Geoff Bennett:
And, Sal, you work in late-night. That's a high-pressure job, long hours. You have to be funny every day. You can't necessarily wait for the muse to strike.
How have the changes in the industry that Jeane is talking about, how has that affected the work that you and your colleagues do?
Sal Gentile, Member, Writers Guild of America: Well, so I'm incredibly, lucky because my show is on a broadcast network. And so we benefit from protections that the Guild has fought for and collectively bargained for over many years.
We benefit from protections such as minimum pay and residuals for the reuse of our material. And that makes it possible for writers to have a livable career and to go from project to project.
And the fear is that, because we all know streaming is here, and not only is it here, but it will continue to be the future, that will go away for all writers across the Guild, but especially in particularly for late-night and comedy variety writers, because the studios have essentially proposed taking all of those protections for late-night writers and comedy variety writers away.
And, as you mentioned, it's a high-pressure job. You have to respond to the news every single day and write jokes about the news every single day. And it's really hard to do that without the security, at least some minimum level of guarantee about what your contract is going to say. And the studios would like, in the future, if these shows are exclusively on streaming, to pay writers, not a minimum, not the residuals, but to pay a day rate, which would not make it a sustainable career for anybody.
And so, because I love the type of writing I do, I love late-night writing, I love writing jokes about the news, I want to — I want to make sure it remains a sustainable career, both for myself and my colleagues and for people who come after us, because there's going to be plenty more insane news for the shows to make fun of.
"Hollywood" - Google News
May 19, 2023 at 05:30AM
https://ift.tt/vEOs2w7
Actors' union threatens to strike alongside writers - PBS NewsHour
"Hollywood" - Google News
https://ift.tt/bT0x4Ck
Shoes Man Tutorial
Pos News Update
Meme Update
Korean Entertainment News
Japan News Update
Bagikan Berita Ini
0 Response to "Actors' union threatens to strike alongside writers - PBS NewsHour"
Post a Comment