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Hollywood Shuts Down After 160,000 Actors Walk Off the Set

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I’ve been “striking” for a long time now, against junk TV in general. There’s an occasional awesome show that delivers but 95% of it is low-effort junk TV like dating, survival, cooking and other shows like it.
I haven’t had live TV in years and it’s quite shocking to see what the average user deals with. Junk TV + ads that play 30% of the time is absolutely insane.
- low-effort junk TV like dating, survival, cooking and other shows like it.
  ... in other words, exactly the shows that don't use actors or writers
  
  Huh. When you put it that way...
  
  Dont they also have writers on these? With most of it being scripted and dramatized, sbd. gotta make all this stuff up. Also the whole set-up the catch etc. I thought these were done by writers too.
  
  I don't know how other companies work, but I work at a company that produces a lot of reality TV shows. They definitely have writers that will lead the direction that the shows take (for example challenge ideas for a dating show or maybe bow they deliver hints to a blind customer cooking show) and they'll have some leading questions in interviews (or even asking to phrase things for more drama if the contestants want to and they usually say yes) but you'd be surprised at how unscripted the ones we produce are.
  
  I actually think the movies they star in and write are shit too.
  Just looking at the list of movies held up by the strike makes me weep with joy.
  Glad greedy shitbags who make nothing but garbage are fighting each other.
- I haven’t had live TV in years and it’s quite shocking to see what the average user deals with. Junk TV + ads that play 30% of the time is absolutely insane.
  Yeah, I’ve had the same experience. We don’t have live TV, and when we occasionally hang out with friends or family who do I’m always flabbergasted at the frequency and length of ad breaks nowadays, and similarly amazed that despite a nearly endless list of channels there never seems to be anything I actively want to watch.
  
  I can't believe the people that allow commercials to blare in their living rooms without diving for the remote control like the house is on fire. Is it just me? and they just continue normal conversation like it's somehow possible to hear them.
  
  diving for the remote control like the house is on fire
  lol this is me, it's not just you 😂
  Our house is generally on the quieter side. Partly because some of us are on the spectrum, and partly because we like to actually hear each other when we converse. Haven't paid for TV in years, don't miss it.
  
  sometimes its nice to have background noise.
  most of the time though im with you though.
  
  My parents still have cable TV (I just got them a Roku not long ago, so fingers crossed...), and at this point I can't stand to watch it for more than about one and a half commercial breaks. It's hard to believe anybody willingly subjects themselves to that trash when ad-free alternatives are available.
  
  I had one of them first TiVos, then upgraded to them expanded versions modes online for 1TB of shows. The 30-second skip button pressed six(6) times would effectively (skip) the ads. Never looked back. When I see or hear a commercial at someone’s house it rocks me like I’m in a different dimension and time.
  
  Personally I rarely watch TV in real time, so the only time of year I ever really see commercials is during the NFL season.
  
  nfl redzone is the only way i can watch most of the sunday games anymore. going back to the regular broadcast just feels so slow and outdated.
  
  You do you, my friend. I love the regular broadcasts.
  
  Bruce was talking about it 30 years ago when we had 57 channels and nothin' on. It's only gotten worse since then.
  
  Bruce?
  
  Bruce Wayne
- You forgot animated sitcom that either lasts 6 episodes or 16 seasons
- lol only 30%?
  jokes but i agree.. i remember going to visit some relatives and sat and watched tv with them.. i too was so shocked at how they'd sit idly thru commercials jarring into their show, slapping them in the face..
  i can't stand it. just about anything i watch, when i watch, is commercial free
  
  I think they get that from most half hour shows are 22 minutes and hour shows only 42 minutes.
  But if course networks have been known to cut them back even further to squeeze some more ads in
- Even the most high effort shows have so much useless digression and pointless characters that are developed and killed off in a single episode.

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