What the Hollywood strikes mean for fall TV
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Strikes by Hollywood actors and entertainment writers are in full-swing, making this an unusual fall, television-wise. We’re looking at the impact on the coming season of television and the future of the industry.
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A Hollywood strike marches on, but that has not stopped the production of new shows altogether. The Post’s television critic Lili Loofbourow discusses some of the most hotly anticipated shows, including new series such as “The Other Black Girl,” “The Changeling” and “A Murder at the End of the World.” Then Lili breaks down what impact the Hollywood strike could have beyond the fall.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Lily, we're in the middle of this historic double strike in Hollywood right now. |
| 0:09.1 | There are members of the writer's guild of America, the screen actor's guild, they're |
| 0:14.6 | not working, they're not making new movies or shows, they're not promoting things that |
| 0:19.6 | have already been released. |
| 0:20.8 | You're the post-TV critic, does that mean that you are also not working right now? |
| 0:28.8 | That's my colleague, Lily Lufbrough. |
| 0:33.5 | Hollywood writers and actors have been on the picket line for months now. |
| 0:37.6 | Here's actor Steve Buscemi listing some of their demands at a rally in July. |
| 0:42.0 | We are here because so much is at stake, fair pay, revenue sharing, healthcare, retirement |
| 0:49.6 | funding, a fair casting process, AI protection and fair compensation. |
| 0:58.0 | But Lily says that hasn't stopped production for new shows altogether. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, there's still a lot of stuff coming out in the fall and streamers especially have |
| 1:07.9 | a pretty hefty backlog of shows that are ready to go and so while a few are still holding |
| 1:12.8 | on to shows and not releasing them yet, others are just, you know, going ahead and basically |
| 1:17.9 | airing new programming as planned. |
| 1:20.0 | So there's going to be plenty of new stuff to watch actually this fall, if this continues |
| 1:24.1 | for longer, we may see that change, but there will be new shows. |
| 1:30.2 | From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm your guest host, Rachel Siegel. |
| 1:35.6 | It's Friday, September 22nd. |
| 1:37.7 | Today, we preview some of the falls most hotly anticipated shows from a modern day fair |
| 1:43.8 | detail. |
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