reading lines, but formulating significant thoughts and concepts are well beyond their high school average educations. Case in point: Barbra Streisand. Remember the time an unedited Barbra letter to Gephardt was published?
Letterman has been so bad recently, it will be hard to imagine how it could be worse. He attacks the president everynight, and looks every bit as though he is phoning in the show.
The View is complete trash. I watched it once, then felt inspired to take out the trash.
I look forward to watching the carnage.
Yes – some of my favorite shows (“Heroes”, “Chuck” and “Pushing Daisies”) might suffer.
That stinks.
Does anyone really know WHY this strike is happening? I’ve heard nothing about the motives and the negotiation snafus.
I support the strike. I hope they go on for at least 6 maybe 7 months. Ok instead of support I should say I don’t Care as I dont watch many scripted shows.
THE WRITERS’ STRIKE will probably benefit the Web. This is because of Marshall McLuhan’s theories about MEDIA and MESSAGE. TV is ‘cool’, because it draws you in, you instantly feel involved. Books are ‘hot’, you have to work harder to become involved with them.
The Web seems to be ‘warm’ — either cool or hot, depending on how you use it. Clicking on music videos is ‘cool’ use, whereas reading detailed background documents on nuclear proliferation is ‘hot’ use.
People may abandon TV if re-runs predominate, because re-runs are not very ‘cool’, not involving. Once they switch to the Web, with a wealth of information and delivery formats available, as ‘users’ (NOT ‘viewers’) they can choose what ‘temperature’ of information they want depending upon their moods and interests.
ONE GREAT THING about the Web is that it encourages reading skills.
Re-runs and more reality shows will be the result. On the plus side, maybe it will mean less money being paid to a bunch of Hollywood liberals, at least the ones in movies. No movies..no big money for the brain dead in Hollywood and less to donate the “witch who wants to be President”. I hate unions but this stike might have a silver lining.
I suspect the TV actors contracts guarantee the money so they would get paid anyway. One out of two isn’t bad.
englishqueen01
The reason the strike is going on is that writers want more money and want residuals for content provided over digital means. IE downloading TV shows over the net
If writers are on strike wouldnt their picket signs be blank?
just wondering…
aj (#44) – Ha!
englishqueen (#39) – I agree, I hope those shows won’t suffer.
How does that work? How far in advance are scripts for shows like that written and how long would the strike have to last for it to damage such programs?
Great thought AJ! My first laugh of the day.
Aj #44, they will use their code pink picket signs.
From what I understand, it’s about residuals. The writers want $.08 a DVD (they currently get $.04) and the producers want to get rid of it entirely. They also want a share of the cell/web market.
Hollywood has warpers and not writers for shows like The View and others.
I hope they have the whole season (Day?) for “24″ in the can! Can’t live w/o some aggressive interrogation.
Perhaps this could be a good thing.
1) People, especially kids, can learn to read books and not use them as paperweights for their TV Guides.
2) We don’t have to put up with “The View” spewing crap.
3) Maybe the late-night guys can actually be funny for a change and not rely on gagwriters and vapidity ala Paris Hilton.
How about a series of new reality shows using want-a-be writers to come up with scripts for other shows?
Here are a few examples:
American Writer – a show that tours the country holding tryouts for amature writers. The winner gets to write the script for the next “24″.
Night Writers – a show about scab writers working secretly at night to come up with scripts for daytime soap operas. The viewing audience gets to vote for which script gets to air.
Writing for the Stars – The winning team gets to write jokes for Leno and Conan. The losers get fired by Trump.
Who knows, the results could be better than what we’ve seen lately from the professionals and could result in either an end to the strike or an end to the use of professional writers. Either way, its better than reruns.
I am actually quite shocked… I didn’t think The View ladies had the ability to memorize lines … considering how they distort or create false facts on the fly.
Maybe with the silenced propagandists out walking the picket line … the New Media will get a chance to speak into the void.
One can only hope.
englishqueen01 and JW2
basically the current season of series episodes (24, etc.) are already close to if not completed and likely already done with writing (other than last minute changes) …
the first shows that will feel the strike are the nightly shows like Letterman and Leno, etc., and shows that comment on current news topics …
the main things the strike is over are money related … naturally …
seems the writers are not getting what they feel is their fair share of the royalties from DVD and internet fees and other media types …
in other words their current union agreements do not cover all the “new media” formats that have come along and they want them updated to include those forms …
#9
LMAO! What a wonderfully twisted mind you have! OMG! That is a beautiful thing! … Just one thought, in the future when you come up with these great ideas – please include a coffee alert on them! I nearly choked to death!
