Impending Writer's Strike

Newsday.com, 11.7.08
BY PERVAIZ SHALLWANI

Excerpt:

"Shows in which New York detectives probe crimes will themselves become victims of a writers' walkout if there's no resolution to the strike before next month, one of the show's executive producers said Tuesday on a Queens picket line.

"By Christmas, there will be no 'Law and Order' shooting in the city," Warren Leight, 50, producer of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," said outside Silvercup Studios in Long Island City. "It's the first time you can say that in 17 years, except for a few hiatuses."

Without a resolution, the rest of the show's 175-member production crew will be unemployed by mid-December, said Leight, a former president of Writers Guild of America East..." Full article

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