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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[...]

Reports are that a deal between the WGA and the AMPTP to end the five-month-long writers' strike might be near completion, with reports that legal representatives are said to be working on the fine print for a tentative agreement – one that is said to have come into play after the issues surrounding AI and[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, Audible's Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, WWE/Matt Riddle, TNT's AEW Rampage, Netflix's The Fall Of The House Of Usher, FOX's WWE SmackDown, Netflix's One Piece, Russell Brand, Angelica Ross/Emma Roberts, Hulu's Futurama, Lazarus, Disney+'s Loki, Soldier Boy/Gen V, Cartoon Network's Teen Titans GO!, BBC's Doctor Who,[...]

Despite growing rumblings that today could be the day that the WGA and AMPTP reached a tentative agreement that would eventually lead to a new contract, Friday's negotiations between the two sides ended without a deal That said, on the optimistic side? Sources say that today was another day where the WGA and AMPTP made[...]

Discovery) joined AMPTP chief Carol Lombardini in a meeting with Ellen Stutzman, David Goodman & Chris Keyser-led WGA Negotiating Committee to hammer out a new deal that would end the now 144-day-old writers' strike Though a final deal has yet to be reached, sources reported that today's extended negotiating session saw both sides building upon[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Dimension 20, WGA/AMPTP, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Disney+'s Ahsoka, TBS' AEW Dynamite, AHS: Angelica Ross/Emma Roberts, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, Prime Video's Gen V, Star Trek: very Short Treks, Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, Netflix's Onimusha, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, BBC's Doctor[...]

Discovery) would be joining today's meeting between the WGA and the AMPTP – a move seen by some as an example of the studios & streamers beginning to realize the true financial urgency of the situation for all parties involved Now, the WGA & AMPTP have released a joint statement: "The WGA and AMPTP met[...]

"The WGA and AMPTP now have a confirmed schedule to bargain this week, starting on Wednesday You might not hear from us in the coming days while we are negotiating but know that our focus is getting a fair deal for writers as soon as possible We'll reach out again when there is something of[...]

As the AMPTP continues to fend off reports that there is serious dissension among its members (more on that in a minute) and the WGA having to take on a number of daytime talk shows (and HBO late-night host Bill Maher's) efforts to resume filming amid the ongoing writers' strike, it was confirmed earlier today[...]

Drew Barrymore took to social media today to announce that The Drew Barrymore Show will not return until after the WGA strike is resolved.

So it looks like the AMPTP and the WGA will be getting back to the negotiating table to knock out a new deal – next week But considering how things have gone over the past week or so (reports of dissension among AMPTP members and daytime talk shows returning despite the writers' strike), any good[...]

Reports are that The Talk, The Jennifer Hudson Show, and Sherri are all set to resume tapings amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Disney+'s Ahsoka, FX's Justified, Star Trek Day/SAG-AFTRA & WGA, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Ashton Kutcher/Mila Kunis, Paramount+'s Criminal Minds, FXX's Archer, Cody Rhodes, Amazon's The Boys, WGA/AMPTP, Our "Cancelled DC Elseworlds" Bundle, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard, and more! Images/Screencaps: Disney+, Paramount+, FX Networks, Prime Video, WGA, AMPTP, AMC Networks, Instagram BCTV[...]

We have two big updates to pass along regarding the ongoing SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes and the AMPTP's inability to broker a deal that works for the unions What will be interesting to see is if the two could be part of a bigger shift in the current narrative As SAG-AFTRA's voting members showed their[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Star Trek/Jeri Ryan, WGA/AMPTP, Disney+'s Loki, TNT's AEW Rampage, That '70s Show, Smosh's All Things Sword AF, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, Star Trek: very Short Treks, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, Cartoon Network's Totally Spies!, Hulu's Futurama, Max's Doom Patrol, Apple TV+'s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, BBC's Doctor Who, Prime[...]

When the news hit that AMC Networks has reached an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA to continue work on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 2, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire Season 2, we wondered who would be next to step up and break from the AMPTP[...]

