Breaking Bad Kept Hankįor some actors, the writers strike might have actually kept them gainfully employed. Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart became A Daily Show With Jon Stewart, highlighting the importance of his writing staff in creating his show, day in and day out. Jon Stewart showed solidarity with the WGA by (briefly) renaming his show.

Those missing two episodes were added to seasons five and six of the series, respectively, but we’ll never know what exactly we “lost” in season four.

Due to the strike, it had to cut two episodes from its season order. Season four of Lost had shot 8 of 16 episodes before the writers strike. But the troubles may have begun with the ’07–’08 writers strike. Abrams-had trouble sticking its ending (so, they were in purgatory the whole time?). Lost Lost Two EpisodesĮlder millennials will remember that Lost-the hit mystery plane-crash show from J.J. Here are a few of the wildest ways that Hollywood coped-for better or, mostly, for worse-with the 2007–2008 writers strike, producing some compelling, unexpected, and ultimately weird work along the way. In the wake of that long pause, with no writers to pen popular shows that were already on air like Lost, Friday Night Lights, and 30 Rock-or perform rewrites on existing screenplays such as Quantum of Solace-television and film got, well, a little wonky. It’s the WGA’s first strike in 15 years, since the approximately 12,000-member branch comprised of film and television writers shut their laptops and took to the picket lines from November 5, 2007, to February 12, 2008.

On Monday, the Writers Guild of America officially voted to strike after devoting weeks to negotiating a new contract with Hollywood’s major studios.

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