As far as the strike, everyone at some point in time, overestimates their own importance in the overall scheme of things.

I guess this means the Evening News shows will go to reruns too!

Read a book people or do something with your kids. The majority of US television is crap anyhow.

I say fire them all and start over. If the writers don’t like the going rate (and provisions for residuals, &c.) in the US, move to Britain, Canada, Australia, or wherever. Learn a new language and move there to write. Or write stuff direct to the Web! Sell advertising on your own site… who needs networks? Having writers in a union is a pretty stupid thing in the first place. Let them negotiate their own contracts on a pay-per-performance basis and let the good ones get paid what the market will bear. Let the talented survive and the rest can run the fry station.