Billy Porter is making a serious life change to ensure he makes ends meet amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
20.07.2023 - 18:13 / usmagazine.com
As the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes force many TV shows to press pause, season 3 of Netflix’s Heartstopper is seemingly still in development.
Creator Alice Oseman — who also wrote the graphic novels that inspired the show — offered a status update ahead of the August premiere of season 2.
“The Heartstopper Volume 5 publication date is moving to December 7th (UK/Ire/Aus/NZ) and December 19th (US)! The book is turning out longer than I anticipated, and I’m also hard at work this summer writing the scripts for season 3 of the Heartstopper TV show, so I realised I needed some extra time to finish drawing the book,” Oseman, 28, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, July 19. “I’m so sorry that you have to wait a little longer but I promise it’ll be worth it! Thank you for supporting the series!”
While Oseman appears to be hard at work on new episodes, several showrunners have been taking a break to show solitary with entertainment unions. In May, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced their decision to strike after a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. (The AMPTP represents major companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony.)
Some TV shows — including Netflix’s Outer Banks — initially continued production with scripts which were presumably finished before the picket lines began. Earlier this month, however, SAG-AFTRA announced its own strike, leaving Hollywood at a standstill.
Due to union regulations, actors who are part of SAG-AFTRA are restricted from filming new theatrical content during the strike. However, projects such as HBO’s House of the Dragon and Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood — which film in the U.K. and employ mainly
Billy Porter is making a serious life change to ensure he makes ends meet amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
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