If the Writers Strike occurs...

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If a Writers Strike occurs after Halloween, will it affect production of 2008 episodes of prime time cartoons "The Simpsons", "King of the Hill", "Family Guy", "American Dad", and/or "South Park" since they have writers unless Trey and Matt write their own "South Park" scripts on a budget if they are not Writers Guild members?
 
I thought Trey and Matt wrote all their own scripts, anyway.

But Cartoons make their episodes more in advance than live action series do, so a lot of these shows should be good to go script wise for a while, barring rewrites and the FCC.

Then shows like Robot Chicken and Family Guy don't look like they really even need an actual script to go by, so all Seth McFarlane and Seth Green would have to do is just do what they now: Insert random pop culture references and a little shred of actual story.

And the way Fox pre-empts their cartoon lineup, Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy and American Dad should all have their current seasons already finished (or getting there) with next seasons scripts in the early stages.
 
As I mentioned here a couple of times before, it takes at least 6 months to make a 22 minute episode of an animated cartoon, so if the writers' strike were to occur, say, next week, it wouldn't affect the shows made for this season, as all or most of the episodes from this season have already been made months in advance and are already in the can by now. At the most, it may delay the shows made for the following season.
 
I thought Matt & Trey made fun of the Screen Actors Guild in Team America. Do they belong in the group or not? Because the looks of it, Matt & Trey seems not to belong in the group. They could actually parody the strike (if the strikes happens) in one of their upcoming episodes.
 
The Writers Strike if it starts this weekend unless a new deal is reach won't affect 2008 South Park episodes but would affect Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report to go into indefinate reruns.
 
All I can say for this is clearly this is yet another reason for Hollywood to figure "we don't need writers! We can rip off some reality program from some foriegn country and call it 'original programming', and not have to pay doodly squat for writers or actors." to which Fox responds, "We don't need people to research foreign programs. Let's just find out what someone has on their fall schedual, and make a cheaper copy of it, and rush it out as fast as we can. That way our braindead target audience will think we came up with it."

Seriously. This is not the kind of TV climate to strike!
 
So what about some of the cable shows like Adult Swim stuff and South Park (no one's really answered this yet) that are produced on a short schedule? What about anime dubbing - are ADR script writers affected by this?
 
ADR writers might not be affected unless they're part of the Writer's Guild of America (or whichever union is the one planning it).
 
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Animation is not [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]part of the [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Writer's Guild.[/FONT]
 
If the WGA isn't in animation, then this thread should really be in the entertainment section.

And no new Lost episodes!? NOOOOOOOO! Everything else I could really care less about.;)
 
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