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Culture Review 2007: The Writers Strike.
Late in 2007 writers for television shows in the US went on strike. Television shows imediately began to use a reserve of unaired new shows or repeats so the public has only seen minimal effect from the strike so far but it is already causing hardship in the industry. As production of shows has stopped the thousands of other workers such as the stage hands, makeup artists and so on havebeen laid off. This is unfortunate as these people are usually not so well paid as the writers.