Inside ‘Fire Country’ Writers Room Restart Post-Strike: Scribes Talk WGA Wins, A “Shocking” Season 2 & More

Film and TV crew members and support staff have been hit hard by the double Hollywood strikes. The latest relief effort, announced last month, comes from Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman, Paul McCrane and Paul Scheer, who are spearheading a live fundraising event in partnership with The Union Solidarity Coalition.

EXCLUSIVE: Following the conclusion of the WGA strike, which has sent writers scrambling to either dive back into work or look for new opportunities, Roadmap Writers has reopened its free Support Staff Initiative, which helps get scripts from emerging talents in front of execs and literary reps.

The Drew Barrymore Show launched its fourth season Monday, and not a word was spoken about the strikes and controversy that has surrounded the show in recent weeks. Barrymore introduced her guest Shania Twain, saying to the audience, “Alright everybody, welcome to season four. Let’s go girls,” without comment about her return following the recently ended writers strike and ongoing actors strike.

The actors’ strike is still ongoing, but we’re learning which TV shows are being given priority by both Netflix and HBO once stars are allowed to return to work and begin filming again.

The NFL is serious about expanding the American version of football’s influence to the international market. So serious, it’s seriously thinking about a Super Bowl in London

“How do we justify losing half a season, half a year?”

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Shawn Ryan feels like he’s picked up in mid-sentence. The seasoned showrunner is back in his element, leading a writers room and juggling two series, Netflix’s “The Night Agent” and the final season of CBS’ high-octane police drama “S.W.A.T.” The end of the Writers Guild of America strike late last month unleashed a torrent of work for Ryan and his teams based at Sony Pictures Television. “Night Agent” was a little more than halfway done with writing for the 10 episodes for Season 2 when writers went pencils down on May 2.

Conan O’Brien is looking back at his days with The Simpsons.

Irish director Joe Lawlor said his film Baltimore – about heiress-turned-IRA mastermind Rose Dugdale – has modern connotations with groups such as Extinction Rebellion UK and Just Stop Oil who he suggests will become “more militant” in time.

The writers strike is over! The problems for Drew Barrymore may just be beginning…

Writers rooms are opening this week for Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television’s three Chicago dramas for NBC, three FBI dramas for CBS as well as NBC’s Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU.

Emily Longeretta Eight of Wolf Entertainment/Universal Television writers rooms are opening this week following the end of the writers strike. Additionally, two new showrunners have been named: “Chicago Fire” Season 12 will be run by Andrea Newman, formerly co-showrunner with Derek Haas; and “FBI: International” Season 3 will be run by executive producer Matt Olmstead.

Virgin River's fifth season , and we've been counting down the days until the holiday episodes start airing at the end of November to find out what will happen next. (Warning now: spoilers ahead).There's the question of Mel's biological father.

Jen Lilley is speaking out amid news that Days of Our Lives is recasting her, which was revealed to fans during the credits of Monday’s (October 2) episode.

Late-night is back and Late Night host Seth Meyers is teasing a bit of the first script post-strike. In an Instagram post Monday, Meyers gives us a peek of the script in a photo, which confirms his first target is, who else, but Donald Trump.

William Earl Bill Maher returned to the airwaves with HBO’s “Real Time” for the first time since the strike with only mild praise for the Writers Guild of America for settling the five-month strike. Season 21 of “Real Tiime with Bill Maher” became the first of TV’s prominent late-night talk shows to return to the airwaves after the conclusion of the 148-day work stoppage.

It’s staffing season in September. A number of new series picked up right before or during the writers strike are assembling their writers rooms. And, picking up where they left off, a number of writers rooms that were either shut down or delayed by the WGA strike in May are ramping back up and are expected to be up and running early next week.

Todd Haynes, who has appeared on behalf of his latest directing outing, May December, since its splashy debut in Cannes, turned to a new collaborator when promoting it at the New York Film Festival.

Thania Garcia Aerosmith has pushed their 2023 tour to next year after Steven Tyler suffered an injury that led to “bleeding vocal cords,” and has now been revealed to be “more serious than initially thought.” In a statement shared on social media, the band said Tyler’s doctor “he fractured his larynx which requires ongoing care,” adding that he is receiving the best medical treatment available “but given the nature of a fracture, he is being told patience is essential.” After Tyler first sustained the vocal injury, six tour dates were rescheduled to 2024, starting in January and running through the end of February, with stops in Detroit, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Raleigh and Cleveland. The band anticipated returning by Oct.

A new report has emerged revealing that certain titles are being given top priority by networks and streamers to start filming ASAP once the actors’ strike is over.