This is Day 76 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. The morning after the WGA strike was called to an end, the SAG-AFTRA picket lines thinned out at Warner Bros.
Discovery and Disney, with significantly fewer stars, however, a handful of scribes continued to turnout for their thespian brethren.
Elated about the WGA strike’s end, For All Mankind writer Bradley Thompson, beamed at the Disney gates, “About freakin’ time!” With a new scribe deal that contains big leaps in AI guardrails, residuals and data transparency for writers, Station 19 and Cruel Summer co-EP Anupam Nigham told Deadline, “It feels good that we got them to come up from $86M to $233M [annually] over three years.” With movement made on the writers room minimum staffing front, the new deal will see that by Dec.
1, development rooms, otherwise known as pre-greenlight rooms, and regular writers rooms for television and HBSVOD series will have requirements regarding the minimum number of writers who must be hired and the duration of their employment.
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