Hollywood Writers’ Strike Finally Ends
February 13, 2008 
Hollywood writers agreed to a contract with producers, ending the strike that essentially closed down Hollywood and separated fans from new episodes of their favorite shows for more than three months:
A devastating, three-month walkout that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill ended Tuesday when Hollywood writers voted to lift their union’s strike order and return to work Wednesday.
The move allows some TV series to return this spring with a handful of new episodes. It also clears the way for the Academy Awards to be staged on Feb. 24 without the threat of pickets or a boycott by actors that would have dulled the glamour of Hollywood’s signature celebration.
So the writers will return and with them (eventually) new episodes of shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, and House. And let’s not forget that the late night comedy shows will get their writers back, which is definitely good news for Jay Leno. Man, did he stink it up without comedy to read!
All that this three months of drama really did was get writers a little bit more of what they deserve, annoy the hell out of television viewers, and expose TV as a dying medium and delivery method.
Whether the networks like it or not, the future is in Internet television, where true convergence will allow viewers to choose what shows they want to watch, when they want to watch them, and without worry of new shows getting cancelled after two episodes.
