The WGA strike is raising issues that will feature prominently in other union disputes this year. Nightly reports 👇
Members of the Writers Guild of America picket outside Fox Studios today in Los Angeles. | Ashley Landis/AP Photo— As the clock hit midnight, the Writers Guild of America went on strike after over 15 years of labor peace. Your favorite shows won’t stop immediately — with most television produced well in advance, the two sides still have some runway to work out their differences beforeBut this year’s work stoppage is about much more than the programming that fills up screens.
As more shows come online due to streaming, studios have begun what are colloquially referred to as “mini-rooms” — writers’ rooms, or groups of writers, who collaborate on scripts — for shows that have yet to be greenlit. Writers working in these “mini-rooms” are often paid less, due to the fact that not all of their work reaches streaming platforms.
As of today, around 11,000 film and television writers are on strike. When they leave their posts, though, it’s not only scribes that Hollywood loses. Most late-night shows have plans to go dark immediately, depriving networks of programming and other workers on these shows of paychecks. The same is true of any shows in production that have ground to a halt. As the strike drags on, these losses will add up.
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