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Struck Out: Grey's Anatomy Cast Calls It Quits
T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl in Grey's Anatomy by Ron Tom/ABC
The stars of Grey's Anatomy on Wednesday took their lunch breaks outside with picketers and told them they were just about finished shooting until the strike is resolved. "We're supposed to be going until the end of May," T.R. Knight noted, "and right now our last shooting day will be Tuesday or Wednesday." Added Sandra Oh: "This matter is way too important not only for our writers, but ultimately everyone who makes movies, everyone who makes entertainment here in this town and again for the rest of the world." Um, I don't know if I'd go that far. — Ben Katner
More in TVGuide.com's Strike Watch blog:
• Fox "Strike" Schedule Subtracts 24, Adds Prison Break
• Office Closing: Carell, Others Won't Cross Picket Line
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Nov 8, 2007 9:14 AM
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I don't know, Ben. With the amount of dependency on television and movie entertainment (books? what are books?), worldwide, she may be right. Scary thought, but there it is.
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Nov 8, 2007 10:21 AM
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I'm glad! Maybe their time on the picket line will get them thinking about better story lines when they resume filming. Grey's has been heading downhill all season.
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Nov 8, 2007 10:27 AM
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I find it astounding. Writers come up with the ideas, yes. But the studios make those ideas happen. And sometimes, like in the case of Greys do so with huge salaries for emmy award winners attached. WHen a show says, "Special Guest star....Glenn Close" who do you think pays for that?
I feel like I am watching a parent and a child. The child wants more allowance. The Parent is saying, "Well what do you do" The child responds "I clean my room." And the parent says, "You are supossed to clean you room....what else do you do"
"Well I do it well." To a parent....that wouldn't count.
Even if the parent rented the room to a friend and the child was required to clean it...(Like a writer giving up there script to the studio for the studio to shoot.) the parent is well within there right to do so. The parent makes the rules.....they take all the risks. The Studio takes ALL the risk. The writers should get more. THey should be more apart of there stories...But not all of what they are asking. There not coal miners for godsake. There not child laborers. They are people who get paid an anormous sum to think creatively. I wish i could do that. I know plenty of out of work writers who would kill for the opportunioties these people have.
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Nov 8, 2007 11:35 AM
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Jessica is a moron. First of all learn to spell it is not anormous. Buy a dictionary. Get a clue. You are obviously not union. Without the writers there would be no stories to tell. This is not a parent child relationship. This is a symbiotic relationship. There should be equality.
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Nov 8, 2007 12:06 PM
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cordeliachase, I have to agree with you. I think Jessica needs to stop drinking and posting because she doesn't make any sense.
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Nov 8, 2007 12:58 PM
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the sad part the consumer is gonna have to pay for this, execs are not gonna stop giving themselves million dollar bonuses, they are gonna pass the buck off to the consumer, movie tickets prices will be $15 next year.
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Nov 8, 2007 1:00 PM
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Movie tickets will go up to $15 or $20 dollars.
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Nov 8, 2007 2:13 PM
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I'm glad, too! Personally, I think there have been very few standout shows this seasons, so perhaps a strike will allow the writers to recoup and come back with fresh ideas and renewed respect from others. I'm just scared of the crappy reality TV we'll all be subjected to if the strike is prolonged for months.
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Nov 8, 2007 2:15 PM
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I also think it's a worldwide matter. All the foreign tv stations import almost all of the shows. So if there aren't new episodes, the foreign stations don't have anything to air either. Well, maybe there's a year between the strike and the lack of shows and maybe they can produce more own stuff... but still, it affects it.
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Nov 8, 2007 2:22 PM
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I disagree with Jessica's characterizing the writer's as children. It's pejorative, insulting and unnecessary.
They are not children, they are grown-ups with jobs, mortgages and a product they are selling. They want more for their product, that is the capitalist system. Why is it when workers use the tools of capitalism people come down on them?
I have no access to the books, and I'm pretty certain Jessica doesn't either. So I don't know where either of us is qualified to weigh in on the nuts & bolts as it relates to the compensation issue of this dispute.
I do support the Writer's taking a stand on no compensation for internet. It would be like radio writer agreeing to give their stuff free to that new untested technology--TV--in the late 40s.
No one imagines TPTB won't find a way to make money off internet distribution.
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Nov 8, 2007 3:01 PM
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Can someone explain why it was OK for the "Grey's" cast to cross the picket line, while Eva Longoria caught so much flack?
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Nov 8, 2007 3:28 PM
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This is nothing more than a matter of greed on both sides. I am a liberal who has supported unions in the past, but they have grown to be as greedy and corrupt as the management they purport to fight, and I don't approve of strikes. The MBA's have all but ruined the entertainment and sports industries.
Of course the actors are supporting the strike. They have their own powerful unions to contend with if they don't.
What the industry needs to realize is that television and films (and sports) are something we want, not something we can't live without. We have alternatives, such as books and such as DVD rentals of things we haven't yet seen or things we have and want to see again. We can play cards or other games; we can gather and talk.
I stopped being a fan of Grey's Anatomy quite a while ago. I am, however, an avid fan of Lost, and I am terribly sad that the season might be "Lost" to us. Guess I'll just have to rewatch the season I already own.
I am angry at networks, sponsors, and writers for acting like children and continuing to provide entertainment while they work out their issues. I will, on the other hand, survive it.
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Nov 8, 2007 3:29 PM
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Hey Cordeliachase...I know how to spell BITE ME.
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Nov 8, 2007 4:18 PM
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flossie - that is my question exactly!! Why was it wrong for Eva to go in to finish the work that had already been scripted, and say in public that she supported the writers and the strikers, but it seems okay for the cast of Grey's to do the same thing?
And clarknt67 - when you are taking about the writers as a group, lose the apostrophe - writer's is possessive and gramatically wrong.
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Nov 8, 2007 4:23 PM
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