WGA Sets Contract Negotiating Committee As Potential Writers Strike Looms

Starz has set the return of the Flenory Brothers in BMF‘s second season on Friday, January 6 at midnight via the network’s app, followed by its linear debut at 8 p.m. ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada. A first look action-packed trailer for the drama series can be found above.

On the party circuit during Emmy weekend, one topic inevitably found its way into every conversation, the possibility of a writers strike. Even back in September, the consensus was that there likely will be a strike.

Netflix has slotted January 12 for the Season 2 premiere of Vikings: Valhalla and has released some first-look photos of the upcoming sophomore season, which you can see above and below.

DGA leaders have told their members that the guild’s upcoming contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers “will not be an ordinary negotiation” and that “if necessary, we are prepared for a fight.”

The Audacy-owned podcast network Pineapple Street Studios formally has recognized the WGA East as the collective bargaining reps for its staff writers, producers, editors, engineers and other storytellers. The move comes after a card check conducted by an independent third party confirmed that a majority of the 42-member bargaining unit signed union cards in favor of the union.

WGA East members employed at New York City’s news and talk radio station 1010 WINS have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three-year contract. The vote was 29-1 in favor of accepting the deal, which includes minimum salary raises of 3% in the first year and 2.25% in the second and third years.

Staffers at the Bustle Digital Group represented by the WGA East are decrying the layoffs of 21 of their part-time colleagues. BDG voluntarily recognized the guild as the staffers’ bargaining representative two years ago, but the two sides have been unable to come to terms for a first-time contract.

Fox unveiled its upcoming winter 2023 premiere dates for new and returning series including the anticipated courtroom anthology Accused, which will debut in January.

Another day, another red carpet! Celebrities, artists, designers and philanthropists showcased their best style at the WSJ. Magazine 2022 Innovator Awards.

The nine-episode first season of the HBO Original drama series The Last of Us debuts Sunday, January 15 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream in 4K on HBO Max.

“The committee is in discussions with President Trump’s attorneys and he has an obligation to comply” by this Friday, January 6 Committee Vice Chair Cheney told PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff today of the Congressional group’s recent subpoena of of the former president.

A federal judge’s ruling that blocked a $2.18 billion merger between book publishing giants Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is being hailed by the WGA West as a “tremendous victory for authors who, like screen and television writers, try to make a living selling their work to powerful conglomerates.”

SAG-AFTRA and the WGA East, which together represent thousands of broadcast and digital reporters, say they’re “deeply distressed” by a federal judge’s ruling that would allow Starbucks to subpoena a wide range of communications between workers seeking to unionize and journalists reporting on their organizing efforts.