Soon, television viewers may no longer have to be subjected to lame reality shows and reruns of Grey’s Anatomy.

Ten weeks after writers put down their pens to pick up picket signs, the Writers Guild of America says it may resume negotiations to end the longest writers strike since 1988.

The Directors Guild of America reached a tentative three-year contract agreement yesterday with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which may spur the WGA to do the same. The directors’ contracts will include new benefits — monetary compensation — for Internet distribution and increased wages.

The Writers Guild of America said it will review a new proposal and discuss returning to contract-negotiations with the AMPTP, according to a WGA-West press release.

The WGA went on strike Nov. 5, seeking compensation for Internet and new media distribution. If the WGA cannot reach an agreement by summer, other entertainment heavyweights will join them, industry-sources say.

“Writers want to be compensated for their work when it is written for and/or used in new media. If the producers [and] networks get paid, the writers must get paid,” WGA-East spokeswoman Sherry Goldman said in an email.

The writers are facing off with big business and the public is on the writers’ side, Goldman said.

Goldman said the absence of writers has caused a flood of reality television shows this season.

Goldman said the majority of scripted television production has stopped. “The strike cannot end until the AMPTP returns to the bargaining table and enters into serious negotiations with the writers,” she said.

“The actors plan to go on strike in June [if the writers’ strike has not ended],” said American Dad prop designer Zeke Johnson.

A source for the Screen Actors Guild confirmed the SAG will be negotiating a new contract in June, but would not elaborate on talks of an actors’ strike. She said the Guild is currently preparing for negotiations.

“There’s a lot of people out of work right now,” Johnson said. “The studios are trying to hang on to people as long as they can.”

Writers want to end strikes for their own sakes, fearing they may not have a job to return to if negotiations do not resume soon, Johnson said.

“I really hope it ends soon,” he said. “I don’t want to go work at McDonald’s.”

The AMTP has refused to negotiate with the writers, partly due to their poor relationship with the unions, said costume designer guild member Gail McMullen said before the DGA signed its contract.

In yesterday’s press release, the AMPTP invited the WGA to resume negotiations.

“I think the producers want to break the unions because they cost them a lot of money,” McMullen said.

For now, college students looking for internships in Tinseltown may still be able to find it.

“The shows that some of the students work on are not operating,” said Boston University Los Angeles program director Bill Lindsman. “However, we have 500 [or more] internship providers and the far majority of them are continuing to hire interns and employ them fully.”