Dead Like Me and the Writers Strike
As most of you will know, the Writers Guild of America are currently on strike. The strike started on the 5th of November 2007 – and is still on now. It’s effecting a lot of hit shows, such as 24 and heroes. But will it affect Dead Like Me? We can assume that it won’t affect the Dead Like Me Movie. If you read the previous post – we have a link to a site where you can hear Ellen Muth say that the movie will be out in July, and is currently in Post-Production.
Wikipedia (everyone’s favourite source of information) defines Post-Production as editing the picture, editing the soundtrack, Writing and recording the soundtrack music and adding visual special. This should basically mean that the writers are no longer involved.
Where the strike “Could” effect Dead Like Me is if the show was going to go back to series. Although it is still unconfirmed, and it has already been stated that a series would only be possible if the Dead Like Me Film was taken well, would the scripts for a possible series already have been started? They would need revisions, changes, agreements, collaboration. Would all this work have started after the film had been released, and waited until the sales built up to a decent level – or would they have everything ready to get going as soon as the facts were in.
It would be great to get some solid evidence for the possibility of a new series. Have the actors signed long contracts that they would work on the show again? When Dead Like Me was originally in production – the actors were in 5 year contracts.
It would also be great to find out if the writers (credited as) Stephen Godchaux and John Masius are on strike, or have started any series script.
As soon as more info about the series, the film and any other info is found out, it’ll be posted on here. 
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Actually, the writer’s strike could very well end up helping DLM return to television. Most of the networks are currently or will soon be dissolving deals for development of new shows, meaning there will be no pilots for the networks to preview for possible new series next year.
This means that shows that have already been developed (possibly even shows which have been cancelled) stand a much more likely chance of being asked to create new episodes once the strike is over.
Obviously, if the writer’s strike continues through the summer, there won’t be any new scripted programs on the air next fall, but hopefully the studios and the writers will have fixed this all by the spring…
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
if jericho could come back dead like me has to. Freaking Showtime better not make a mistake and ignore this show.
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