I haven't mentioned the writer's strike here yet. One quick sentence that basically sums up my opinion: good for them, bad for me. Bad for me because TV shows are going out of production, late night is basically shut down, and if this goes much further, we're talking about no new TV until 2009. This will make my friend Lauren happy because she only watches "unscripted" television programs, like Intervention and the Real Housewives of the O.C. And that's all that will be on TV, so I implore the writers and studios to settle this as soon as possible. There was a good Op-Ed in NY Times yesterday, and if I have a minute to dig up the link, I'll add it here.

However, one positive about the strike is that a lot of shows are taking the opportunity to air a kind of "best-of". This includes the Daily Show, which took the opportunity to air Jon Stewart making John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., look like a complete partisan idiot with little to no understanding of history, as Bolton took the opportunity to actually suggest that democratic theory and insulating your presidency to the point of total separation are somehow synonymous, or at a minimum, co-existential (if that's even a word).

Again, if I have a minute, I will try to find this on YouTube. Very entertaining TV.

[Update: Here's that Op-Ed from the Times. It actually appeared in Sunday's Week in Review section.]

Labels: Jon Stewart, reality TV, TV