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Will the strike's mark be permanent?


April 14, 2008 The 2008-09 development season will go down in TV history with an asterisk. It's too early to tell if the footnote will simply say "the season was affected by the WGA strike" or "2008-09 was the season that broke the traditional development cycle," but it certainly jolted some decades-old TV rituals. [...] came the three-month standstill of the strike, during which all networks except NBC let go of a quarter to a third of their development slates.

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