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As if they didn't have enough problems, Big Entertainment is starting to cancel writers' contracts for developing next year's TV series:

January is usually the beginning of pilot season, when networks order new scripted shows. But the strike leaves networks without a pool of comedy and drama scripts from which to choose.
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"I didn't see it coming," Barbara Hall, a writer and producer whose credits include former CBS series "Joan of Arcadia" and "Judging Amy," told the Times, which said ABC executives gave her the news Friday. "I am not entirely sure what their strategy is, all I know was that I was a casualty of it."

What it means, Ms. Hall, is that the networks have figured out that they can make more money with reality TV shows, game shows, and sports than they can with dramas and sitcoms.  Sucks to be you, eh?