SAG-AFTRA Reaches Deal With Studios on Actors’ Exclusivity
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media WriterSAG-AFTRA announced on Monday evening that it has reached a tentative agreement with the major studios on actor exclusivity periods, an issue that has become a top priority for the union in recent years.The issue affects actors on TV series, who can find themselves barred from working on other projects for many months or even years between TV seasons.
The union has said that the issue has grown acute in the streaming era, with seasons getting shorter and with longer delays between seasons.The union backed a bill, AB 437, in the California legislature, which aims to eliminate exclusivity periods from actors’ contracts.
The Motion Picture Association opposed the bill, saying it would create a scheduling nightmare and make it much more difficult to produce multiple seasons of a show.
Despite that opposition, the bill cleared a key hurdle in the Senate Appropriations Committee last week, and appeared to be headed toward passage.
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