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From bdbdb: Updated Strike Chart: How Long Before Your Shows Go Dark?

It ain't pretty. At this rate, I'm glad my favorite show is from 1976. (On today's Ryan's Hope: more Roger/Delia! Hooray!)

As for the current soaps, according to Variety, some soap writers (from The Young & the Restless) are breaking the strike (invoking the "financial core" clause). However, Y&R's executive producer-head writer, Lynn Marie Latham, is honoring the strike--and the network has paid her back by firing her assistant and giving her office to a Sony exec. Other soaps have vowed to continue airing new programming despite the strike (for fear of losing even more of their audience than they have of late), so I guess they're hoping for other writers to go "financial core," and, if not, they'll hire scabs...

My favorite bit of the Variety article:

"During the 1988 walkout, network and studio execs -- along with non-WGA scribes -- were enlisted to keep the sudsers lathered up. There were also widespread reports of WGA scribes writing scripts at home and finding a way to get those scripts into producers' hands without physically crossing a picket line.

"'You'd hear stories about scripts being dropped off behind a trash can or in an alley,'" one soap veteran said."