Below is the complete, interactive guide to the documentary, broken down into thematic chapters so you can explore the timeline, the fan movement, and the corporate decisions that reshaped the network TV landscape.
When the 2023 Hollywood labor dispute ground the entertainment industry to a halt for 191 days, it wasn't just a battle over streaming residuals and AI—it became a turning point for the future of network television. In this comprehensive, multi-part independent documentary, LA Emmy-winning creator Alessandro Machi digs deep into the aftermath of the historic work stoppage. Who Does That? investigates the controversial cancellation of five major, strike-honoring, scripted CBS series—including So Help Me Todd, Blue Bloods, and NCIS: Hawai'i—before they could even air their post-strike episodes.
🕵️ Part 1: Ground Zero—The Plot to Cancel Strike-Honoring Shows
The documentary begins by exposing specific scheduling anomalies, regional spin-offs, and the 125+ day disappearance of beloved scripted series.
- 30:05 — Chapter 21: Don't you just love a cliffhanger?
- 33:24 — Chapter 23: A super simple solution
- 33:59 — Chapter 24: NCIS Sydney: Ground Zero for the plot to cancel numerous strike honoring CBS scripted television series
- 35:22 — Chapter 25: The time four out of five presumptively canceled CBS television series suddenly disappeared from the CBS 2023 fall schedule for well over 125 days
📣 Part 2: The CBS vs. Paramount Plus Streaming Paradox
Investigating the internal friction between legacy broadcast television and the corporate push toward subscription-based streaming models.
- 12:41 — Chapter 14: It's not me, It’s you
- 17:32 — Chapter 15: Paramount Plus; Frenemy of CBS linear broadcast television
- 28:44 — Chapter 20: Entertainment Studios subscription addiction
- 31:14 — Chapter 22: Emmygate
🛑 Part 3: The Petitions, Facebook Obstacles, and Fan Resistance
Detailing the grassroots fan movement to save the canceled shows, and how big tech algorithms stalled the community's momentum.
- 19:15 — Chapter 16: When CBS fans and their favorite CBS television series just don't matter to Paramount Global, it's petition time
- 24:38 — Chapter 17: How Facebook and Paramount Global paralyzed the So Help Me Todd petition movement
- 25:35 — Chapter 18: Hiding in plain sight
- 26:19 — Chapter 19: Is it ethical when social media sites collect ad money from humans while offering no human ad sales support?
🎬 Part 4: The Strike, AI, and the Industry Standoff
Rewinding to the background context: exploring the build-up, the looming threat of artificial intelligence, and the grueling timeline of the dual union strikes.
- 0:00 — Chapter 1: Once upon a Time in Present Day Hollywood
- 2:13 — Special Segment: The AI Tilly Norwood Effect; warning About AI Before Tilly made the News
- 4:45 — Chapter 2: A fair and accountable world
- 5:20 — Chapter 3: 101 days
- 5:39 — Chapter 4: Take it or leave it
- 11:49 — Chapter 13: It took 191 days to achieve dual strike agreements. 4 days later a pathway towards breaking the 191 days strike agreements was initiated by someone from Paramount Global
🧐 Part 5: Corporate Incoherence and "Tree Shanking"
Examining the initial executive responses, flawed studio math, and the "miserymind" tactics deployed during the corporate standoff.
- 6:34 — Chapter 5: The not so great replacement
- 7:28 — Chapter 6: Tree shanking brain and noggins
- 9:00 — Chapter 7: Bringing the tree shanking miserymind to justice
- 9:38 — Chapter 8: Incoherent math from simple minds
- 14:53 — Chapter 9: A race to the bottom of civility and ethics
- 15:59 — Chapter 10: To hunker down or not to hunker down, that is the question. And a question so easily answered, it should have never been a question
- 16:43 — Chapter 11: Get Off My Lawn
- 10:43 — Chapter 12: Wanted dead but alive