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SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher called out the misogyny that dogged her in strike negotiations and coverage, saying it was "disgusting." She's opined on that before but remarks today met a particularly receptive audience at the annual gala of New York Women In Film & Television where she was honored…

EXCLUSIVE: After leading SAG-AFTRA through its latest round of negotiations with the AMPTP, guild President Fran Drescher (The Nanny) has been set to join the sequel to 1984 cult classic This Is Spinal Tap, reprising her role as publicist Bobbi Flekman. Other new additions to the cast include Don…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher, Kyra Sedgewick, Frontline's Raney Aronson-Rath and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Alex Borstein will among those honored at the New York Women In Film & Television Muse Awards later this month. Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of PBS Front…

After a rather tame show last month, the freewheeling Golden Globes are kind of back. Only now they go by the name the 30th annual SAG Awards, which had a whole lot of the Globes and the Emmys in their bloodstream Saturday. Finally on Netflix proper after being relegated to the streamer's YouTube…

Three months after SAG-AFTRA ended its long and bitter strike against the studios, guild president Fran Drescher took a glamourous and humorous victory lap in front of some of her most notable members Saturday at the SAG Awards. Thanking IATSE, “Teamsters and basic crafts” at the top of her onstage…

If there’s a holy grail of awards opening monologues, it’s Judd Apatow’s at the DGA Awards. In typical fashion, the filmmaker who is known for his killer Bill Cosby impersonation, took the mic for the fifth time to host the DGA Awards — with the opening monologue cut off to the press room. Don’t ask…

Hollywood's long strike season is over and the town can finally get back to work without the specter of any more labor action, for now. Actors were on strike for 118 days, but after ratifying the deal between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, with a very healthy 78.33% of the votes, thesps, scribes…

Over two weeks after SAG-AFTRA reached a deal with the studios and ended their nearly four-month long strike, the actors guild has just released the full text of the tentative agreement. We'll get into the fine print soon with analysis of this draft document (as Guild National Director Duncan…

For a Friday that is time for reflection and giving thanks, host Billy Ray and returning original host Todd Garner welcomes WGA president Meredith Stiehm and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher. They talk with the guys about the lessons learned from the long and brutal six month strike that is finally and…

Matthew Modine voted against SAG-AFTRA's tentative agreement with the studios once, and he's damn sure going to vote against it again. "Consent, in the context of this agreement, is tyranny," says the National Board member in a lengthy pre-Thanksgiving statement decrying the deal, especially its AI…

Fran Drescher may have injected some Buddhism into SAG-AFTRA's online meeting today on the new tentative agreement with the studios, but there was almost nothing monastic about the guild president's opinion of critics of the November 8 deal.   "I just want you to know that nobody was thrown under the…

Less than 48 hours before SAG-AFTRA members begin voting on ratifying their new deal with the studios, the actors guild has released an extensive summary of the potential three-year contract. Read SAG-AFTRA’s summary of its 2023 Tentative Agreement in full below and our analysis, or click here to dow…