WGA West blasts Warner Bros Discovery; mass cancellations of completed seasons of TV series; and more
As it prepares for negotiations for a new film and TV contract – and a possible writers strike in May – the WGA West is once again blasting Warner Bros Discovery. The charge: going back on its promise that the merger that created the giant media conglomerate last year would create more opportunities for content creators.
“WarnerMedia and Discovery promised that their merger would allow the new company to invest in more original content and create more opportunity for underrepresented storytellers,” the guild said in a statement Monday. “Less than one year after the merger’s close, Warner Bros Discovery has laid off hundreds of workers and canceled, pulled, or written off $2 billion in content, spotlighting the predictable harms of consolidation.”?
WBD responded later Monday, not commenting on the merger, but saying it is “committed to facilitating greater inclusion of underrepresented groups in larger numbers both in front of and behind the camera.”
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It has all the makings of a new and disturbing trend in television — companies taking fully produced, unaired series and moving them off their books — but insiders are hesitant to say whether cancellations like what we saw Monday at Showtime, as well as what has happened at Warner Bros. Discovery, AMC, Netflix and Peacock over the last few months, is becoming the new normal.
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2 年I'm fed up as well with Paramount Global, which nobody seems to have figured out is outsourcing their creative positions to international HUBS for production. Producers in the US are being cut out of US TV projects in favor of a low paid Colombian, Argentinian or UK producer. Paramount HUBS are all about cheap labor and it should be in the headlines as well.
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2 年Creatives are fed up! In the business of entertainment, the product is original content and you can’t have that without creatives.