No this has nothing to do with the "s" word. I'm just trying to take the tempereature of the industry right now. In your experience is it slower right now than normal? I know its hard to guage, but what do you think? What about commercials? Eposodic? Film (indy or not)?

It is a little slower in TV as many shows are on hiatus, but there are some pilots shooting. Feature films are very slow because of the defacto strike(is that the s-word you considered unmentionable?). Indy films are not as slow, and several got waivers to shoot, work stoppage or not. Commercials aren't really slow-slow for me, but not in general.

I concur. It's slow.