I don't know about anyone else here but I for one hope the strike
lasts a long time (more than a year) and realy gets Hollywood to clean
up their act.
Lets start with the writers wanting a cut of the DVD sales.
Ok when you get a blank DVD at Staples it costs $.64. Now
you figure that when a studio makes a DVD set they're not
paying the $.64 each retail. They probably get it at
cost through the distrution channels they already own,
so in reality that DVD probably actually costs them
a fraction of the $.64 you pay at Staples. (Maybe $.10
before the markup?)
So that DVD set you just slapped down $44 to buy, they're
making a healthy profit from it. Now they may counter
the $44 covers the cost of making the show. A show
that has already been paid for between ad revenue,
and the price the network pays the studio to buy the show.
We won't even get into substandard writing, mediocre
scripts that the producers should torn to shreasds
and insisted they be re-written.
I can see this strike lasting for at least a year,
viewers discover other things like the internet,
going outside, socializing with real people,
video games, excercize, etc. And then the
strike gets settled, and viewers are nowhere
to be seen. They're enjoying the other stuff
they've discovered in the mean time to much
to go back and watch substandard tv.
It is now November of 2007, I have yet
to find a single show on TV that even
remotely comes near a quality show
like GG. Not one single show.
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