Writers' Strike CONSEQUENCES_ Here's What We Know - writers strike 2023

Writers' Strike CONSEQUENCES_ Here's What We Know - writers strike 2023
The Writers Guild of America called on their members to launch a strike on Monday night after the contract negotiation period with major studios ended without a new deal in place. The walkout will likely result in a halt of production on most TV shows produced in Hollywood for the first time in 15 years.

Last month, members of the guild voted overwhelmingly, at 98%, in favor of a strike action if the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the major studios, failed to reach an agreement on a new deal by the impending contract expiration at midnight Monday.

This critical moment over writers’ compensation in the age of streaming ignited a passionate discussion on the issues at play recently when The Times’ senior television writer Yvonne Villarreal gathered the minds behind six of the most talked about TV shows — Bill Lawrence (“Shrinking”), Craig Mazin (“The Last of Us”), Janine Nabers (“Swarm”), John Hoffman (“Only Murders in the Building”), Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”) and Liz Tigelaar (“Tiny Beautiful Things”) — for one of The Envelope’s upcoming Emmys Roundtables. Here’s what they had to say about residuals, the rise of “mini rooms” — in which small groups of writers (who the WGA claims are often underpaid) are assembled to create episodes before the show is actually greenlighted — and the broken pathways of growth for new writers. The full video of this interview segment will be coming shortly. It was originally recorded as part of our Emmys Roundtable conversations debuting on The Envelope in the coming months.