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Get ready for fewer new episodes of your favorite TV series.

We’re hearing Hollywood agents far and wide are bracing for another writers’ strike.

While the union negotiates a fresh contract every three years, it’s been a decade since the last strike — a stunning 100-day walkout that put Tinseltown productions on ice. The Writers Guild ultimately went back to work after members got a piece of digital revenue.

Back in 2007, Deadline’s erstwhile editor Nikki Finke chronicled the breakdown in negotiations between Hollywood’s big media companies and the folks who write the shows.

Consumers a decade ago had to live with fewer episodes of “Heroes,” but if talks don’t go well now the networks could have a tough time with the annual show-and-tell TV upfront presentations in May.

“The Writers Guilds of America, West and East, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced they will begin formal contract negotiations March 13. The current Minimum Basic Agreement expires May 1,” the union said.

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