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49 minutes ago, Sesame said:

Maybe it’s time to stop paying actors and celebrities exorbitant amounts of money for contributing arguably the same amount as anyone else on the set does 

especially bc the actors that get famous off a tv show or film can go on and make lots of money from brand deals and sponsors, while writers will never get those kinds of opportunities

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I really hope this works out for them but I am nervous it won’t considering most streaming revenue is fixed and not immediately contingent on writing scripts.  I’ll cancel my Netflix subscription in solidarity.

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Most network television shows have already finished filming their current seasons so this most likely won't affect them unless this proceeds into July-ish for some reason.

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Good, more power to them!

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Omg I remember when this happened in 07/08 and it’s affected so many shows me and my siblings used to watch.

The amount of incredible shows it had an impact on as well like Heroes, Pushing Daisies, My Name Is Earl, Ugly Betty 

 

Time to pay up :clap3:

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There is money to pay the writers, and honestly, their demands are not that far-fetched

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Sucks for the writers... but I'm intrigued to see what it will do for American daytime. Last time this happened in 2008 we got some amazing changes that ultimately should have stuck. Hoping it happens again.

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Saurrrr… will this effect drag race? Mama should be shooting a new season any day now :sorry:

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Writers not getting royalties from streaming is mind-boggling 

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With AI being so advanced right now, it will be interesting to see the outcome of this 

 

Worst case scenario Studios move on without them would be tragic :skull:

 

But I really don’t think AI will ever replace human creativity.

 

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16 minutes ago, Rigalo said:

Saurrrr… will this effect drag race? Mama should be shooting a new season any day now :sorry:

I wouldn't worry, they can just type the cast into the DR simulator and we won't even notice there was a strike

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27 minutes ago, livelikemusic said:

Sucks for the writers... but I'm intrigued to see what it will do for American daytime. Last time this happened in 2008 we got some amazing changes that ultimately should have stuck. Hoping it happens again.

Days of our Lives films six month in advance and has scripts banked for 4 months.

 

General Hospital, The Young and the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful film 3-6 weeks ahead. Their writing teams have been banking scripts in advance. Y&R’s head writer is a scab who fired his breakdown writers so he’ll continue writing scripts while the other writers are out fighting for his rights. 

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Good.

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The ammount of iconic shows this ruined the first time it happened :rip: 

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6 hours ago, May said:

yes it happened years ago and TV suffered majorly because of it

 

Lost had its worst and shortest season because of it

Season 4 was definitely not its worst season :rip:

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1 hour ago, Ryan said:

Days of our Lives films six month in advance and has scripts banked for 4 months.

 

General Hospital, The Young and the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful film 3-6 weeks ahead. Their writing teams have been banking scripts in advance. Y&R’s head writer is a scab who fired his breakdown writers so he’ll continue writing scripts while the other writers are out fighting for his rights. 

General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful will either benefit from this or really suffer. Days of Our Lives could stand taking some months off at this point, LOL, though, I do think a short-term fi-core writer could help shape things differently and put "the writer" in their place. As for Josh Griffith... he's a hack handling 10+ jobs, and it's disgusting.

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53 minutes ago, livelikemusic said:

General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful will either benefit from this or really suffer. Days of Our Lives could stand taking some months off at this point, LOL, though, I do think a short-term fi-core writer could help shape things differently and put "the writer" in their place. As for Josh Griffith... he's a hack handling 10+ jobs, and it's disgusting.

:coffee2: Agree 100% with all of this. 

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The last time it gave us the best seasons of House and Lost so I won't complain but Pay the writers what they want

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3 hours ago, Broken said:

 

Good. The gall that some people suggested using A.I. is outlandish.

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We got the final seasons of Barry and Succession in the bag before this, so we kinda won.

 

I hope they get what they deserve though. Some of these actors get outrageous paychecks and they would be nothing without the writers - seems like it's time to rewrite that equation. 

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Transported back to 2008 when heroes storyline was ruined 😭😭😭

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8 hours ago, Sesame said:

Maybe it’s time to stop paying actors and celebrities exorbitant amounts of money for contributing arguably the same amount as anyone else on the set does 

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