I guess this means that there will be a marked rise in the quality of television programming as the writers of the crap walk the picket line.

Film and TV writers resolved to put down their pens and take up picket signs after last-ditch talks failed to avert a strike.

The first picket lines were set to appear Monday morning at Rockefeller Center in New York, where NBC is headquartered.

In Los Angeles, writers were planning to picket 14 studio locations in four-hour shifts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day until a new deal is reached.

The contract between the 12,000-member Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer expired Oct. 31. Talks that began this summer failed to produce much progress on the writers' key demands for a bigger slice of DVD profits and revenue from the distribution of films and TV shows over the Internet.

Writers and producers gathered for negotiations Sunday at the request of a federal mediator.

Neither side seems interested in budging.

And so expect reruns and reality shows.

And an increase in book sales and DVD rentals.

Even better, perhaps the networks could simply go black, raising the quality of their programming even further as Americans realize that they don't miss the garbage at all.

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