>In article 4ax.com>,
> Rob Jensen aol.com> wrote:
>

>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:33:46 -0700, Anim8rFSK cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>

>>>In article <1kfci3pnk7j9n9f37ma395k2q3df9c5unn@4ax.com>,
>>> Rob Jensen aol.com> wrote:
>>>

>>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:43:49 -0400, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
>>>> nastydesigns.com> wrote:
>>>>

>>>>>In article 4ax.com>,
>>>>> Rob Jensen aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>

>>>>>> I'm expecting them to mix reality shows with repeats of shows from
>>>>>> affiliated basic cable networks -- NBC will start showing Uni-produced
>>>>>> shows like Monk, Psych and Battlestar Galactica, The CW or CBS might
>>>>>> start showing the Paramount-produced The 4400, FX's Damages would be a
>>>>>> great fit for FOX, etc.

>>>>>
>>>>>Ah, 1988--when they brought back Mission: Impossible to fill the
>>>>>WGA-induced void.
>>>>>
>>>>>Some good things *do* come from such strikes.

>>>>
>>>> Not quite. The M:I revival was scabwork. I was reiterating a plan
>>>> already speculated on by Entertainment Weekly that the networks may be
>>>> planning to rerun *already existing episodes* of basic cable series
>>>> produced by their sibling basic cable networks. Ain't the same thing
>>>> as the M:I scabwork.
>>>>
>>>> -- Rob
>>>> --
>>>> LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
>>>> It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
>>>> and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
>>>> when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
>>>> ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
>>>> victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.

>>>
>>>Hardly 'scabwork' -- they reshot scripts written for the original show
>>>by union writers, who got paid again, and any rewriting was done by
>>>management. No scabs involved at all.

>>
>> You might not consider it scabwork, but the WGA does -- particularly
>> wrt rewriting the scripts and the establishement of the a-h clauses
>> about what parts of writing that writers can still do during a strike
>> (basically editing scripts), *which producers ("management") cannot
>> do.* The M:I revival defined this concept as scabwork.

>
>The WGA can try to redefine reality all they want - they're wrong. I
>hope they get shot down but good.