Writer's Guild Strike Roundup

Writers Held Hostage: Day 3

Note: We will only do one post per day on the strike. That way, all the strike news that breaks can be in one place, not all over the blog. Look for the roundup every evening around 9 p.m. (CT) or so.

- Was the WGA dumped by Hollywood executives to drop the DVD demands? Nikke Fine of LA Weekly has the details here.

-Fox has postponed the season premiere of 24 indefinitely, citing the strike as a reason. You can access the official press release and the rest of Fox's 2007-08 season plans on this guy's blog by clicking here.

- The cast of Grey's Anatomy walked off the set today, joining the writers on the picket line. Meanwhile, another ABC show, Big Shots, was interrupted by picketers while shooting on location.

- More causalities of the strike - ABC's Desperate Housewives (which wrapped today) and Pushing Daisies, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and CBS' Rules of Engagement. Meanwhile, Eva Longoria Parker served pizza to striking writers, but they were not impressed (actually, they were pissed off.)

- And Fox's Family Guy may become an unexpected victim of the strike - creator Seth MacFarlane told Variety that this Sunday's episode is the last original one available to air. Meanwhile, South Park, rumored to be shut down because of the strike, aired a new episode tonight. The creators of that show - Matt Stone and Trey Parker, are known to make last minute changes to the script right before airtime.

- If the strike continues, scores to jobs -from writer's assistants to production managers - may be soon out of work.

- And viewers don't seem to care about the strike - thanks to ton of entertainment options and the ability to fill the schedule with reality shows, which doesn't use writers (union writers anyway.) The writer's strike is ranking right up there with a Florida Panthers-Carolina Hurricanes hockey game, which is not a good sign.

- And according to this Wall Street Journal article, advertisers don't seem to be concerned about the strike - yet anyway, thanks to the tight ad market and the all-important Christmas season coming up. But they might be concerned the longer this goes on.