Unity on April 17 screenwriters American, Writers Guild of America (WGA), put to vote strike call to improve working conditions For agents with 98% support. There are more than 11 thousand writers who have already left their jobs, leaving the future of the series and the most watched programs on television, which is the biggest strike of the industry since 2007.
The strike more than 15 years ago had a huge impact it causes many series and programs to end early or be forgotten. Now, a few years later, those named plan to wreak similar havoc ‘late night’ as their first victim.
As reported by Deadline, some star programs in the United States, such as ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’, ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ have stopped broadcasting. Others, like “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “The Daily Show,” will suffer the consequences. Finally, ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’, ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ will make their decisions in the coming days.
The demands put forward by the organizers of the meeting are summarized as follows: Increase in screenwriter salaries for movies, TV shows, humor and variety shows. On the other hand, they want to standardize the wages and remaining payments of film writers. Finally, strengthen regulation of a reasonable salary and AI-generated material throughout the production process of a film.