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Earlier this week, reports surfaced that a number of major names (including George Clooney, Emma Stone, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry & Scarlett Johansson) met with SAG-AFTRA leadership (including Fran Drescher and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland) to discuss the state of the strike and what could be done to quicken a deal between the actors' union and the[...]

If the AMPTP thought that walking away from the table would be some kind of "power move" on the part of the studios & streamers in its negotiations with SAG-AFTRA, the entertainment industry's union served it a reality check earlier today In a move that can best be compared to struck company Disney's Marvel Studios[...]

Want to know one of the key signs that Wednesday's meeting between SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP didn't go too well? It's when the folks inside of the room start talking publically (and on the record), offering their perspectives on why things went south During Bloomberg's Screentime event, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos did just that Saying that[...]

Late on Wednesday, we learned that talks between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP took a nose dive – reportedly over AI and streaming residuals – with talks between the two suspended at this time "Negotiations between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA have been suspended after SAG-AFTRA presented its most recent proposal on October 11," began the statement[...]

Not long after the WGA confirmed that its union membership had ratified its new three-year deal with a 99% in-favor vote, SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP released a statement announcing that negotiations on a new contract for the actors' union had wrapped for the day A new meeting is set again for this Wednesday – with[...]

A little more than two weeks after the WGA and AMPTP had reached a tentative agreement – putting an end to the writers' strike after 148 days – the union membership overwhelmingly ratified the agreement With 8,525 members voting, 99% of those who voted confirmed the new deal (8,435 voting in favor and 90 members[...]

From there, the weekend will see "parties working internally" before talks resume again on Monday, October 9th (the same day that the WGA is expected to overwhelmingly ratify its new three-year deal with the AMPTP) "SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP met for a full day bargaining session and have concluded Negotiations will continue on Friday, October[...]

While there are a large number of fingers, toes, and various other body parts crossed across the entertainment industry in the hope that SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP's talks this week will result in a tentative agreement, there's still the matter of awards season to contend with And with the SAG Awards set to stream on[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? SAG-AFTRA/AMPTP, Disney+'s Loki, Prime Video's Gen V, Apple TV+'s Messi Meets America, USA Network's WWE Raw/WWE NXT, Max's Peacemaker, STARZ's Shining Vale, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher, FX's Fargo, HBO's Last Week Tonight, Paramount+'s Frasier, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Lower Decks, AEW/Adam Copeland, Netflix's One[...]

On the same day that ratification ballots went out to WGA members to finalize their new three-year deal, SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP met today at the union's headquarters to begin negotiations in earnest As was the case with the WGA talks, Disney CEO Bob Iger, NBCUniversal CCO Donna Langley, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, and Warner[...]

After reaching a deal with the WGA last month that ended the writers' strike, the AMPTP is heading to SAG-AFTRA's headquarters today to begin negotiations in earnest Hopefully, by the end of the week, the studios & streamers will see the error of their ways and do right by the actors' union as it apparently[...]

With being off the air for five months, there were clearly a ton of topics to be covered – but the most obvious one, right out of the gate, was clearly the strike and the union's ability to get what appears to be a pretty sweet deal out of the AMPTP (with SAG-AFTRA negotiations beginning[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Adam Copeland/Edge & AEW WrestleDream, Sir Patrick Stewart, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Crunchyroll's Jujutsu Kaisen, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, SAG-AFTRA/AMPTP, FXX's Archer, New York Comic Con 2023, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, BBC's Doctor Who, Netflix' The Umbrella Academy, Max's Doom Patrol, Leslie Jones/SNL, Peppa Pig/Katy Perry, Apple TV+'s For All Mankind, and more! Images/Screencaps:[...]

With the WGA membership expected to ratify a new three-year deal this week, the spotlight turns to SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP – with both sides set to meet this Monday at the union's Miracle Mile headquarters at SAG-AFTRA Plaza (not at the AMPTP's headquarters, as was the case the WGA talks) While many assume that[...]