Who do you think Maher saved his more condescending comments for? The AMPTP… which represents Warner Bros Discovery… which owns HBO… which has Maher under what we're assuming is a pretty sweet contract through 2024? Or the writers? Spoiler? That first writers' meeting back is going to be really awkward… Image: WGA, HBO Screencap With actor/comedian Jim[...]

And when will that end? When the AMPTP gets its act together and negotiates a respectful deal with the unions – or studios start breaking off to strike their own deals. SAG-AFTRA/WA (Image: SAG-AFTRA/WGA) SAG-AFTRA SAG-AFTRA SAG-AFTRA Now, we have a look at what SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher has to share with her membership via a heartfelt,[...]

It kicked down the door, cleared out a hallway filled with "walkers," and cleared a path to SAG-AFTRA for any AMPTP studio that wants it known that maybe folks like Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Disney CEO Bob Iger don't necessarily speak for them when it comes to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA & WGA[...]

Their mission? Get the AMPTP to return to the negotiating tables and offer fair deals to the creative community that creates the content that makes them a ton of green Yesterday, Jensen Ackles put the word out to the fans to support the effort, while Jared Padalecki & Genevieve Padalecki posted their support earlier today[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Cartoon Network's Tiny Toons Looniversity, Amazon's The Wheel of Time, Netflix's Obliterated, TBS' AEW Dynamite, Marvel Studios' The Marvels, Spotify's Strike Force Five, AMPTP/SAG-AFTRA/WGA, Netflix's Disenchantment, Hulu's The Great, Max's Our Flag Means Death, Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, NBC's Quantum Leap, Adult Swim's The Venture Bros., Paramount+'s Star[...]

A little more than a week after talks between the WGA and AMPTP took what can best be described as a turn for the worse, Deadline Hollywood is reporting exclusively that a meeting will be taking place today – just not between the two With rumblings growing of dissension within its ranks, the studios are[...]

The bad news? The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes are still rolling on – and based on what the AMPTP is bringing to the table, they don't appear to be ending anytime soon A silver lining of good news? We still have "professional journalist"/world-class comedian Triumph the Insult Comic Dog & handler Robert Smigel (Saturday Night Live,[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Netflix's One Piece, TBS' AEW Dynamite, The CW's Nancy Drew, Disney+'s Ahsoka, Bray Wyatt, HBO's The Last of Us, WGA/AMPTP, BBC's Doctor Who, ABC's Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hulu's Futurama, Freevee's Bosch: Legacy, Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, Peacock's The Continental, FX's Justified: City Primeval, Amazon's The[...]

A little more than a day after things apparently did not go well between the WGA and the AMPTP, the writers' union has messaged its membership with a more detailed breakdown of how Tuesday's meeting went. According to the WGA earlier this week, all of that "positivity" that hit the press shortly after talks ended was[...]

And a bad situation is what it sounds like we have coming out of Tuesday's negotiations between the WGA and the AMPTP According to the WGA, all of that "positivity" that hit the press shortly after talks ended was strictly a public relations move on the part of the studios & CEOs According to the[...]

Heading into the weekend, I think we can best say that we're at the "cautious optimism" to "well, at least they're still talking" stage when it comes to negotiations between the WGA and the AMPTP (which still isn't negotiating with SAG-AFTRA).  After meeting the previous four days – with the AMPTP reportedly responding to the[...]

According to sources, the ongoing SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes (exacerbated by the AMPTP's delay in returning to the negotiating table) and the production delays resulting from them created problems for the season from both a financial and scheduling standpoint. A League of Their Own is moving to series at Amazon (Image: Amazon Studios) The streaming series cast[...]

While we await some wisdom to settle upon the folks at the AMPTP, the SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes rage on – but that doesn't mean that all of that protesting and time spent on picket lines isn't having an impact In fact, the unions have had "professional journalist"/world-class comedian Triumph the Insult Comic Dog & handler[...]

But for this go-around, we're shifting the spotlight to the other side of the negotiating table (when there is one) – the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) With the strikes showing slow-to-little progress as of this writing, there's been a question that's been nagging at the back of our brains ever since[...]