Reruns, Reality Shows Deflate Primetime

(WUSA) -- They still called it the Golden Globes, but there was nothing glitzy or glamorous about an awards show that looked more like a mundane press conference.

Cost to the industry? An estimated $75 million in lost revenue. It is just the latest casualty in the now 10-week-old writers strike that shows no signs of winding down.

And now it's really hitting home for the rest of us, who may have surround sound and High Definition television, but very few new shows to use it on. The viewers we found on the streets were getting very impatient, and American University Prof. Jemma Puglissi says the longer this strike goes on, the worse it's going to be. "The audiences are going to find other things to do besides watching television and that's not what you want as an entertainment industry."

The strike's next victim just may be the Academy Awards, and Puglissi says that's the ultimate example of a show that must go on. "I would venture to say this would be resolved before the Oscars. There's just too much at stake."