In fact, during the five years prior to the writers strike, viewership for Emmy-winning drama series actually fell 12% the following season.
The Academy Awards opened with host Jon Stewart joking about the recently ended writers strike -- which forced a cutback in the Golden Globes and threatened the Oscars as well -- and commenting on the bleakness of the best picture nominees.
The network's lack of reality stalwarts became particularly visible--and damaging--during last season's writers' strike.
If this trend continues, it will make even a prolonged writers' strike seem inconsequential.
His network desperately needs big ratings after its script-heavy schedule took a hit during the 100-day writers' strike.
Yes, ABC handled Pushing Daisies horribly after the writers' strike, but more people should have continued to support it.
As its competitors suffered ratings declines--care of the 100-day writers' strike--Fox will round out the current season with more viewers.
The Los Angeles writers' strike has shuttered late-night talk shows and will almost certainly set back a few drama series.
According to a person familiar with the negotiations, however, this was because of the Hollywood writers' strike over new media.
Hosting the Oscars tonight is Jon Stewart, who's been onstage riffing about the bitter writers' strike that was recently resolved.
The Academy Awards show, much like the industry it celebrates, is in a state of uncertainty, thanks to Hollywood's protracted writers' strike.
CBS' script-heavy schedule was the hardest hit by the 100-day writers' strike.
Ditto for much of what Hollywood has to offer, especially given the dearth of new shows due to the TV writers' strike.
And despite a 100-day writers' strike and unsettled Screen Actor's Guild business that continues to steal headlines, he has every reason to be.
The last writers' strike, in 1988, resulted in a 22-week work interruption that not only delayed the TV season but crippled the industry.
The network, which like its competitors was delayed by the writers' strike, is also developing several other pilots to premiere as early as November.
The last writers' strike in 1988 resulted in a 22-week work stoppage that not only delayed the TV season, but also crippled the industry.
Though he got something of a free pass when the writers' strike wreaked havoc on last year's fare, this season is a different story.
While Hollywood focuses on the writers' strike, this former math teacher has a different obsession: keeping the flailing NBC sci-fi yarn Journeyman on the air.
Forbes.com spoke to Ostroff about how she measures a hit and what will happen to the fledging network if the looming writers' strike becomes a reality.
Ad spending on cable TV and syndication TV--both better positioned than script-heavy broadcast networks to weather the Hollywood writers' strike--saw gains of 3.1% and 10.2%, respectively.
Over the next three and a half years CBS stumbled through a protracted writers' strike that crippled Hollywood and into the near-collapse of the advertising market.
Late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien plan to return with fresh episodes on Jan. 2, ending two months of reruns care of the Hollywood writers' strike.
I'm into awards more than I'm into other TV, and I've realized in the wake of the writers' strike how much I kind of miss that drama.
With the television landscape becoming more fragmented and the writers' strike wiping out much of the medium's scripted offerings, the opportunities to reach big audiences are increasingly rare.
Though slightly better pay for use of new media--the issue at the center of the writers' strike--was agreed upon, the topic was largely tabled until the next negotiation.
The 100-day writers' strike contributed to--and accelerated--the international shopping spree.
In late 2007, with Hollywood on the verge of a writers' strike, Whedon decided to step outside the studio system and produce a Web series about an inept villain.
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