The cast of “Grey’s Anatomy” spent their lunch break today by joining their writers on the picket lines yelling the chant’s “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Management can’t write the show!” and “Webisodes and DVD, we won’t write ‘em, not for free!” Just about every major cast member was there: Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl, Eric Dane, Sara Ramirez, Brooke Smith, Justin Chambers and James Pickens, Jr. 

In an interview with E! Heigl had this to say: 

“The thing is, I watch a lot of TV on the internet. I download everything, including my own stuff, when I’m sitting at home, when I’m on set, I can watch it on my laptop for free on ABC.com, or NBC.com or any of the sites. And they’re definitely putting in commercials, they’re putting in big blocks of advertising time and they’re making money off re-airing these episodes online. When an episode airs more than once on television, the actors and the writers and the directors get residuals for that. And right now, the studios are allowed to repeat these shows online for the people that didn’t catch them the night before without giving out a fair share of the profits.”