This episode of The Town is presented to you by AMC Networks.

Billy Magnuson and Zach Galfinacus star in the new series The Audacity on AMC and AMC Plus.

Influence rises, people unravel, and CEO meltdowns are business as usual among Silicon Valley Elite,

executive produced by Jonathan Glasser, a writer-producer of succession and better call

Saul. The audacity premieres April 12th, only on AMC and AMC Plus.

It is Monday, April 6th, quite a shocker over the holiday weekend.

I reported on Saturday morning that the W' guilt, typically the most aggressive of

the Hollywood unions and one of the two that went on strike about three years ago and shut

the industry down, they reached a surprise deal with the studios.

That's after only a few weeks of negotiations and well before the end of the negotiation

window.

The deal must still be ratified by the membership, but that's expected to happen.

And the WGA put out a statement saying the deal, quote, protects our health plan and puts

it on a sustainable path.

And it, quote, builds on the gains from 2023 and helps address free work challenges. That health care issue was the big one,

given how underwater the Guild's health plan was. And I'm told there are the usual increases

in minimums, particularly for streaming video series and movies, as well as AI protections

when the studios want to use scripts to train AI models. On the studio side, the big get was that this is a four-year deal.

That's a year longer than usual than a big concession for the writers.

That's what they had to give to get the big health plan bailout.

Overall, this is great news for Hollywood in general at a time when another writer's

strike would have been disastrous.

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