Television: For Strikers, the Agony of Spare Time
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For union film and television writers, life without employment is starting to exact its toll.
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The picture is grainy and the technology won't last, but TV programming is here to stay.
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Not everyone in media is being hurt. For some, the writers' walkout means booming business.
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Media consumers have been watching the writersâ strike from the sidelines, but they might take notice if the awards season is replaced by marches and pickets.
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Current Media hopes to strike while the apathy is hot.
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 15--Summer is nearly over and you feel like you haven't been outside enough. Too many hours at work. Too much TV.
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In the wake of the three-month Hollywood writers strike, television viewers are hungry for something Â anything Â new on TV, right? Not quite.
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You might not have felt any fallout so far. But TV dramas are unleashing a nuclear arsenal.
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An increasing number of television   viewers are producing their own shows, and the TV industry is   frantically trying to figure out how to combine broadcasts,   Internet movies and home videos into one package.
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Anyone living in Canada who tuned into TVO last night saw an eye-opening documentary called El Contrato. The film, directed by Min Sook Lee, follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to work for eight months of the year as migrant labourers picking tomatoes -- in return for wages and working conditions that no locals will accept. Despite their fear of almost certain repercussions, the workers voice their desire not just for better working conditions, but for the simple dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.     Growers hire foreign workers under the government's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S) in Ontario (and by F.E.R.M.E. in Quebec, New Brunswick and P.E.I.). Because the growers monitor themselves, and because there is a long line of jobless men "back home" willing and eager to take the place of those in the program, the workers are as ripe for exploitation as the fruit they pick.
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With a deal taking shape to end a three-month walkout by Hollywood writers, the strike-hobbled television industry is scrambling to get back on its feet and salvage what remains of the broadcast season.
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A growing number of people are watching TV online; sometimes the future looks very different when it arrives and more.
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Although the world seems more out of control than ever, it&#39;s reassuring to know one thing has retained its original essence: the soul-sucking, creativity-crushing, black hole of brain cells we call TV programming.
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Some say talk is cheap. But not for the best-paid talk show hosts on television and radio.
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What will television look like when the strike ends, and how is the next season going to be changed?
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By Valerie Kuklenski\\ Staff Writer  While angry viewers send e-mails and snail mails, sign petitions and carry signs objecting to language, sex and violence on the big networks, a coalition of pretty powerful advertisers is doing something to improve what's on TV.
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This year television â good, bad and mediocre â found itself obsessed with big shots, big bucks and the arduous climb up the class ladder. So letâs hoist a glass, have some fun and raise some fury.