Here are some of the writer-producer-actors on the show, The Office, to explain what the writer’s strike is about.

And here’s an interview with Battlestar Galactica honcho, Ron Moore.

Insider blogger Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily has an interesting take on what’s going.

Really smart people have told me that if this walkout doesn’t settle in the next few weeks, say, by December 15th, then there may not be an incentive for the moguls to settle it until June when the Screen Actors Guild contract expires. As for the Director’s Guild, whose contract is up next June as well but will settle it sooner, everyone expects the DGA to fold like pup tents: no shocker there. In film, the studios prepared for this labor action starting two years ago. But I broke the news pre-strike that the Big Media and Hollywood CEOs viewed this TV season as a total loss and welcomed the walkout as an automatic “do-over” that would allow them to regroup and then refashion their business models.

DU editor, SN, took this further:

I don’t know why I’m obsessing on this, but maybe the causes are reversed. Maybe we’re faced with crappy shows because the producers and networks knew this strike was coming and didn’t want to risk any good shows to be stalled during the strike. So they threw out a bunch of crappy ones to wither through the strike. I mean, how else could Christina Applegate get yet another sitcom?!

So, who’s up for a Gilligan’s Island marathon in January?