I am a staunch supporter of the Hollywood writer’s right to strike. I have said so here in my posts as well as in the comments sections of others posts and all over the web. So it really pisses me off when I read something like this from the Hollywood Reporter:

Noise and other disruptions caused by a writers picket line has stopped filming at a location being used for the CBS show “Cane.” The shutdown came as about 20 writers chanted, screamed and used a bullhorn outside a cafe near the CBS lot in Studio City. Tom Hogan, a location manager for the show, says he hired two off-duty Los Angeles police officers in addition to five private security guards to maintain order during the shoot. He said the filming began hours before the picketers arrived and involved a script that was finished several weeks ago. After the shoot was stopped, writers cheered and rejoined picketers around the corner at the studio

I understand that their purpose is to be disruptive and get attention, but this is production on a show whose script was complete prior to the strike and I am certain that the writers of the show would like to go back to it after the strike is over. If this had been an episode scripted by a scab writer, I could understand a deliberate disruption of the production. There are just a few completed scripts left among the shows currently on TV before they will have to cease production. Many already have! It serves little purpose and certainly will engender little willingness to come to an agreement if the writers continue to use tactics like these. If the protesters had been identified, they and their shows would have gone directly to the top of my list of shows not to watch.
Production of television shows will indeed cease over the next couple of weeks and the writers point will have been made. Soon enough, we will all be living in a sea of reruns and a non-scripted television hell. Let’s let the few remaining episodes of series that have already been written film in peace.

This post was Authored by Rob Walley, Our Resident Authority on all things Cane

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