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As I was walking home, I was thinking about the '88 strike. Ugh! But what we have now, that we didn't have in '88 was hundreds of boutique channels. We didn't have a channel like BBC America. Now, should the strike be a prolonged one, they might be one of the few sources of new scripted TV there is. SciFi will probably have new stuff as well, at least in the B movie department. Which led me to wondering: will we see the big networks buying rights to air shows from the UK or Canada? And what about US shows that are made in Canada? I wonder what the small print on different contracts is as far as those productions being able to hire Canadian writers? And last, but not least, if this is a long strike, and goes as long as the '88 one, we could conceivably see the writers come back only to have the actors walk out in June. Dang!

An Hour Later: According to Deadline Hollywood, a Federal mediator has intervened.

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UK telly has always been popular here, but until the advent of BBCA, we usually could only see it on PBS stations. Except when I was little and shows like the Avengers and the Saint played on 'regular' TV. Apparently shows like Footballers Wives and Hotel Babylon have done quite well on BBCA. Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid [g] But I have/do watch the F Word, Torchwood, HEX, and a few other things on BBCA. I'd love to see more. Like most cable channels, they tend to repeat the same things over and over. I'd love to see something like Holby City air here.

TW being my main fandom. I do love Spooks though (you get it as Mi5 I believe?) but I'm more about drama - such as the Poliakoff that will air Sunday - rather than soaps such as Holby. Mind you they do use actors who look like regular people on UK telly and that must be a shock on the other side of the pond.

All US tv shows have people who look as if they live work and play at the gym.

Yes, I loved Spooks/MI5! But they chopped out ten-fifteen minutes an ep here, so I gave up and waited for DVDs. I have S1, just haven't watched them yet. I like dramas & soaps. Well, some soaps :) I watch General Hospital here, and have for twenty years. My mum used to watch it when I was a baby. That's kind of cool, the long term of it all.