As you have no doubt already heard, the WGA is on strike right now. Just over a week into it, this strike has already caused quite a few disruptions, with productions being halted and development coming to a standstill.
But that didn’t stop studios, such as Disney, from mandating that productions continue, and if it’s a TV series, the showrunner must continue “non-writing” duties.
This mandate has led to a lot of confusion about how well a showrunner can produce TV without any changes to scripts or writing things on the day.
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