Writers Guild Strike

After an unprecedented summer of strikes, the ripple effects continue to hit the 2023-24 awards season. In a flipping of the script, the WGA Awards now will be held on April 14 – more than a month after the Academy Awards. In a statement to Deadline, the WGA West and East pointed to their nearly…

Drew Carey today saluted the writers who thanked him for the meals he provided strikers at Bob’s Big Boy and Swingers during the WGA work stoppage. It was his first public comments on his charitable efforts. “I deeply appreciate all the love and thanks. It (was worth) every dime. But if you really…

"Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?" Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor's ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year. "Well, first of all, they picked a fight with us," a literally suited and cowboy booted…

DC co-Boss James Gunn took to Instagram’s Threads to field fan questions, and in the process confirmed that Xolo Maridueña will continue to play Blue Beetle, Oscar winner Viola Davis will still be Amanda Waller and John Cena will remain Peacemaker. Much of this isn’t shocking, as Gunn has already…

The idea of showrunners such as The White Lotus' Mike White and Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan writing entire series of television by themselves was a much-debated topic of conversation during the WGA's long summer strike. After the WGA scored minimum staffing requirements in its deal with the AMPTP…

EXCLUSIVE: “This strike was way too long, because the companies took so long to get serious,” WGA West President Meredith Stiehm declared tonight of the nearly 150 days the Writers Guild was out on the picket lines before a tentative agreement was reached on September 24. “I feel sad and pained that…

UPDATED with more deal details & analysis: After almost five months, the Writers Guild’s strike will be officially over at 12:01 a.m. PT Wednesday. “Today, your Negotiating Committee, the WGAW Board and WGAE Council all voted unanimously to recommend the agreement,” the guild said of the tentative agr…

WGA members who will lose their health coverage on October 1 will be granted extended coverage through the end of the year, per the guild’s tentative agreement. The extension also applies to writers who will exhaust their COBRA benefits eligibility. WGA members will soon be voting to ratify the new deal…

With an excitement in the air after the WGA and AMPTP’s tentative deal and with scribes poised to return to daytime and late-night TV talk shows, the new agreement’s impact on the motion picture side may not be as immediate given how those unfinished feature productions hinge on studios settling with…

ABC will proceed as planned with the Sept. 26 season premiere of Dancing with the Stars in light of the WGA and the studios reaching a tentative agreement Sunday night. The reality competition will kick off its 32nd season with its full celebrity cast, including Veep star Matt Walsh, a dual SAG-AFTRA…

UPDATED, with additional comment: President Joe Biden praised the tentative agreement to end the Writers Guild of America strike, saying that it showed that workers “deserve a fair share of the value their labor helped create.” In a statement on Monday, Biden said: “I applaud the Writers Guild of…

UK industry bodies Bectu and the Writers Guild of Great Britain are saluting the tentative agreement reached on Sunday by the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end the writers strike after nearly five months. They also called for a speedy resolution to the SAG-AFTRA…