With more than 10,000 screenwriters on strike over digital and DVD revenues, the networks have increasingly relied on repeats, reality shows and entertainment formats to fill their schedules.
With production halted by the writers' strike since November 5, the networks ran out of new scripted drama and comedy shows and were relying heavily on repeats, reality shows and sport to fill their prime time schedules.
"If you're not watching crap, you're watching either repeats, reality TV, trivia, or adverts.
(Hint. It's an update of the bleak and oft repeated reality in the old line, "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime").
Major reforms in gun violence prevention do not hinge on a single tragedy, even one so horrific as Sandy Hook, but on the repeated reality of loss -- the true "Connecticut effect".
The University of Missouri, like so many other institutions can be well intended, but that intent is often coupled with the repeated reality that most officially appointed leaders in our nation's schools, companies and communities lack the awareness, skills and courage it takes to create the inclusive, respectful and nurturing environments needed for people of all backgrounds to thrive.
Network executives say that without the deals, their summer schedules would be carrying fewer new scripted hours and, in their place, more repeats and reality shows.
Some are specifically introducing new shows this month with the knowledge that TV networks generally show repeats and reality shows over the summer.
Summer on US TV is traditionally the season of repeats and reality but this year the schedules are knee-deep in new drama.
While they have been replaced by repeats or reality shows, the late-night talk shows have continued without their writing teams.
