The clock is ticking toward a costly strike that could shut down production on most television shows, pushing back the return of many programs now set for the fall.
Last month, members of the Writers Guild of America voted 98% in favor of going on strike if no new deal is reached before their current contract expires at 11:59 pm PDT Monday. With less than a day left before the deadline, the two sides appear far apart.
The union is negotiating with Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, which represents Amazon, Apple, CBS, Disney, NBC Universal, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony and CNN's parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. "If this goes on we'll see more reality, news and sports," said Jonathan Handel, an entertainment attorney and author of the book, Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age.Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "There's a lot of unfinished business from 2020 negotiations that were raised then but then put on ice by the pandemic," he said.
Lifestyles New this week: Ed Sheeran, Watergate and Pete Davidson There could be as many as 20,000 workers working on as many as 600 productions who could be out of work if the writers shutdown production, according to an estimate from AMPTP. The 2007 strike caused an estimated $2 billion in economic damage. Adjusted for inflation, that comes to nearly $3 billion today.
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