In an upbeat annual report to members released Friday, WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson said that despite the hardships imposed by the pandemic, “overall our members’ earnings remained remarkably strong.” Freelance film, TV and streaming writers, he wrote, “have mostly remained employed throughout the pandemic,” though “some members certainly lost work opportunities – series that did not go forward, pitches left unmade, potential feature projects stuck in limbo.”Currently, Peterson said, “All writers’ rooms “remain fully remote.
We worked closely with our sister unions to ensure that showrunners and other writers could have safe access to the set as production slowly returned in the fall of 2020.” He noted, however, that “shorter
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