Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.