Only the first half. This is official from Ron Moore, on his blog.
It’s actually a relief for me, because I’m so behind on so many TV shows, and it’s nice to not build up the list even more with new stuff.
However, it’s annoying how nothing is getting cancelled, so it’s too soon to tell which new shows to check out and which ones to forget existed.
Much of my world news is from Jon Stewart. It’s strange that nothing new has happened on Earth in the last 2 months.
With nothing new on TV I have time to make my girlfriend get through the entire season of Firefly, and now that the 3rd season of Lost is out…
Fuck yes, I’m affected. Damn it, I love scripted TV, and I’m paying for it. I LOVE television. Whether it’s scripted, reality, edutainment (yes, I said edutainment) or whatever. It’s entertainment just like anything else, and to varying degrees I love fictional, episodic stories.
Heroes, LOST, Eureka, BSG, Journeyman, Always Sunny in Philly, the list goes on… It’s all good, and I want as much of it as possible.
I support the writers on this front, but DAMN. It’s gonna be a dry spring.
Jon and Steven.
That’s…well…that’s it.
Doesn’t affect me at all, as far as I can tell. I never watch any of the episodic network serials or talk shows. I don’t get any of the Big 4 networks, but I wouldn’t watch that sort of program anyway. Diogenes could write them all, for all I care 
Add me to the Stewart/Colbert withdrawal crowd. The weird thing is that not seeing these two comedy programs is such an ‘information void’- they give more real news in a few minutes than CNN/Fox News will give in several hours (tonight on Larry King: some pompous actor who’s promoting movies and talking about teenage bedwettin/tonight on Anderson Cooper: is Drew Petersen the last descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalen?/tonight on Lou Dobbs: Mexicans Delendo Est////Tonight on Fox News: Fox News).
A friend of mine just canceled his cable TV. I wonder what would happen if everyone started doing that?
I could live just fine w/out cable for awhile, but the SO would never give up her constant Law & Order reruns and cooking shows.
Too bad she never actually cooks. 
Well, I don’t think it has effected my porn watching that much. Although some of the plots seem kind of flat, I guess.
The first effect it had on me is that there was no Desperate Housewives for me and the wife to watch this week. But the timing works well, as this week we finally got the 3rd season of Lost on DVD.
Come late March or so, if the writers and studios haven’t settled their differences yet, it’ll affect me when the should-run-uninterrupted Lost season gets interrupted.
I’d actully consider doing that if I lived alone. But alas the kids have to have their cartoons.
There’ll still be some of the non scripted TV to watch (I hope this won’t effect Mythbusters), so I won’t do something that drastic unless there was a big enough, organized movement where I thought it might help.
I’m a big tv and movie fan. I started stockpiling shows in preparation; the last scripted shows other than Chuck that I watched originally aired the first week of November. I tranferred the DVR backlog to VCR tape, filling seven 8-hour tapes. And some shows (like 30 Rock tonight) still haven’t finished their run, so the stockpile of network TV is still growing.
Meanwhile, the DVR is full to brimming – 89% as we speak, with another 6 hours being taped later tonight – with movies, movies, and more movies. I have way more to watch than I actually spend time watching, especially since I’m not really watching much of either the tv shows or the movies. Just haven’t had the time.
What it boils down to is that I’m actually helped out by the strike, since any more stuff to watch would send me over the edge to critical mass.
I’ve been waiting ever since the last season finale of Medium to find out if the show even has a future or if it’s been written into a corner. The last I heard it was picked up for a fourth season but only something like four episodes got filmed due to the strike.
I would have never known if it weren’t for the headlines. It seems that anyone responsible for what’s on television should be thrilled that they can get paid at all.
There’s a very simple solution to this all, at least in my book.
I’m re-watching the “Freaks and Geeks” and the brittish version of “The Office”
No matter how many times I’ve seen each and every episode, there is always something new to catch.
For you Netflix folks, if you’ve never seen them, rent them right away. If you must, you could try to commit to watching only one episode each week at a specified time. I will guarantee you that it won’t last. These two shows always end up being a winter time marathon binge for me.
The only show I’ve bothered to watch all season has been Grey’s Anatomy, and even then, I usually just catch the online broadcast on ABC’s website, a day or two after the episodes air. Yeah yeah, I know, that’s exactly what the writers are striking about, but it ain’t my problem. For the record, I hope they get just compensation.
Now that I have a month-long break from school, I plan to catch up on this season’s Office episodes on NBC.com, but I also rejoined Blockbuster Online, just for the month. I’m currently tearing my way through the second season of Deadwood, which is amazing, and I’ll watch the third season next. Then I’ll move on to the first seasons of Dexter and Carnivale, plus some movies I’ve been meaning to see. (Domino sucked, by the way, despite the presences of Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, and Keira Knightley’s boobs.)
Do those really count? 
I miss Stewart and Colbert incredibly much.
I don’t watch much other TV besides them, so other than missing TDS/TCR my evenings have not really been affected. I’m going to bed earlier and playing with Photoshop a lot more. Reading a lot more. Going to bed and reading and then falling asleep.
I might cancel my cable entirely. I only kept it for TDS/TCR. But I can get those on line (when they start running again) so it seems silly to pay cable.
Me neither, except for The Daily Show. “What’s up with all the reruns?”
I might be misremembering, but isn’t this the time of year when shows go into a mid-season break anyway?
Now when February and March come around and there’s no new Ugly Betty, The Office, etc., then I’ll notice.
Cochrane - Well, take your pick, but for me, it’ll always be the Halloween episode with the alternate-universe Eric Cartman. Y’know, where the other boys zap the wrong one, and the real cartman taunts, and taunts, and taunts, and the other boys just stand there and take it despite the fact that there’s nothing preventing them from zapping him.
Anytime a show reaches the point where a colossal jerk can completely get away with it with, I say JTS (in fact, I’m a bit miffed that that’s not one of the preset categories on jumptheshark.com). As it was for Samurai Jack, and Baby Blues, and Futurama, and The Powerpuff Girls, and arguably The Simpsons*.
Not about to side with the studios in any way, shape, or form, but I do agree that whoever writes THAT kind of dreck doesn’t deserve a penny.
- I say “arguably” because that one’s gone on friggin’ forever, there are a whole lot of issues bigger Dolph-Jimbo-Kearney, and most fans say that even now it’s at least pretty good some of the time.