Film and Television writers across the nation have downed their tools — pens, laptops, even Post-it notes.
The Writers Guild of America’s previous contract with the AMPTP expired at midnight on May 1.
Due to disputes over pay, the size of writers rooms, the use of artificial intelligence, and other issues, negotiations for a new deal failed to resolve in time, and the writers have been on strike since May 1.If you don’t watch late-night shows like “The Tonight Show” or “Saturday Night Live” (which have gone dark in the absence of writing teams), you might not have been personally affected by the writers strike yet.
For moviegoers and TV viewers the impact will come later: in shortened seasons, botched storylines, and bad films shot using bare bones scripts.
But studios are feeling the pain right now, with productions suspended and others forced to shut down filming as WGA picket lines form outside.
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