Their fate is a lot less certain than it was before Friday. Meanwhile, producers who banked extra episodes for next season in the event of a strike now find themselves ahead of schedule. We like to have options of when we produce which scripts. The longer you have, the better the product. The unintended benefit for us is it forced a new discipline into work habits.
People are tired but feel really good.
If thesps don't make a deal, of course, the nets will still need their stockpiles. The immediate impact of the settlement will be felt next week, when network execs head to Gotham to trot out their fall wares for ad buyers. That's good news, since the backup skeds would have surely drawn far less coin from Madison Avenue.