Soap-Operas Are the Hidden Drama of Strike
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The most sensational mystery in daytime may be how soap operas are being written at all, considering that nearly all of their writers are guild members on strike.
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Politically charged drama, comedy, and reality fare is coming to network and cable TV.
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Comedy or drama or in  between, all series are based on relationships.
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To prepare for a prolonged writers strike, television networks have stockpiled a gladiator battle, a lie-detector game, a remade "Password," a celebrity "Apprentice" and a competition for aspiring Pussycat Dolls.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will  vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season  overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its  final stretch.
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By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 18--After years of offering a glut of mean-spirited reality fare and formulaic sitcoms, network executives are going for drama this fall.
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It's a study in  contrasts. The freshman drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"  hit the air in September in a blaze of glory and critical  raves, only to have the honeymoon sour roughly a minute after  its premiere had concluded, earning lousy ratings and negative  backlash in seemingly equal measure.
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If the strike continues, the Oscars could become an infomercial about the importance of writers.
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The Oscar-winning "Crash" is coming to TV as a drama series this year.
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The broadcast networks  have stepped up the stockpiling of scripted series in face of a  potential writers strike after their union&#39;s contract expires  at the end of next month.
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Nearly three months into a strike by Hollywood screenwriters that has suffocated network television schedules, advertisers have remained sanguine.
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Coming from the country which brought you Coronation Street and EastEnders, the new soap opera, Paulaâs Privations, has this week brought Britain to a standstill and delighted media executives everywhere.
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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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Certain networks â some cable, some not â stepped in to fill the gap that âThe Sopranosâ left behind. And the writersâ strike enhances what was so good about the best-scripted shows of the year.
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With "American Idol" and Jay Leno back on the air in January, it may seem that all is right with television. But the industry is facing its worst labor crisis in two decades, a crippling writers strike that's reshaping the business of TV and threatening to permanently shift the viewing habits of millions of Americans.
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The pains and perils of romance with TV characters.
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Some of the most creative thinking in television these days has nothing to do with comedy or drama. It's about the commercials. Fueled by a growing sense of desperation, networks are inserting games, quizzes and mini-dramas into commercial breaks.