Johnathan Handel Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Johnathan Handel If there is a strike what viewers would see is a ripple effect, the late night shows which are scripted on a day-to-day basis…would immediately go to an improv kind of a situation and a sort of an awkwardness. Then, you’re talking about the weekly showsSaturday NightLive, for example, which could go dark or into re-runs. Johnathan Handel entertainment There is an irony to the so-called ‘Peak TV.’ The face that the number of scripted TV shows has basically doubled in the last year or so, it’s a disconnect in two ways: One is writers get paid for writing fewer episodes. The other is that even on these shorter series they get held on exclusivity. They get put on ice, not working for the entirety of the rest of the year. Johnathan Handel entertainment The studios have a lot of ability to make lemonade out of lemons in this situation, most of them are units of much larger companies so a strike doesn’t necessarily move the needle materially in terms of what the investment community looks at. Johnathan Handel entertainment
