Writers Guild of America leaders are seeking major gains in writer pay for comedy-variety shows on streaming platforms. “Series like ‘Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj,’ ‘I Thin…
“Series like ‘,’ ‘I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson’ and ‘The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show’ provide streaming platforms like Netflix with different types of entertaining content, which in turns helps those companies attract new subscribers,” the message from the WGA’s negotiating committee said.
The negotiating committee said the new contract needs to cover other comedy-variety series that may be shifted over to streaming platforms in the future.
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