After picketing for months, striking Hollywood writers will vote on a proposed deal their union has hailed as 'exceptional'. But it would be far from back to business as usual in Hollywood even if they endorse it.
The proposed solution to the writers strike comes after talks resumed on Wednesday for the first time in a month. Chief executives including Bob Iger of Disney, Ted Sarandos of Netflix, David Zaslav of Warner Bros. Discovery and Donna Langley of NBCUniversal reportedly took part in the negotiations directly.
About 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America walked off the job 2 May over issues of pay, the size of writing staffs on shows and the use of artificial intelligence in the creation of scripts. Actors, who joined the writers on strike in July, have their own issues but there have been no discussions about resuming negotiations with their union yet.
The writers strike immediately sent late-night talk shows and Saturday Night Live into hiatus, and has since put dozens of scripted shows and other productions into limbo, including forthcoming seasons of Netflix's Stranger Things, HBO's The Last of Us, and ABC's Abbot Elementary, and films including Deadpool 3 and Superman: Legacy. The Emmy Awards were also pushed from September to January.
The tentative deal comes after five marathon days of renewed talks by negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and an alliance of studios.More recently, writers had been targeting talk shows that were working around strike rules to return to air, including The Drew Barrymore Show, Real Time With Bill Maher, and The Talk. All reversed course in the face of picketing and pressure, and are likely to quickly return now.
The combined strikes made for a pivotal moment in Hollywood as creative labour faced off against executives in a business transformed and torn by technology, from the seismic shift to streaming in recent years to the potentially paradigm-shifting emergence of AI in the years to come.There is no deal is yet in the works for striking actors.
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