You've seen how so many talk shows with comedy writers behind the scenes are now running re-runs because they have no new material with the writers on strike. Other programs are doing the same. But soap operas aren't airing re-runs yet, or at least to my knowledge. For them, this would be disasterous given that the whole foundation of soaps is to tune in each day to see what has happened in the day-to-day ongoing drama of these soap stars on-camera lives.
I heard, however, that the writers for soaps are on strike too. Is that accurate? Have the soaps just taped so far in advance that they still have a stockpile of episodes they are working through before they have to do something different, go dark, or perhaps air re-runs? What has made soaps thus far seemingly indelible to the writer's strike, at least from the viewers' perceptions?
2007-12-13
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John S.
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