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When you look at the AMPTP’s (non) response to WGA proposals, you see that the studios want to dismantle the WGA. How? 1/
For 70+ years, television was produced in assembly line fashion. A pilot was shot. A series ordered. A premiere date set for the fall the schedule. That meant DEADLINES 2/
With writing happening DURING production, studios *needed* a writers room to write scripts quickly 3/
Streaming has blown up that model. There is no fall schedule. There are no deadlines. What even is TV anymore? 4/
TV is now the movie business. I wrote a movie 5 years ago. It’s still in development. No one needs to make a movie. If it gets made, it’s a miracle. Studios have no deadline pressure to release a TV series 5/
So what does that mean for the WGA? In a future imagined by the studios, one writer can take time to write an 8 episode seasons. The studio will assess all the scripts before greenlighting production 6/
As the studios see it, there is no more need for a writers room. A streaming series is just an 8 hour movie. 7/
Studios want an industry that supported 10 writing jobs PER show to be reduced to 1 job. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s math. 8/
What do we lose? So much. The TV that we all love was created in the creative ferment of a writers room. TV brings diverse voices to life. If streamers reduce TV to one or two writers, it will homogenize the voices and characters we experience. 9/
This strike is about protecting TV writing as a cherished American art form that has existed separately from the movie business 10/ #wgastrong
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