"William George Ferguson" <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:26:43 GMT, "windowwasher"
> <windowwasher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:vlvui39i396t7ehbmh3eh1472gteuco597@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> However, movies have *much* longer lead times than TV shows do, which
>>> is why X-Files 2 remains unaffected. The script was complete, so they
>>> can film it, conversely, the turnover time for television scripts is
>>> so quick that most shows have only 2-3 more episodes to film before
>>> they run out of scripts, but they've also already finished shooting
>>> around 3 episodes yet to air besides the 2-3 more that they can shoot,
>>> so most series are going to have another 5-6 episodes air before the
>>> strike imposes a hiatus due to lack of scripts. Fortunately, the
>>> timing coincides more or less with regular winter hiatus anyway, so
>>> while TV hasn't been able to bank hardly any scripts, the truth of the
>>> matter is that the filming schedule won't really be disrupted until
>>> the cast & crew would normally come back after winter hiatus to start
>>> filming new episodes that won't have been written.
>>>
>
>>Aren't scripts often rewritten as shooting commences/occurs? What's the
>>effect of the strike on rewrites/edits?
>>
>
> The DGA contract requires that scripts be made available to the director
a
> minimum of two weeks before the episode is to be start shooting (to give
> the director prep time). The guild actually cracked down on the worst
> offenders of that (including the West Wing) a couple of years ago.
>
> Rewrites are WGA work, and so are out, edits (prior to or while
shooting)
> are director work (or editors work after shooting) and so are still in
> (just because a writer wrote some dialogue doesn't mean the actor has to
> say it).
>
>
> --
> "Oh Buffy, you really do need to have
> every square inch of your ass kicked."
> - Willow Rosenberg
Thanks for the info.
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