It’s official: the Writers Guild of America (WGA) kept its word this Tuesday, May 2, and its members – many of the most prominent creatives in the Hollywood industry – stop work. For this reason, several series will be affected by the recent Hollywood writers’ strike.
Some of the writers of the most renowned productions of the moment, went to social networks to announce their support for this strike. Here we bring you the count of the shows whose development would be complicated for this fact.
Why did Hollywood writers go on strike?
Some of the main demands of the Writers Guild of America is that they consider the residual payment that certain productions give to scriptwriters unfair. The residuals are the profits that a series or a movie generates each time a TV channel or a streaming platform broadcasts it when you acquire the broadcast rights.
The anger? With the streaming market booming, it has been seen that the residual profits of certain contents are lower for the writing teams. And that is just one of the many details that are handled within the recent demonstration.
Here we explain the whole matter in more detail. Let’s go now to the count of series affected by the Hollywood writers’ strike that officially began on Tuesday, May 2.
The series affected by the Hollywood writers’ strike
Cobra Kai
That’s how it is… Cobra Kai is one of the series affected by the Hollywood writers strike. Jon Hurwitz, co-creator of the series, reported on Twitter that “There are no writers on set” filming season 6.
“We hate to strike, but if we must strike, we strike forcefully. Pencils downstairs in the Cobra Kai writers room… The moment a fair deal is settled, we’ll be back to kicking ass…“Hurwitz wrote. Season 5 of the series recently premiered in 2022.
Yellowjackets
Definitely, Yellowjackets It is one of the most interesting series of the moment, especially with the recent premiere of season 2 in this 2023. However, the writing process for the third batch of chapters was halted, making it one of the series affected by the Hollywood writers’ strike.
The show’s co-creator, Ashley Lyle, also took to Twitter to release a statement about the work stoppage. “We had a day in the Yellowjackets season 3 writers room… It was amazing, creatively invigorating and so much fun, and I’m very excited to be back at it as soon as the Union gets a fair deal.“he mentioned.
‘Abbott Elementary’
Precisely, the writing work for the third season of Abbott Elementary It would start this Tuesday, May 2. However, by not resolving the WGA’s lawsuits with the Hollywood Producers Alliancewriter Brittany Nichols mentioned in an interview with Democracy Now that the strike would affect the number of episodes in the third batch of episodes.
“If this strike goes on for any significant period of time, our show won’t premiere on time and that could change the number of episodes.”Nichols said.
Is ‘House of the Dragon’ one of the series affected by the Hollywood writers’ strike?
As Variety mentions, the filming of the second season of House of the Dragon will continue with the ongoing writers’ strike. The scripts for this installment were already finished prior to the WGA demonstration; the story would be different if the writing job was active right now (and even when the HBO series is filming in the UK).
Of course, here is a detail that is not very clear. If in the process of production and recording it is necessary to do a rewrite of the script on the fly, Should they stop said rewriting if the strike is still active? Here’s the unknown. Here our interview with part of the cast for the first season.
And what’s up with the late-night talk shows?
In addition to the series affected by the Hollywood writers’ strike, late-night talk shows will also find it difficult. In fact, as The Hollywood Reporter points outThese types of programs were the first to be directly affected by the strike.
Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon y Late Night With Seth Meyers are the shows that will not see new episodes these days. Saturday Night Live also for work and will be broadcasting repeated programs on the weekend.
We will keep you updated with the series and other productions that could be affected by the Hollywood writers’ strike, as more details are revealed.
