The likes of HBO, Showtime and FX/FXX are in decent shape for the short term, with Succession‘s final season and Yellowjackets currently airing, and Mayans MC‘s final season on FX, HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, Showtime’s Ghosts of Beirut and FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16 on tap for summer. Image Credit: 'True Detective: Night Country' (Courtesy of HBO) Image Credit: 'WandaVision' (Courtesy of Disney+)Īs the networks stare at blank spaces on their schedule board, might broadcasters “borrow” from their streaming siblings?Ĭould ABC fill a few nights with, say, the first seasons of The Mandalorian and/or WandaVision?Ĭould Criminal Minds: Evolution‘s entire freshman run get a CBS showcase? Maybe Bel-Air Season 1 on NBC? How else might the networks fill upcoming gaps? That brings us to…. To abate such lulls to even a small degree, a few shows (including NBC’s La Brea, Night Court and Quantum Leap) raced into production on their next seasons this spring, so as to bank at least a couple of scripts/episodes for the 2023-24 season. So, each week of work stoppage could roughly translate into a similar delay in the onset of the fall TV season. Fire & Rescue docuseries from Dick Wolf remains on track for its July 7 debut.īut right about now is when returning and new shows would start to staff up for the 2023-24 TV season, and writers rooms usually open after Memorial Day. Image Credit: 'Quantum Leap' (Courtesy of NBC)īy and large, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW won’t exhibit any immediate impact from the strike as the regular TV season winds down and already-scripted finales are filmed - albeit without any last-minute tweaks.Īmong the shows/seasons yet to premiere and those with summertime finale dates, Nancy Drew completed filming its upcoming farewell season in December, Riverdale‘s final-season scripts are all completed, Superman & Lois is wrapped on Season 3, NBC’s The Blacklist wrapped its series finale on May 1, and NBC’s L.A. The sketch comedy institution will air repeats “until further notice.” SNL was set to air a new episode this Saturday, May 6 with former cast member Pete Davidson returning to host, but that has now been cancelled due to the strike, NBC announced on Tuesday. Note: Interview-based talk shows are not affected by the strike. HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, which respectively don’t air until Friday and Sunday, have also decided to go dark.įox News’ Gutfeld!, however, plans to keep on keeping on, seeing as its host and staff are reportedly non-union. Shuttered late-night talkers were the first symptom of the strike, as NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Meyers, CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show all went dark effective May 2, and plan to air reruns. Which shows will feel the strike first? What sorts of programs are not affected?Read on for an overview of how broadcast, cable, streaming, daytime, late-night and other shows will be impacted. economy a reported $2 billion.Īnd the current WGA membership is steeled to strike just as long, if not longer, given the disparity between what they are seeking in a new contract, and what the AMPTP is thus far offering. The 2007-08 WGA strike, which lasted 100 days and came at midseason, resulted in truncated seasons for shows such as 30 Rock, The Big Bang Theory, Brothers & Sisters, three CSIs, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, NCIS, The Office, Scrubs and Two and a Half Men - to name just a few of the programs that wound up producing half or less of their seasons. That dictates a finite supply of scripted material for the networks to live off of in the weeks/months to come. What’s more, anything that was already written before the strike commenced cannot be edited during production.Īs TV vet Mike Royce detailed on Twitter, “If a show continues production on a script that was written before the strike, there may not be ANY ALTERATIONS to that script made by ANYONE while the WGA is on strike. Let’s see if we can help you sort through what’s what, depending on the types of shows you watch.īut first, a primer: According to WGA guidelines, once a work stoppage is underway, members are barred from writing, nor can they pitch or negotiate for work. The Writers Guild of America strike got underway on May 2, raising lots of questions about the future of TV shows that are currently airing/streaming, as well as those due to be coming down the pike.
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