Besides the absence of Fox’s 24 from the lineup the hardest thing to swallow from the second longest writers strike in Hollywood was going to be the canceling or gutting of the 80th Academy Awards. This is an awards show that has only been canceled in past years due to (declared) war and just thinking that it could have been shown much like the Golden Globes were this year put a very solid ball of unhappiness in my stomach. But just in time, the WGA settled their strike and the show, truly can go on.