ABC Won’t Have Any Scripted Shows This Fall

From November 2007 till February 2008, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, and as dozens of exhibits on broadcast and cable tv went on hiatus, actuality TV exploded. Just over fifteen years later, the WGA is on strike once more, and we’re already seeing its results as the massive networks look towards Fall. Disney’s ABC community revealed a Fall lineup totally free of recent scripted exhibits.

ABC’s Fall lineup options one new present, The Golden Bachelor, a variant of its widespread Bachelor present targeted on older members. The remainder of the lineup consists of exhibits like Celebrity Jeopardy, Bachelor in Paradise, Judge Steve Harvey, the Shark Tank, and reruns of Abbott Elementary.

When writers went on strike in 2007, the WGA was involved about normal pay, but in addition particulars like DVD residuals and Guild involvement within the then-new world of streaming video content material. Netflix as we all know it now was barely six months outdated at that time and hadn’t but developed (and arguably misplaced) its status for killer streaming tv. Previous contracts did not account for newer types of media, and the studios preferred it that way–a entire new world of streaming with no pesky union to chop into their earnings.

As GQ notes, earlier writers’ strikes have addressed emergening know-how on the time, such because the then-new observe of exhibiting films on tv within the Sixties and the appearance of house video within the Eighties. Each time there is a new know-how, writers must combat for truthful compensation. This time, AI-powered writing is within the combine, together with issues like residual funds for streaming shows–which are paid out simply as soon as slightly than repeatedly through the years like they’re for syndicated programming on linear tv. In normal, although, the strike–which was approved by 97.85% of the 9,200 voting WGA members (itself about 79% of eligible WGA members–is searching for a extra livable lower of the earnings of the exhibits they create the foundations for.

ABC’s deal with actuality and unscripted programming for Fall means that the community expects the strike to go on for a while. At least lengthy sufficient to influence Fall programming in a big approach. While actuality exhibits had been round earlier than 2007, that strike additionally resulted in an enormous bump for actuality and unscripted programming, which was not depending on Guild-associated writers for creation.

Here’s ABC’s Fall lineup:

MONDAY

8:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars” (two hours)

10:00 p.m. “The Golden Bachelor”

TUESDAY

8:00 p.m. “Celebrity Jeopardy!”

9:00 p.m. “Bachelor in Paradise” (two hours)

WEDNESDAY

8:00 p.m. “Judge Steve Harvey”

9:00 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (Encore)

9:30 p.m. “Abbott Elementary” (Encore)

10:00 p.m.

“What Would You Do?”

THURSDAY

8:00 p.m. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”

9:00 p.m. “Press Your Luck”

10:00 p.m. “The $100,000 Pyramid”

FRIDAY

8:00 p.m. “Shark Tank”

9:01 p.m. “20/20” (two hours)

SATURDAY

7:30 p.m. College Football

SUNDAY

7:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”

8:00 p.m. “The Wonderful World of Disney” (three hours)