The most gripping TV drama of the year is happening behind closed doors.
on behalf of herself and other WGA-side negotiators about what would happen once negotiations began. “There may be rumors or leaks to the press about what is going on in that room,” Cannon said, speaking to fellow members of the WGA. “Take these with a grain of salt. They are likely coming from the studios and are intended to scare or distract you and to undermine our strength at the table.”
After the strike was officially announced, both sides put out documents detailing how negotiations went on both sides of the discussion.detailed multiple times in which the AMPTP “rejected” their proposal outright, including on issues like weekly pay for feature writers, AI on MBA-covered projects, and on viewership-based streaming residuals.
Puck, however, disputed this positive version of events, calling it a “smokescreen,” harkening back to Cannon’s comments about the press. “A well-informed and impartial source, albeit from outside the room, tells me that the report’s spin was ‘nonsense’ and the alleged movement is a ‘charade,’” Jonathan Handel wrote in Puck. He claimed that the negotiations were mostly made up of the two sides reading speeches at each other rather than discussing matters.
Negotiations concluded on Monday, May 1, without an agreement, leading to a strike. There’s no word yet on when negotiations will resume, though members heard a full report from the Negotiating Committee on Wednesday May 3 at 7 p.m. ET.Notable Hollywood names have taken to Twitter to voice their support for strike authorization. “It’s about writers getting their fair share,” Daniel Kwan wrote on Twitter. “It’s about maintaining a healthy middle/working class of writers in our industry.
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