I know some of you are probably wondering why we need another article about the WGA Strike. I just thought I would summarize some of the latest news and give some of my personal opinions about the strike.

Many of the late-night hosts will be returning to their shows in the coming weeks. Kimmel, Letterman, Leno, and O-Brien will be returning on January 2. Stewart and Colbert will go back on the air January 7. Some WGA members are criticising these hosts, but I am leaning more toward supporting their decision to return to resume production on their shows. Leno said, “”Now that the talks have broken down and there are no further negotiations scheduled, I feel it’s my responsibility to get my 100 non-writing staff, which were laid off, back to work.” Whether you agree with these hosts’ decision to go back to work, it will be interesting to see how the shows fare without their writers.

In other news, the WGA has announced that they will be picketing the Golden Globes awards ceremony. The writers will most likely not be able to picket right outside the venue, but the ceremony may be affected more by stars refusing to cross the picket line than the picket line itself.

Personally, I support the strike wholeheartedly. I have heard all the same arguments you have: writers only get four cents per DVD sale, when TV and the internet merge writers will end up getting nothing if things don’t change, etc. However, I finally fully appreciated the need for this strike when I found the following statistic: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest had almost $5 million in sales its first day on DVD. Out of that, the writers got paid less than $6,700. This is ridiculous and needs to change!