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Missing the shows that are missing
As a professional TV viewer, the writers' strike has been a painful time. It's been rough to think about promising shows like Chuck and Dirty Sexy Money, which stopped just as they had found their footing and were developing into strong, watch-every-week series.
People's Choice Awards gives it go without writers
Hey, the Golden Globes can let the writers' strike get them down and resort to a blah press conference, but the People's Choice Awards? No sir. It's right there in the title. It's all about the people.
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The Year in Review: What Rick hasn't forgotten
Weird year, 2007. It began with the public immolation of Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington and ended with the possible immolation of TV as we know it. In between came the greatest fade to black of all time, the twee-est TV show ever to earn a full-season pickup and all kinds of really good (and some really bad) television.
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Showrunners talk strike, plus what's off
All you Colbert Report fans can go to bed a little earlier tonight, courtesy of broken-down negotiations between writers and the media conglomerates who employ them.
What a writers' strike means for your TV habit
The Writers Guild of America's contract with movie and TV producers expires at midnight Oct. 31, and barring a last-minute breakthrough in what have been singularly unproductive negotiations so far, a strike is a very real possibility.
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