Joss Whedon

The Writers Guild strike currently crippling Hollywood moves to Massachusetts Friday when marquee TV writers Joss Whedon, Rob Kutner and Jaime Paglia throw a “Boston TV Party” to fuel support for the picket-sidelined scribes.

“This is the first of what we hope will be many more events like it in cities around the country,” said Paglia, a Cambridge homey who is the writer/producer of the Sci Fi Channel’s No. 1 hit “Eureka.”

“We’ve had great fan outreach in support of the Guild and this is a way to get even more people involved,” he said.

In addition to Paglia, Whedon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel”) and Kutner, of “The Daily Show,” - who were picked for rally duty because of their hardcore fanbase - the union is expecting several celebrity guests to join the TV Party.

And apparently, out in La-La, the picket lines have been rather festive! Fans from as far away as England have flocked to the Left Coast to walk arm-in-arm with their favorite writers, make picket signs and bring the strikers snacks.

Some 12,000 screenwriters walked off the job in early November in a dispute with Hollywood film and TV producers over online revenue. The union wants a 2percent share of the profits from films and TV shows made available online.

The producers are balking and the dispute has already thrown the fall TV season into turmoil, with many shows already in reruns and reality TV taking over the airwaves.

“Before you know it, it will be ‘Dancing with Celebrity Star Pets,’ ” Paglia said. “It’s gonna get ugly.”

On Friday, the festivities begin at the Meeting House of the First Parish Unitarian Church in Cambridge, where writers and celebrities will speak. Then the strikers and fans will march across Harvard Square to the Harvard Lampoon building for a rally.

“We encourage people to bring their own picket signs, (tasteful slogans please,)” the union says in a press release, “and look forward to having writers and fans march side by side in support of the people who provide the content that gives the studios and television networks their record profits.”