The Three Biggest Hold-ups in the Writers Strike

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss the state of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, including the AMPTP’s decision to publicize its latest offer to the WGA, whether any ground is being made, whether Netflix is best suited to initiate an agreement, and whether the fall is still a reasonable time for all of this to end. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.3	It is Monday, August 28th.
0:17.1	Not a great week for the writer's strike.
0:19.6	Talks haven't been going well, so the frustrated studio heads decided to publicize their
0:23.8	latest offer.
0:25.0	They hoped it would show the larger WGA membership that they had sweetened the offer
0:29.0	significantly and that those members would then put pressure on the Guild's negotiating
0:33.3	committee.
0:34.3	It's still too early to say that strategy worked.
0:36.7	Guild leadership called it a tactic to
0:38.4	quote, divide us. And there was a lot of backlash on social media, but the WGA is more than 11,000
0:44.2	members, and many of them likely saw that new offer as a big improvement over the initial one. We'll get
0:49.2	into that today. Meanwhile, things are getting really bad around town. The fall TV season basically gone for scripted shows.
0:56.5	Companies are firing and furlowing more people.
0:59.2	Last week, Warner Brothers pushed Dune Part 2 to 2024.
1:03.7	Other movies have been pushed and I expect more delays will be announced after Labor Day.
1:07.7	It's fall as well as spring and summer movies.
1:10.4	And that impacts not just the
1:11.5	studios, but the theater owners, the whole industry that is dependent on summer movies, still recovering
1:16.4	from COVID. The Emmys were pushed. The fall festivals are going to be a mostly star-free affair.
1:22.4	Amazon un-renewed a couple shows last week, the peripheral in a league of their own, citing the strike.
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