It's not the stories it will stop from being told, but the ones it may allow to be heard.
You’re probably bummed that Succession and Barry are ending this Spring. But there’s so much content to be had; you will easily find a new favorite show quickly… right? Call me Debbie Downer because I’m here to deliver the unfortunate news; it’s not just Succession and Barry that are coming to a close. There’s an increasingly likely chance that all new scripted programming is about to come to a screeching halt. No new Abbott Elementary. No new Perry Mason. No new Mrs. Davis.
“After two weeks at the bargaining table, [the studios] have failed to offer meaningful responses on the core economic issues in any of the WGA’s primary work areas — screen, episodic television and comedy-variety,” WGA negotiators said in a statement. “They have listened politely to our presentations and made small moves in only a few areas, almost entirely coupled with rollbacks designed to offset any gains.
So the WGA has some legit grievances, and it’s not surprising that corporations, seemingly intent on drowning us in a paradox of choice every night when we sit down at our TVs, have squeezed writers for every last content drop. To rectify the situation, the WGA’s demands are simple: pay us more money, or we turn off the story pipeline. Just this week other industry unions like the American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA, the DGA, IATSE, and the Teamsters all expressed their support for WGA.
The Last Writer's Strike Had Unforeseen Consequences We are without precedent, but we aren’t without history. The last writers’ strike lasted four months in 2007-2008 and mainly concerned the WGA’s demand for jurisdiction over “new media.” It was a prescient request, given that “new media” was defined as content written or distributed through emerging digital technology. You know, like streaming.
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