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It’s official: Writers Guild members at the Sesame Workshop have got a new contract. The writers “overwhelmingly” approved the five-year collective bargaining agreement, the guild announced on Friday. Sesame Workshop writers reached a tentative deal in April, but not before unanimously voting to…

UPDATED, 4:53 PM: Writers Guild members at Sesame Workshop have reached a tentative deal with management to avoid a threatened strike. A ratification vote on the new five-year collective bargaining agreement will be held in the coming days. The WGA said its 35 Sesame Workshop writers won “historic&#8221…

The writers of MTV’s Ridiculousness have officially bargained their first contract. After the writers voted to organize under the Writers Guild of America West last year, the union announced Wednesday that they had achieved a deal covering all writing staff including creative consultants, supervising…

The David Hemingson-scripted Alexander Payne dramedy The Holdovers and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction were the big film winners at the strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards, which were handed out Sunday in Los Angeles and New York. Jefferson — who also was honored with the WGA West’s Paul Selvi…

SAG-AFTRA, IATSE the WGA, and the DGA have united behind a legislative move to put up some new and slightly punitive guardrails around Artificial Intelligence. "Everything generated by AI ultimately originates from a human creative source, says Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA National Executive…

A frequent target of harsh Republican attacks, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)  is putting up the digital barricades for his reelection campaign. On the ballot in November like every member of the House of Representatives, the six-term California Congressman has teamed up with the technology services of…

Hollywood and other industries are still grappling with how to integrate AI into their workflow, but the Biden administration today started putting up concrete guardrails around the technology that could literally change everything. "When government agencies use AI tools we will now require them to…

The WGA has written a new role for Niecy Nash-Betts: host of its strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards in Los Angeles next month. The Emmy winner for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story will emcee the West Coast ceremony on April 14 at the Hollywood Palladium. “A good writer is an actors'…

Governor Gavin Newsom and politicians in Sacramento may still have a long way to go to conquering California’s budget deficit, but they now finally have the go-ahead from voters to get $6.4 billion to revamp the state’s busted mental health system and combat homelessness. Almost two weeks after Golde…

Back at the bargaining table with the studios this week after several days of caucusing, IATSE on Tuesday laid out its plans for the next phase of talks as a contract-expiration date inched closer for a tense Hollywood. "Following a caucus week, negotiations between the International Alliance of…

Netflix has struck a deal with the Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) over live-action scripted series for the first time. The first-of-its-kind deal also sees the global streamer tie with the Personal Managers Association, which represents UK agents. The deal came into place on February 1…

In many ways, longtime International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees president Matthew Loeb is the personification of that Teddy Roosevelt adage of "speak softly, and carry a big stick" …well, maybe except for the speak softly part. "From where I sit, this is really about security in an…