For the last six months, Hollywood has been consumed by strikes.

One day longer.

One day stronger!

Writers and actors have been on the picket line, fighting with big studios.

In September, writers reached a deal, but actors were still holding out.

Our colleague Joe Flint, who covers Hollywood,

was right in the thick of it.

We'd been aware that they were inching closer to deal

for the last several days,

so pretty much every day for the past week I've been

checking in with both sides. Where are we? What is the holdup? What's going on?

Because every day we kept hearing, this could be be the day and I checked before I went to

bed because the last few times these things have happened late at night so I'm

literally reaching out to people can I go to bed now that was sort of my level of being plugged in can I go to bed now? That was sort of my level of being plugged in.

Can I go to bed?

You're just like living and breathing this thing.

Exactly, kind of living and breathing this thing.

And then last week, the longest actor strike in Hollywood history finally came to an end.

Fran Dresher, their president of the actors union, made the announcement.

We hold in our hands a record-breaking contract that has broken new ground and pattern

again and again and again.

And actors reactions were Oscar worthy.

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