Does anyone (dakota maybe) know what is going to happen to the soaps with the writers' strike? Will they keep going? Show reruns?
According to an acquaintance many of the soaps will have scripts into late december and early January. They film up two weeks in advance and they also shut down between Christmas and new Years. With any luck, that will bring new stuff up to about the middle of January. AFter that it is anyone's call.
After that if they continue, it will be either a few writers crossing the lines or freelance writers. I do recall the nuttiness of the writing back in the last strike via tapes and some of it was rather shaky at times. I also recall an interview that Matt had done a while back where he mentioned that they continued filming during the strike and they never knew where the scripts were coming from. However, anything filmed now will not be modified but filmed as is.
In the case of DOOL, it cant get anyworse. I have not been impressed at all with Hogan Sheffer's work. He did great on ATWT but evidently lightning does not strike twice.
In the case of DOOL, they have another pin in the casket in 08 and that will be the Olympics.
It will Soapnet but I think there they might show reruns of SoapTalk, classic soaps like Another World or the primetime ones.
I would love them to show Search for Tomorrow...