Their fate is a lot less certain than it was before Friday. Meanwhile, producers who banked extra episodes for next season in the event of a strike now find themselves ahead of schedule. We like to have options of when we produce which scripts. The longer you have, the better the product. The unintended benefit for us is it forced a new discipline into work habits.
People are tired but feel really good.
If the Screen Actors Guild doesn't make a deal when its talks begin with producers later this month, the networks will still need their stockpiles. But as of Friday, most execs were optimistic there won't be an actors strike this summer, and they were already starting to plan how to spread out all the additional programming they now have in their hoppers. The immediate impact of the settlement will be felt next week, when network execs head to New York to trot out their fall wares for ad buyers. That's good news, since the backup scheduled would have surely drawn far less coin from Madison Avenue. All rights reserved.