Why ‘Heartstopper’ Season 3 Is Presumably Still Being Written by Alice Oseman Amid WGA and SAG Strike

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As the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes force many TV shows to press pause, season 3 of Netflix’s Heartstopper is seemingly still in development.Creator Alice Oseman — who also wrote the graphic novels that inspired the show — offered a status update ahead of the August premiere of season 2.“The Heartstopper Volume 5 publication date is moving to December 7th (UK/Ire/Aus/NZ) and December 19th (US)!

The book is turning out longer than I anticipated, and I’m also hard at work this summer writing the scripts for season 3 of the Heartstopper TV show, so I realised I needed some extra time to finish drawing the book,” Oseman, 28, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, July 19. “I’m so sorry that you have to wait a little longer but I promise it’ll be worth it!

Thank you for supporting the series!”While Oseman appears to be hard at work on new episodes, several showrunners have been taking a break to show solitary with entertainment unions.

In May, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced their decision to strike after a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. (The AMPTP represents major companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony.)Some TV shows — including Netflix’s Outer Banks — initially continued production with scripts which were presumably finished before the picket lines began.