In the States, the five months-longer writers’ strike is over, and those talented folk who pen scripts for TV shows and movies are back at work.
The disruption ran from May to September, the most prolonged and largest interruption since 2020’s Covid, dwarfing the 2007 to 2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
Actors, dancers and stunt people are still on strike. We’re not all back yet.
The WGA wanted a higher minimum wage for writers, especially those writing for streaming content, and they wanted a fairer slice of the revenue from successes.
The Guild also wanted improved pensions and health (important in the States, uniquely so in the world) and better protections for those who speak up when there are problems with employers.
The actors, represented by SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), also have concerns about AI, the increasing use of nudity and simulated sex and the lack of diversity.
JustWatch has crunched the numbers, assigning the percentage of delays to the different platforms that had to reschedule shows.
The JustWatch data shows Netflix suffered about a third of all delays, thrice as much as Apple TV+ and much more than HBOMax, Prime Video and Disney+.
Hulu was much less affected than the others, but perhaps that service had fewer new shows than Netflix.
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