The WGA contract expired at midnight. The strike doesn’t start until tomorrow or Monday, but there’s already been one casualty: one of the major agencies is withholding a week’s worth of pay to ALL their employees in order to have more “financial flexibility.”

(Update: rumors are indicating the agency cutting pay is ICM, a truly major H’wood agency)

There’s already another victim on the chopping block: live television. Shows like The Daily Show are already announcing they’ll be going into reruns for the duration of the strike since their writers won’t be working anymore. Some shows like The Late Show and The Tonight Show haven’t said anything about reruns, but how long can they last without writers?

Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Enrique
Filed under: WGA Strike, Television, Politics