Being written off

Television show writers will be on strike as of Monday, 12:01 a.m. (Pacific) after negotiations over DVD sales royalties were not resolved. Reports are saying late-night talk shows will take the first hit.

Because these shows cover timely subjects, they are rarely shot in advance. Soap operas usually have 30 days worth of shows and will be affected if the strike goes longer. Other series and reality shows will begin re-airing old episodes in 2008 if the strike lasts even longer.

As if television wasn't bad enough, now we're going to get stuck watching Dancing With the Stars results shows from last season.

Hey, maybe now people will actually watch Last Call With Carson Daly - watching him try to host a show without writers has got to make it less terrible than it already is.