Strike would spell big trouble for TV

June 12, 2008 Two of the biggest victims of the WGA strike -- the Television Critics Assn. press tour and the Beverly Hilton hotel -- might be among the first to face a fallout from a potential SAG strike. While it took TCA a month after the beginning of the WGA strike to call off its winter press tour while considering alternative ways of doing a strike-impacted version of it, the association already has made a decision to cancel the July tour and the TCA Awards in the event of a strike, TCA president Dave Walker said. On the series production side, it is ironic that "24" -- the show most impacted by the writers strike as its seventh season was scrapped by Fox -- is the best prepared to weather a SAG strike.

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