Not only are some studios demanding that showrunners continue their non-writing work during the writers’ strike, some seem to find ways not to pay them.
Last week, Disney, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Studios under Discovery’s corporate umbrella have sent a letter to show producers the companies employ, stating that they are expected to complete non-writing services. At a meeting of the show’s producers on Saturday, a writer-producer told Deadline that they were “more convinced than ever before that what we do is unwritten, and more united.” Deadline on Sunday, Warner Bros. Television reported that Universal Studio Group, CBS Studios and Disney Television Studios have sent letters from certain studios, including 20th Television and ABC Signature, suspending their general agreement to the series producers.
by David Simon Phone and he wrote for HBO decades later, apparently being one of them. on Monday, he tweeted a video from a WGA protest and “I was doing the writing job the day HBO called me to suspend my deal after 25 years of writing television for them.”
Simon, who did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment, was not the only leading showrunner to tweet from the strike lines. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit showrunner Warren Leight noted, at least in a certain way, that this year’s strike is very different from the previous one.
“The weirdest thing that could happen on the Silvercup East line today,” Leight said. tweeted Monday. “A man on a motorcycle stops, docks one of us, and pulls out two test tubes filled with perfectly rounded joints. Sativa. Good stuff. For you.’ Then he rides a bike. That didn’t happen in 2007.”
At another Silvercup location, Poker face by Christine Boylan tweeted a photo A luncheon sent to the strikers courtesy of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Since the strike began, a number of leading writers and showrunners have been speaking out loud about their working conditions and compensation. Abbott Elementary School writer Brittany Nichols discussed the corrupted leftovers system, which she pointed out failed to compensate writers commensurate with the success of their show. In a CNN interview last week, man ruins everything creator Adam Conover, owner of CNN Warner Bros. It angered Discovery’s CEO, David Zaslav, for making the same amount that 10,000 authors “collectively” demanded.
Other unions also stepped in to support the WGA. On Monday, news of the productions came in, including for Apple TVs. seniority it was closed in response to the strike; inside congratulatory tweet, Conover thanked the Teamsters and IATSE for helping the effort by honoring the WGA’s strike line. Countless actors have also voiced their support, including Amanda Seyfried, Melanie Lynskey, Jennifer Coolidge, and more.
It seems that the theme of the day among Hollywood workers is solidarity. On Monday, Simon also retweeted Hollywood Teamsters chief Lindsay Doughterty’s support for the WGA strike. “If #WGAStrong, #DGA,
#SAGAFTRA, #IATSE And #TEAMMATES to stay together
this cycle can transform this recession-proof, profitable and over-greedy industry,” he wrote.
This reflects another sentiment of writer and comedian Franchesca Ramsey. tweeted She added last week that “it is not why teachers are underpaid,” adding that TV writers “are not the reason nurses are underpaid, nor are nurses the reason that assembly line workers are underpaid.”
“[We] they are not in competition with each other,” he wrote – “everyone deserves a living wage.”