The impact of the writers' strike, on screen and off
On Monday at midnight, over 11,000 television and film writers with the Writers\u2019 Guild of America officially went on strike.\n\nThe strike has triggered a sense of d\xe9j\xe0 vu in the TV world, in part because Saturday Night Live and late night talk shows are headed into reruns. But it\u2019s also rekindling memories of the last major work stoppage in Hollywood: the 100 day writers\u2019 strike in 2007 which caused a boom in reality TV and \u2013 by some estimates \u2013 cost the California economy over $2 billion USD.\n\nLucas Shaw covers media and entertainment for Bloomberg, and today he\u2019ll explain why writers are striking in an industry changed by streaming, and what parallels exist with other job action happening across the economy.\n\nFor transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts