Michael Cieply: As Talks Resume, The Collateral Strike Damage Piles Up

The writers have settled. Actors and companies return to the table this week. The awards season is saved (almost, we hope).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large A lot can happen in 146 days. When the Writers Guild strike started in May, Drew Barrymore was one of its early folk heroes, when she stepped down as host of the MTV Movie & TV Awards in solidarity. But four months later, Barrymore became one of the strike’s most reviled public figures when she tried to rationalize the decision to bring back her daytime talk show in the midst of a work stoppage.

In a good sign that the industry is quickly getting back on its feet after the WGA strike, Netflix returned to filming its Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning and Omar Epps limited series, The Perfect Couple in Nantucket, Mass. today, less than 48 hours after scribe pickets stopped.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is officially over. On the 148th day of the work stoppage, the board of the WGA West and council of the WGA East voted unanimously on Tuesday to lift the strike order as of 12:01 a.m. PT on Wednesday.

Reboots and revivals, particularly with TV shows, are a bit of a double-edged sword amongst fans. On the one hand, there is the immediate high of watching your favorite people return to TV, especially if they’ve been gone for years and years.

HBO‘s The Last Of Us season two will being “the second” the ongoing Hollywood strikes come to an end, according to showrunner Craig Mazin.Today (September 25), Mazin took to Threads to share the update following the recent news that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to end the writers strike that began in May.“Very proud of the WGA and its membership, and excited to get back to work on The Last of Us Season 2. The strike has not yet been officially lifted, but the second it is, we will spring into action!,” Mazin wrote on Threads.Craig Mazin, the showrunner for 'The Last Of Us,' has announced that Season 2 production will resume as soon as the WGA strike is over.“Very proud of the WGA and its membership … The strike has not yet been officially lifted, but the second it is, we will spring into action" pic.twitter.com/GmTUa4iJ1S— Episodes (@episodesent) September 25, 2023Mazin’s comments on The Last Of Us season two’s production comes a month after he teased that his and The Last Of Us creator Neil Druckmann’s vision for the HBO series could see it last anywhere between three to five seasons, though he thinks “four seems like a good number”.“[The Last Of Us] can end up being three or five.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Michael Wolff’s highly anticipated book about the rise and fall of Fox News and its Murdoch family heirs will be released only a week after Rupert Murdoch announced that he will step down as the chairman of Fox and News Corp.

Emily Longeretta Julie Chen Moonves is sharing her side of the story. In her new audiobook, “But First, God,” the television personality opens up for the first time about how she found her faith in 2018 following the ouster of husband, Les Moonves, who was forced to step down as the chairman of CBS after he was accused of sexual assault and sexual misconduct. At the time, Chen Moonves also exited “The Talk,” a decision she claims that she was pressured into.

Television is continuing to struggle with original content about the Hollywood strikes.

The Talk is not coming back amid the Hollywood strikes, after all.

CBS has reversed its plan to premiere The Talk on Monday.

As our readers have probably already heard by now, an era is coming to a shocking end as Hugh Jackman and Debora-Lee Furness have announced they’re divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage.

Karamo Brown is one of the lone daytime talk shows that is able to go on during the strikes.

Drew Barrymore is responding to critics after choosing to resume her daytime talk show while the writer’s strike is ongoing.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief That the Toronto world premiere of “The Movie Emperor” is sponsored by high-end home appliance manufacturer Dyson is deliciously and understatedly ironic. In the movie, innocuous-seeming domestic equipment — from the humble suitcase to floor sweeping robots — run quietly amok.

Drew Barrymore’s decision to resume taping her talk show on Monday has kicked off a fight over whether she is violating the rules, or at least the spirit, of the Writers Guild of America strike. On Sunday, WGA East said that the show is “struck” and that any writing on the show would be against the rules. But SAG-AFTRA, which is also on strike, issued its own statement on Monday defending Barrymore.

announced that her talk show would resume production in a statement posted to Instagram. The move came seemingly out of nowhere, as no other hosts have made any public statements about potentially going back to work amid the strike, and it caught many by surprise.

Everyone’s gone to the festivals. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another.

Brent Lang Executive Editor When Patricia Arquette decided to make her feature film directing debut with “Gonzo Girl,” she made a promise to her cast. “I told them that I would always edit everything for the acting — even if the camera work wasn’t the best in that take or some thing didn’t match from a continuity perspective,” she says a week before the movie’s big premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. “I don’t think someone has ever edited my performance directly for the acting, so I wanted to do this greedy, delicious thing for my ensemble.

“I don’t know that much in particular about this dispute, but it feels like this is a moment,” said Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav about the current showdown between big cable provider Charter and the Disney.