Which summer movies did the writers’ strike hit the hardest?
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jan 8, 2009 in Summer 2009
Last year, Hollywood’s writers went on strike for 14 weeks, and genre television took tremendous damage as a result. But movies didn’t emerge unscathed, either — we just won’t see the fallout until this year.
When the studios decided to wait out the striking writers, they put a lot of big genre TV shows in jeopardy. Some emerged almost unscathed — Lost was able to go back and finish its fourth season — but several others took major damage. For example, Heroes had to end its second season early, leaving plotlines unresolved (Catilin?) and a bad taste in people’s mouths. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ended its first season early, and by the time it came back after a nine-month gap, it had lost a lot of viewers, maybe permanently.
But because of the longer lead time for movies, we’re just about to start seeing the effects of the strike — fewer movies, and worse movies
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