Bwahahahahaha! … I bet Laura is just salivating at the possibilities! I may call in sick to work that day! *cough*
Just the YouTube views of one of Rosie’s rants from the view could be worth a sizable chunk of cash. The “ching chong” rant by itself could buy a new hummer.
I’d like to meet the writers (was there one for each side or did they each have their own team) that put together the Rosie/Elizabeth catfight that finally got rid of Rosie.
I can’t say that I will miss them.
Ah, poor Colbert dropped his bid to be President. Guess he won’t have time to run as he’ll need to write his own material. First casualty of the strike.
Actually, they are supposed to read off their teleprompter, but that presupposes they CAN read. More likely, they merely parrot what they are told in their earpieces. I guess there’s quite an art to that – listening to what’s coming one ear, and sending out the mouth.
I am delighted by this strike. Greedy liberal millionaires who write programs bashing republicans as greedy fighting with liberal billionaires who produce programs bashing republicans as greedy.
I can survive a few days without liberal programs. Of course the left will claim that this is Bush administration censorship, but then again, no one will hear them because they are finally on strike.
Now if only Major League Baseball would go on strike again, today would be perfect.
Respectfully,
eric
http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
Goodness, they have to memorize lines AND speak too? Wow…the talent on that show is astounding. How is it they all come off so utterly stupid and offensive? I wonder if they practice their lines in front of a mirror.
eric! bite your tongue, I miss it already.
Luckily the strike happen after this past splendid season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
L Word better be on time though. I miss you Leisha Hailey. God I miss you so much.
Indeed. TV free for 2 years and counting. I don’t even miss it anymore. EVER.
Gee, I guess we will have to read, play games or talk to our loved one.
Yep, I lost most of my respect for BB when they went on strike. When they called the allstar game because they “ran out of players”, I “ran out of respect”. BB is now a way of busting AJ’s chops!
#44 You are so funny! The Democrats didn’t allow Colbert on the SC ticket because he would get all the votes.
On November 5th, 2007 at 1:08 pm, ajmontana said:
If writers are on strike wouldnt their picket signs be blank?
just wondering…
LOL! Who are you, Steven Wright? Great line AJ!
I have something to write, “Who Cares?” I mean really WFCs?…is anyone with a three digit IQ’s really going to miss soap operas?..or the View?…or the nightly talk shows? come on…these over paid washed up hacks print out this garbage, but the reality is that it’s just dusted off and rewritten crap..I’ll only miss it when they stop making Law and Order…ok ok..maybe Biggest Loser, but my wife makes me watch it with her..
This strike may be the best thing that has happened to the American viewing audience in years. A few months of re-runs of shows like Andy Griffith, Frasier and Everyone Loves Raymond would be wonderful……
Television is typically so horrific that we have considered that when analog is no longer offered, instead of buying a digital, we might just not buy a replacement television.
If it weren’t for Fox it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to me.
The union released some dollar figures the writers wanted to tap into from the internet etc.
It was in the low hundred millions. That seemed amiss to me.
The studios should fire their negotiators. What a dumb TBing strategy: Uh. Let’s see. We’ll try to cut them out of the other profits to save money but we’ll lose several billion on a long nasty strike.
DI-NO-SAURS on both sides. Where are we, France?
Still waiting for the networks to capitalize on “Biggest Loser” and go with “Biggest Flosser”.
bear this is taken from a story on my RR home page.
Great line!
With these idiot shows sidelined, maybe more people will start reading books. Maybe they’ll start getting out more and exercising. Maybe they’ll start talking to each other instead of staring at the screen.
I’m still traumatized by that The View clip that was here or at Michelle’s blog yesterday.
Hollywood holds a strike, and the rest of the Country roars with laughter !!!
Oh, the anguish. The urgency !!!
Seriously, has anybody ever heard of these shows? The John Doe Talkshow. The Acme Variety Hour.
Oh, and the Diversity !!! All white guys under 30! Yeah, this is tragic indeed.
Isn’t that about what Tom Hanks makes in. . .oh, two movies?
I don’t care about this strike. And I don’t watch TV much and rarely go to movies so this really doesn’t affect me.
It is too bad that a bunch of empty vessels like George Clooney and Tom Hanks get ridiculous amounts of money to recite words that they aren’t clever enough to come up with themselves.
I never knew Letterman or Leno had writers either. I hope this doesn’t affect BSG, we’ve been waiting for a very long time for the new season to start.
Mooseman
the lefties must really have their knickers in a twist…who is going to tell them what to do???…I for one think this is a HUGE improvement for TV.