Facing the fallout from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA striking at the same time (because of wasted negotiating time on the AMPTP's part), the television & film side of things had to be dialed back dramatically – in many instances, panels shifted to screenings with teaser, trailers, and behind-the-scenes featurettes (filmed before the strikes began) released[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? BBC's Doctor Who, Disney+'s Ahsoka, Prime Video's Gen V, TBS' AEW Dynamite, SAG-AFTRA/WGA/AMPTP, Max's Peacemaker, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Netflix's The Sandman, Prime Video's Good Omens 3, Marvel Studios' The Marvels, Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher, NBC's Quantum Leap, Netflix's Arrested Development, HBO's Last Week Tonight, Netflix's Alice in Borderland, Adult Swim's[...]

But that's just the first step, with the WGA also rallying with SAG-AFTRA as the actors' union prepares to meet with the AMPTP this Monday to hammer out their own deal But that doesn't mean that the union can't take a moment to celebrate the gains it made – and how it made them Because[...]

Well, we already know that there's going to be one big difference between the AMPTP's negotiations with the WGA and the upcoming start of its negotiations with SAG-AFTRA Less than a day after both sides confirmed in a joint statement that they would be meeting on Monday, October 2nd, Deadline Hollywood has confirmed that the[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? SAG-AFTRA/AMPTP, Dan Harmon & Justin Roiland, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Community, Showtime's The Curse, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Netflix's Blue Eye Samurai, Prime Video's Gen V, James Gunn/DCU, HBO's True Detective: Night Country, Star Trek: very Short Treks, Netflix's Castlevania: Nocturne, Netflix's Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revolution,[...]

In what we're hoping is a good sign of things to come, some promising news from SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP this evening, On the same day that the writers' strike officially as WGA members prepare to vote to ratify a new agreement next week, the actors' union and the studios & streamers have confirmed that[...]

After five months, which were at least four months longer than it needed to be, the WGA has reached an agreement with the AMPTP (Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers) that pretty much gave the writers what they were asking for Unlike the end of the 2008 WGA strike, where the membership voting for[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WGA/AMPTP/SAG-AFTRA, CollegeHumor/Dropout, AEW/Warner Bros Discovery, Community/Chevy Chase, Brooke Hogan/Hulk Hogan, FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Apple TV+'s The Enfield Poltergeist, Max's Creature Commandos, Hulu & Moonlighting, Prime Video's Gen V, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, WWE/Jade Cargill, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Howard Stern/Bill Maher, BBC's Time, ESPN's ManningCast, FOX's Bob's Burgers, and more! Images/Screencaps:[...]

The WGA announced that the writers' strike will end at 12:01 am PT on Wendesday, September 27th - and released details on the new deal.

As the WGA moves forward on potentially ratifying its tentative agreement with the AMPTP that was announced on Sunday, the spotlight has shifted to talks between the studios & streamers and SAG-AFTRA But where there had been some weeks of rollercoaster emotions between the writers' union and the AMPTP, at least both sides were communicating[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WGA/AMPTP, Crunchyroll's Jujutsu Kaisen, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, FX's Justified, Prime Video's The Boys/Gen V, Usher/NFL Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show, NBC's Found, and more! Images/Screencaps: FX Networks, Adult Swim, Prime Video, WGA, AMPTP, NBCUniversal, AMC Networks BCTV Daily Dispatch: WGA/AMPTP, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon,[...]

Not long after the WGA announced that it had reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP on a new three-year contract (pending final language and membership ratification), SAG-AFTRA posted a message congratulating the union on today's news while reaffirming its commitment to get the best deal for its members "SAG-AFTRA congratulates the WGA on reaching[...]

Thought the language still needs to be finalized, the WGA notified its membership this evening that a tentative agreement has been reached between the writers' union and the AMPTP "We have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2023 MBA, which is to say an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WGA/AMPTP, NBC's Quantum Leap, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, TBS's AEW Collision, Howard Stern/Bill Maher/Donald Trump, FXX's Archer, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Spartacus/Conan, TNT's AEW Rampage, Hulu's Futurama, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard, Crunchyroll/Right Stuf, Wonder Woman/Kari Lake, and more! Images/Screencaps: BBC, WGA, AMPTP, ABC's[...]

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) released a joint statement confirming that both sides will meet again on Sunday "The WGA and AMPTP met for bargaining on Saturday and will meet again on Sunday," the WGA Negotiating Committee wrote in a message to its membership[...]

Earlier today, reports grew across the entertainment media landscape that a deal between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to end the five-month-long writers' strike could be nearing completion, with legal representatives reportedly said to be working on the fine print for a tentative agreement[...]