The three-year agreement with studios, producers and streaming services includes significant wins in the main areas writers had fought for.
, Bill Maher led the charge back to work by announcing early Wednesday that his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher” would be back on the air Friday.On Tuesday night, board members from the writers union approved a, bringing the industry at least partly back from a historic halt in production that stretched nearly five months.
Scripted shows will take longer to return, with actors still on strike and no negotiations yet on the horizon. The union had sought minimum increases in pay and future residual earnings from shows and will get a raise of between 3.5% and 5% in those areas — more than the studios had offered.
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