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Post by Jeremy on Aug 21, 2023 5:58:58 GMT -8
Scattered updates:
- The WGA strike is now deep in its fourth month. It has now lasted longer than the 2007 strike (which spanned 100 days). If it drags on another few weeks, it will be the longest writers' strike in Hollywood history. - Unsurprisingly, the Emmy Awards have been postponed to January (although the voting period and schedule will not change). - As with Covid, we're already seeing long-term effects of the strike beyond "just hitting pause" - Amazon has reneged on some renewals and cancelled two shows (A League of Their Own and The Peripheral) that had previously been renewed. The longer the strikes go on, the more studios will be looking to cut costs and free up their production pipeline.
The WGA is resuming negotiations this week. No word yet on SAG; even if the writers reach an agreement with Hollywood, the actors have their own fight. Audiences will likely start to notice the effects of both strikes on their TV schedules next month.
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Post by Jeremy on Sept 25, 2023 18:14:11 GMT -8
Okay, we now have a tentative deal which could lead to the end of the writers' strike. Nothing official yet, but WGA is suspending their picketing and will vote on whether to cease the strike. The actors' strike is still ongoing, and may or may not be incentivized by the writers' developments, but things at last seem to be getting somewhere.
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Post by Jeremy on Nov 8, 2023 18:41:01 GMT -8
After four months, the actors' strike is over! For the first time in over half a year, Hollywood is strike-free (pending finalization of the deal, blah blah blah, you don't care).
One interesting side effect of these strikes has been the sobering discovery that, for all the buzz about prestige cable and streaming shows, a lot of people in America still watch... plain ol' seasonal network television. Which meant that my mom (who watches a lot of the procedurals, which she fondly dubs the "alphabet shows," on the broadcast networks) has been constantly asking me what the status is regarding the strike and when she will get to watch the new season of FBI: Most Wanted.
Anyway, most avid fans of cable/streaming shows probably haven't noticed the effects of the strike, since many of those shows were filmed months in advance, and because there's generally no fixed schedule for the shows to adhere to. But I expect we will notice some of the slowdown in the early months of 2024 (heck, already some shows - like the new seasons of Fargo and True Detective - have been postponed to spread out the calendar).
Movies, too, will likely be affected, with the summer 2024 season potentially damaged. Though the upside is that since the writers' and actors' strikes largely occurred simultaneously, there probably weren't too many messy situations where the latter was forced to carry on without the help of the former. As opposed to the 2007 strike, when Hollywood filmed a bunch of movies that did not have completed scripts! If you're wondering how that turned out, go back and watch Quantum of Solace or X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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