The only thing that can be said about this week in television is that there have been a lot of reruns.

Television hasn’t been the same since the writers’ strike. Take “The Daily Show” for instance. Aside from being a culturally important program, lots of people actually get their news from it.

Now, it’s hard to curl up after a long day of class and watch the same episode of “The Daily Show” that ran about two months ago.

What the industry does to its writers is not giving them a cut of the DVD sales, which is unfair. But “The Daily Show” is not a show that sells a lot of DVDs. So how bad could the royalties be skewed?

There should be pressure on Jon Stewart and his crew to try to carry on. Throughout this strike, it seems like nobody can fill the writers’ shoes. But where are the scabs? There have to be some college aged people willing to write for television shows that have no writers.

We could even find some new talent if less experienced writers tried their hands for some of these shows.

Truthfully, there would be low expectations of a show with new writers, but some people would gain a lot of respect if they soldiered on and tried to put something together for their fans.

Either way, this strike needs to stop. The world is sick of reruns, and honestly, reality TV is trash, to say the least. The last thing we need is another endless series of reality television.

So, writers, make your decision. Are you really prepared to send your viewing audience into people that refuse to watch original programming by the time you make your money back? Maybe you should set up a PayPal account. I would send you $3 personally.

Good luck, writers, I have to go watch an episode of “The Colbert Report.” Did you hear he broke his wrist yesterday?