Yoshi wrote:
The one good thing about the writer's strike is that it may potentially force CBS to bring the Amazing Race 13 this season- however, it runs the risk of being rushed through production and of lesser quality.
However, I'm gonna miss Heroes (the season finally feels like it kicked in, and now it's being taken away after 4 more episodes - Tim Kring's
being really nice about it though), House (status unknown, but definitely will be affected eventually), the Office (Jenna Fischer says one of her favourite scripts was supposed to be shot but didn't make it to production in time, so now there's only one episode left), and Avatar (status unknown), and of course the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, which were off on the first day of the strike.
One bit of good news: I doubt Avatar will be affected. I could be wrong about this, but animated shows have to be written MONTHS in advance because of the time it takes to send things to Korea to be drawn. Seeing as 11 episodes of Avatar have already been released, they should finish season 3. At least I hope.
What I'm wondering is why shows like The Daily Show or the late-night talk shows can't survive for a few weeks without writers. After 15 years of hosting his own show, you would think Jay Leno would be able to deliver a few 10-minute monologues without having teams of writers write jokes for him.