After three long months, the writers' strike has finally come to an end. The walkout had severely crippled the television industry, but now that its all over, networks are scrambling to get their shows back on production in an effort to salvage the current season. The scene is different over at HBO, however, with
Big Love co-creator Will Scheffer saying that they won't be in production for at least another three months.
“It's great we can have that much time to work on the quality of the show,” Scheffer told the
Los Angeles Times. “A lot of networks will be rushing things into production, and people won't have much time to think.”
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Recent reports also indicate that
Big Love's third season, which, like fellow HBO series
Entourage, originally had been scheduled to begin in the summer, won't hit the screen until late this year or even early 2009.
When the strike commenced in November,
Big Love writers were in the middle of drafting the first six episodes of the show's new season. Despite the disruption, Scheffer says a lot of good came out of the strike. For one, the unexpected break gave them the opportunity to rethink some of their ideas for the show, which means that they'll most likely be revising the original material a bit.
“That's an interesting effect of the strike: That forced downtime changes your creative mandate in a way that never would have happened had there not been a strike," he said. "We'll revisit all the scripts. There will be some minor changes and maybe a few major changes that we didn't expect that kind of presented themselves.”
For another, the strike has given the writers a more "substantial" position in Hollywood, as well as a fair stake at revenues generated from new media.
“I think we showed there is an importance to the work, to scripts, that couldn't be underestimated. That's a huge aspirational thing," Scheffer explained. "But the more practical result is that I think we have established the beginning of jurisdiction in the Internet model in which we will be able to negotiate fair value for our work created for the Internet."
-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Los Angeles Times
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