For weeks now, SAG-AFTRA has been in talks with employers about pay for performers who suddenly found their shows shut down last month. The union, which also has been talking about it to Hollywood’…
its members on the progress of discussions with the companies, largely involving series regulars on ongoing series and pilots, and the main sticking point in them.
Netflix and HBO are known to be the only major TV companies to pay the series regulars on their impacted series using two different templates. Other studios remain in deep discussions with SAG-AFTRA. “As a courtesy,” one studio told its performers in an email obtained by Deadline, “Performer will be advanced pay for the period Performer was booked and did not work during the week of March 16, 2020 and March 23, 2020, if any, which additional payment
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