✍🏻 WGA Rejection...Trekkies
✍🏼 Writer’s Quotes to Live By
“IF THE SCENE BORES YOU WHEN YOU READ IT, REST ASSURED IT WILL BORE THE ACTORS, AND WILL, THEN, BORE THE AUDIENCE, AND WE’RE ALL GOING TO BE BACK IN THE BREADLINE.”
― David Mamet
✍🏼 Writers Guild Missteps in Negotiations
It seems the Writers Guild (WGA) is lifting the veil for new offers to the Association of Talent Agents (ATA). The offer is a band-aid solution to the problem of packaging fees. The proposal would allow the continuation of packaging fees on films and TV shows for one more year before switching over to a 10% commission model – a business model that hasn’t existed in decades.
In conclusion the gravy train has ended: YOU GOT ONE YEAR TO WRAP IT UP!
The WGA last week had declared an impasse in the negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents, and offered to meet separately with the nine biggest agencies — all of whom refused to meet with the guild.
“The guild remains determined to move the negotiation process forward,” the WGA negotiating committee told the guild’s members tonight. “Therefore, today we sent a new proposal to each formerly-franchised agency and reiterated our offer to meet to discuss any concerns they might have. The new proposal has significant changes from the last formal proposal they received.
The Association of Talent Agents has either ignored, or just flat-out rejected this notion, so we’ll see how this saga continues!
You can check out the new proposal here.
✍🏼One Day At A Time Finds a New Home
Netflix recently cancelled Norman Lear, a writer who’s had immense television series success, latest series “One Day At A Time. Lear, has created and written for television since the 1950’s! Lear’s name is synonymous with being an icon in tv.
Pop TV, the cable home of Schitt’s Creek, has picked up the beloved TV series One Day at a Time for a fourth season.
A brand new 13-episode season will debut on the channel sometime in 2020. This marks the first time a series has been picked up by cable networks from a streaming network.
The series stars Rita Moreno, Justina Machado, Isabella Gomez, Todd Grinnell, Marcel Ruiz, also Stephen Tobolowsky and are all signed on to return.
✍🏼Michael Chabon Official Showrunner of ‘Picard’
Trekkies have a reason to be nostalgic with the announcement of Star Trek: Picard. This series would follow Captain Jean-Luc Picard AFTER the events of The Next Generation and its several film spin-offs. Iconic sci-fi actor Patrick Stewart is returning to the iconic role he originated on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
With writer Michael Chabon being named the official showrunner of the CBS All Access series, he is beyond excited to take over such an influential character stating: “Star Trek has been an important part of my way of thinking about the world, the future, human nature, storytelling and myself since I was ten years old,” Chabon said. “I come to work every day in a state of joy and awe at having been entrusted with the character and the world of Jean-Luc Picard, with this vibrant strand of the rich, intricate and complex tapestry that is Trek.”
“I feel I’m ready to return to [the character] to research and experience what comforting and reforming light he might shine on these often very dark times,” Patrick Stewart said when the show was first announced.
In addition to Stewart, Picard features Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Harry Treadaway. Stewart, Kurtzman, Xhabon, Akiva Goldsman, James Duff, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth all serve as executive producers.
Star Trek: Discovery should tide you over until Star Trek: Picard will premiere on CBS All Access later this year.
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