Actors side with writers as latter's contract expiry nears

[Bob Jersey]

The SAG-AFTRA board voted Saturday to approve a resolution "strongly in support" of the WGA during its negotiations... the talent group's own deal with the Alliance is up in June... https://deadline.com/2023/04/sag-aftra-board-votes-unanimously-strongly-support-wga-contract-talks-amptp-1235334232/ (link)

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[Tom Wolper]

I’m surprised we haven’t seen more coverage of the upcoming writers’ strike. The TV business has changed so much since the last one that it’s hard to figure out how TV will be affected.

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 10:34 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The SAG-AFTRA board voted Saturday to approve a resolution "strongly in support" of the WGA during its negotiations... the talent group's own deal with the Alliance is up in June... https://deadline.com/2023/04/sag-aftra-board-votes-unanimously-strongly-support-wga-contract-talks-amptp-1235334232/ (link)

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[Kevin M.]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 12:17 PM Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote:

I’m surprised we haven’t seen more coverage of the upcoming writers’ strike. The TV business has changed so much since the last one that it’s hard to figure out how TV will be affected.

Many of the companies that produce the news also produce the content that is going to be affected by a strike, so I suspect they are keeping it as low key as possible (not exactly following journalistic ethics) hoping to avoid a drop in media stocks. 

From what I’ve seen and read, this strike has the potential to go for a long time. And writers and showrunners have been flying under the radar  to finish as many scripts as possible ahead of time (not exactly following pre-strike etiquette), but there is a real possibility that no new written content will be sold until 2025. 

This means more “reality” and competition programming, less (or no) of everything else. 

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 10:34 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The SAG-AFTRA board voted Saturday to approve a resolution "strongly in support" of the WGA during its negotiations... the talent group's own deal with the Alliance is up in June... https://deadline.com/2023/04/sag-aftra-board-votes-unanimously-strongly-support-wga-contract-talks-amptp-1235334232/ (link)

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[Tom Wolper]

The little I’ve seen about consequences is that network TV will rely more heavily on unscripted programming which wouldn’t be a surprise and wouldn’t be that meaningful in the larger TV universe. Since streaming shows have shorter seasons I assume they have enough stocked away for a year. I wonder about the intersection of a possible shakeout of streaming services and a strike that keeps them from launching new series or new seasons of current series.

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