Gossip Girl: How will we live without you?Photo: Courtesy CW
You might expect that we feel some solidarity toward the TV and film writers who are striking this week, since we’re writers too and all that. Yeah, not really. Actually, we have always kind of resented TV writers since they get paid way more than we do (damn them for making such a smart career choice), and we suspect that most other print/Internet-y people feel the same way. Or, at least, their mothers do. Basically it’s kind of like a Serbs-versus-Croats situation. But now we at Intel have a real reason to be pissed at those guys. Our too–small–to–write–for–the–Harvard Lampoon brains just realized that because of the strike we may be deprived of future episodes of GOSSIP GIRL. Although (thank you sweet Jesus Imitation of Christ) new episodes will air tomorrow night and next week, the L.A. Times is reporting that the CW only has 13 of the 22 planned episodes for 2007–2008 in the can, which means that, depending on how long the strike lasts, we could run out of new episodes by February.
It means that we won’t get to see the Very Special Valentine’s Day episode in which Serena’s brother and Jenny finally, adorably hook up and Blair wears lingerie again and Dan constructs an elaborate holiday surprise for Serena which adorably fails. “[The strike] could be very, very disruptive to the productions,” Josh Schwartz told MTV. But what about us, Josh? This is going to be hugely disruptive to our lives.
The TV Grid [LAT]
Will the Writer’s Strike Affect You? [MTV]
