DGA Talks Open Second Front in Labor Battle; Directors to Focus on Streaming Gains

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Los Angeles unions rallied on Friday evening in a show of support for the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike for the last four weeks. The unions — representing hotel workers, teachers and state employees — shared the stage across from Crypto.com Arena in downtown L.A. with representatives from the Hollywood guilds. “It’s going to be a hot labor summer,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, executive director of SAG-AFTRA. “Your fight is our fight. Our fight is your fight. We are all in this together.” SAG-AFTRA has called a strike authorization vote as it looks to gain leverage for its negotiations, which begin on June 7. The SAG-AFTRA contract expires on June 30.

Just weeks after announcing she’d called time on her relationship with long-term beau Dan Edgar, TOWIE star Amber Turner is said to be looking to a brighter future without him. A source close to the blonde bombshell, 29, this week revealed to OK! that seeing photos of her ex soaking up some sun with new love interest Hannah Rally has cemented the split for Amber, who is finally ready to move on. "It wasn’t that much of a surprise for Amber to see Dan pictured with another woman," they explained.

EXCLUSIVE: With the clock ticking and writers out on the picket lines all over town, the Directors Guild of America and the studios are far from even the framework of a deal.

Ten-man Livingston netted a late equaliser as they battled to a 1-1 draw with Motherwell in their final home game of the season.

Bre Tiesi is the new star of Selling Sunset and her relationship with Nick Cannon has been a big topic of conversation throughout the season.

TOWIE star Amber Turner is reportedly "terrified" that her ex Dan Edgar's new love interest will join the cast of the ITVBe show.The worries come after 29 year old Amber and 33 year old Dan went their separate ways earlier in May after being together since 2018. Amber and Dan may have been together for almost five years, but they have had a very up and down relationship with plenty of the drama playing out on the reality show.

Six By Nico is all set to open a second site in the city centre. The ‘affordable’ bistro chain will be opening up the new restaurant on the corner of John Dalton Street and Deansgate.

King Krule has shared another new song from his upcoming fourth studio album, Space Heavy. This latest track is titled "If Only It Was Warmth" and comes with a self-directed video in which Archy Marshall transports a cactus on a melancholy road trip.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA announced Wednesday that it will hold a strike authorization vote as it seeks to get its “ducks in a row” ahead of June 7 negotiations with the major studios. The vote does not mean that the performers’ union will necessarily join the Writers Guild of America on the picket lines after its contract expires on June 30. In a press release, the union said its negotiating committee decided that a strike authorization would provide “maximum bargaining leverage” for the talks. “We must get all our ducks in a row should the need present itself,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in the release. “The prospect of a strike is not a first option, but a last resort. As my dad always says, ‘Better to have and not need than to need and not have!’”

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Directors Guild of America is continuing its negotiations with the AMPTP, as companies hope to get a deal that could play a role in ending the two-week-old writers strike. Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America told members Monday that the guild is winning the “PR war” against the studios, as members share their stories in the media. “It seems the whole world is on our side,” wrote Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, a WGA East vice president, in an email to members titled “Our Momentum Grows.” “Members’ individual stories of our broken system — of getting by on ten weeks of work a year, of residual checks amounting to pennies — are resonating with the public. They understand we are losing out on the middle-class American Dream. We are not the elite. We are just like them. We are them.”

From the kitchen to spending time with family! Celebrity chef Judy Joo sat down with culinary icon Simon Kim to discuss his food, success and family traditions.

Viewers have been asking the same question during the Eurovision Song Contest, as singers Teya and Salena provided the the ultimate pop earworm with the catchy Who The Hell is Edgar? But who is Edgar?

K.J. Yossman ‘Lockwood & Co’ will not be renewed for a second season, Variety has learned. The supernatural detective series, which is based on Jonathan Stroud’s young adult novels of the same name, was developed by Joe Cornish under his Complete Fiction banner and debuted on Netflix in January of this year. It starred Ruby Stokes as Lucy Carlyle, a teenage ghost hunter with a tragic past, who teams up with Anthony Lockwood (played by Cameron Chapman) and George Karim (Ali Hadji-Heshmati) to form a ghost-busting agency that specializes in dealing with deadly ghouls. Variety understands that while Netflix was very pleased with the show, and especially the work that had gone into it, viewing numbers didn’t meet the threshold to greenlight a second season.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Negotiators for the Directors Guild of America on Tuesday gave a video preview of their upcoming talks with the studios, saying they are “fighting to receive our fair share of the new, global future.” The DGA begins its round of bargaining on Wednesday with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The guild is focused on rewriting the streaming residual formula to account for the growth in foreign subscribers. “The explosive popularity of streaming around the world has transformed how, and where, our work is viewed, and our contracts must adapt to changing production and distribution,” said Karen Gaviola, negotiations co-chair.

EXCLUSIVE: “This is about setting the course for the industry for the future,” said Directors Guild of America chief Lesli Linka Glatter today on the guild upcoming talks with studios and the WGA strike that stated this week. “We’re in a team sport. We’re only as good as our teams.”

The Only Way Is Essex's former power couple Amber Turner and Dan Edgar sent shockwaves through Brentwood this week when they announced they had split up after six years together. Initial rumours swirled online after fans noticed 32-year-old Dan had unfollowed Amber, 29, on Instagram. She then took to the social media platform to confirm the shock news.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer To a lot of people outside the negotiating room, a strike by Hollywood writers felt inevitable. But it didn’t feel that way inside the room. Until the last day or two, negotiators for both labor and management believed that the other side would give, and that a deal would be reached at the last moment. But picket lines in Los Angeles and New York this week tell a different story. The conflict that led to the breakdown of talks on the night of May 1 began the day before. On April 30, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers delivered a 40-page package of proposals to WGA’s negotiating committee. It did not include key elements that the Writers Guild of America has insisted are essential to sealing a new three-year contract, including a mandatory minimum number of weeks for TV writers and a minimum staff size for writers rooms.

The Only Way is Essex's Amber Turner and Dan Edgar have ended their relationship after a six year romance and it's certainly been a rocky few years for the pair. Despite the enduring length of their romance, the TOWIE stars were unable to make it work and in a statement on Tuesday, Amber confirmed the split following speculations. In a post on her Instagram story she wrote: "I wasn't going to post anything but due to speculations & questions, I feel like I need to.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Digital media and entertainment company NGLmitú, the result of a merger last year between NGL Collective and mitú, have launched the new Latino-focused streaming platform mitúTV. Targeting bilingual and English dominant U.S. Latinos, the service also announced three new shows: “Three Gs in a Pod,” hosted by Erik Rivera, Sasha Merci and Jesus Sepulveda; “Girl, Let Me Tell You,” hosted by Jessica Flores, Ivana Rojas and Glorelys Mora; and the game show “Spill the Chisme.” “We were more of a business-to-business type of organization,” said NGL Collective founder and CEO David Chitel, “which is why it made so much sense for us to merge with mitú, because they were the leading business-to-consumer entity connecting with we call ‘new generation Latinos.’ So the marriage of our two companies is sort of a big deal in our space.”

Teyana Taylor brings some color to the red carpet in a fun paint-splattered look for Gucci’s Meatpacking Boutique Grand Opening event in New York City on Saturday night (April 29).