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Looks like there won't be talks between SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP today after all, with negotiations reportedly rescheduled for Thursday after the actors' union took additional time to craft a response to the most recent proposals from the studios & streamers (never a bad thing) During Tuesday's meeting, the AMPTP presented a revised take on its[...]

Nearly two weeks after the studios & streamers "suspended" negotiations with the actors' union over a new three-year deal, the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA resumed talks on Tuesday Included in the discussions on the AMPTP side were Disney's Bob Iger, NBCUniversal's Donna Langley, Warner Bros Discovery's David Zaslav, Netflix's Ted Sarandos, and AMPTP President Carol Lombardini[...]

Not long after the actors' union and AMPTP announced in a joint statement that negotiations on a new three-year contract would resume on Tuesday, October 24th, at the union's headquarters, SAG-AFTRA released a statement to its membership, making it clear that it was the studios & streamers who "asked us to return to the table."[...]

After a rollercoaster week for the actors' union leading into this weekend's national convention, SAG-AFTRA released a joint statement with the AMPTP to announce that negotiations on a new three-year deal will resume at SAG-AFTRA Plaza on Tuesday, October 24th The statement also notes that "several executives from AMPTP member companies will be in attendance."[...]

SAG-AFTRA released a statement on Friday regarding its Halloween costume guidelines, which is getting some pushback from union members.

In a post earlier today, we discussed how SAG-AFTRA had been having a very "interesting" week on a number of fronts – including the actors' union posting Halloween costume guidelines to guarantee that members keep in compliance with strike deadlines by not dressing up as popular characters from any of the struck companies comprising the AMPTP[...]

Beyond donating extraordinary sums of money to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in support of members during the strike, these influential individuals have sought to offer suggestions, in particular with regard to our streaming sharing proposal and the AMPTP's characterization that we are asking for too much," read the statement from SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee – before[...]

Earlier today, SAG-AFTRA posted holiday guidelines to guarantee that members keep in compliance with strike deadlines by not dressing up as popular characters from any of the struck companies comprising the AMPTP and posting them on social media In fact, the union offered some options costume-wise – including how members can "choose costumes inspired by[...]

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:[...]