From November 2007 until February 2008, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, and as dozens of shows on broadcast and cable television went on hiatus, reality TV exploded. Just over fifteen years later, the WGA is on strike again, and we're already seeing its effects as the big networks look toward Fall. Disney's ABC network published a Fall lineup entirely free of new scripted shows.

ABC's Fall lineup features one new show, The Golden Bachelor, a variant of its popular Bachelor show focused on older participants. The rest of the lineup includes shows like Celebrity Jeopardy, Bachelor in Paradise, Judge Steve Harvey, the Shark Tank, and reruns of Abbott Elementary.

When writers went on strike in 2007, the WGA was concerned about general pay, but also details like DVD residuals and Guild involvement in the then-new world of streaming video content. Netflix as we know it now was barely six months old at that point and hadn't yet developed (and arguably lost) its reputation for killer streaming television. Previous contracts didn't account for newer forms of media, and the studios liked it that way--a whole new world of streaming without a pesky union to cut into their profits.