At least the strike was good for Boston Legal

[AntonyF]

I finally found one good thing about the writers' strike!

Boston Legal season 4 was okay, but certainly not its sparkling best. But I just saw the new ones after the strike and wow, it's back to old form. Maybe David Kelley needed a break.

In particular I loved...

Spoiler: Mild spoiler for 2x18

The whole scene where their meeting has moved, and they take the piss out of the networks. Classic Boston Legal.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I thought it got better after the strike to.
Where some of the eps filmed when the strike was on so they could not make any changes to the scripts

 

[bigdaddy]

I thought the season was all over the place before and after the strike.

And ABC showed a Boston Legal repeat last night! I was shocked!

 

[Harvey]

I thought it got better after the strike to.
Where some of the eps filmed when the strike was on so they could not make any changes to the scripts

Wasn't there a story about how David E. Kelly wrote something like three scripts over night so the show could keep shooting during the writer's strike?

 

[TGTheodore]

I thought it got better after the strike to.
Where some of the eps filmed when the strike was on so they could not make any changes to the scripts

Wasn't there a story about how David E. Kelly wrote something like three scripts over night so the show could keep shooting during the writer's strike?

I wouldn't be surprised. He's easily the most prolific writer/producer since Stephen Cannell.

--Ted

 

[bigdaddy]

I thought it got better after the strike to.
Where some of the eps filmed when the strike was on so they could not make any changes to the scripts

Wasn't there a story about how David E. Kelly wrote something like three scripts over night so the show could keep shooting during the writer's strike?

Yes. He seemed to have a line up of several shows. They had 15-17 episodes of show done when most didn't have half of that.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Through a combination of Kelley's last-minute writing blitz and the usual holiday/election pre-emptions, Boston Legal managed to have 14 episodes and stay on the air until mid-February. Another six after the strike brought them up to 20, which wasn't too far off the 24-episode order the season originally had.