DEAL!! WGA Strike Averted As Sides Agree On Tentative Film & TV Contract

[RandySF]

Hollywood has dodged a bullet. A threatened writers strike was averted early this morning when the WGA and management’s AMPTP reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year film and TV contract.

Details are still sketchy, but the agreement is expected to save the WGA’s ailing health plan and provide more money and protections for writers of short-order TV shows. The deal now goes to the WGA West’s board and the WGA East’s council for approval, and then to the guilds’ members for ratification.

The news comes after negotiations continued past the three-year film and TV contract’s midnight PT expiration. But sources on both sides said they were close on a new agreement, with the continuing talks proving “constructive.” By 12:45 AM, people inside and around the AMPTP’s Sherman Oaks offices were seen embracing and smiling.

“It was a hard night, but we knew it would be,” a source close to the studios told Deadline of the hours leading up to the early-morning deal.

An official announcement is expected shortly.


http://deadline.com/2017/05/wga-strike-averted-tentative-deal-film-tv-contract-amptp-1202081121/

[TeamPooka]

1. Guess I'm working tomorrow.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Embracing and smiling are hallmarks of good news!

I am glad to hear this.

[nycbos]

3. Good news. It is always nice to see pragmatism win in this day and age.

I guess both sides were aware that a strike would hurt everyone involved.

[Adrahil]

4. Thank Jeebus!!!

The last WGA strike killed some good shows. Hollywood needs to pay the freakin' talent BEHIND the camera too!

[Wounded Bear]

5. Good news!

The last strike gave us the proliferation of "reality" TV shows. Heaven knows what another one might have spawned.