From mini-rooms to overall deals to AI technology.
Before network shows, it would be soap operas. The strike 15 years ago was in the middle of the season, but this is the end of the network season, so we won’t see network shows going dark immediately. But if the strike lasts long enough, it’ll delay the start of the fall season. Normally, network writers’ rooms for September would begin staffing now and would be fully staffed in June or July because it is a September-to-May business.
I’m curious about how concerns around AI are affecting negotiations. According to the WGA, the AMPTP rejected its proposal to regulate AI use on projects, instead suggesting they meet annually to “discuss advancements in technology.” How does prospective technology fit into this puzzle? It means more competition for the writers. It means that they’re in competition internationally and that the bonds the Writers Guild has built with foreign writers’ guilds through an organization called the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds are absolutely critical because you want to have as many foreign writers as possible supporting the strike. Not just with words of affirmation but also by walking away from potential jobs.
We also will see a somewhat newer player, which is foreign-produced content. Netflix in particular has pioneered something that people in the past thought would never happen, which is getting Americans other than people who watch PBS or go to art-house movies to watch foreign content. Foreign content was a niche business once upon a time, but not since.
If you’re going to spend billions of dollars building out global platforms based on content we create, we need to get our fair share of that, and we need to ensure that writing is a sustainable career. The Guild wants to reverse the trend toward mini-rooms, and the objection is severalfold. One is that fewer writers are staffed. The second is that those writers don’t work for as long as writers do in more conventional writing rooms. The third is that the pay structure tends to be lower. The fourth is that many mini-rooms close before the series even begins production.
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