Who Won The Writer's Strike?

The New York Times questions this morning if the writer's or the studios were the real winners in the Hollywood Writer's Strike. While the writer's eventually gained a piece of the digital pie they were after, the studio's learned a thing or two during the strike that could take more money out of the writers' pockets in the long-term. Pilot season, traditionally lucrative for writer's, may be a thing of the past as nearly 70 development deals were cut during the strike as the networks found success in focusing their primetime schedules on reality programming. It's expected that this will continue into the next television season. On the other hand, while the studios figured that the writer's would not be able to unify during the strike due to their varying interests, they were wrong. The Writer's Guild is a remarkably unified group and that must make the major studios a tad uncomfortable.

So who do you think won the Writer's Strike?

Via New York Times
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