The WGA is trying to strike individual deals with studios since Hollywood producers aren’t willing to come to the table and negotiate; now studios are striking back by canceling contracts with a large number of writer-producers who are no longer producing any writing. The writer’s strike is getting ugly, especially in light of the fact that the Director’s Guild of America only needed five days at the negotiating table to strike a deal with producers.
Perhaps the problem is that writers and studios/producers need to rediscover why they loved each other in the first place. What we need is a revival of the old Love Boat series, allowing the WGA and Hollywood power brokers to rekindle that old spark. Failing the real Love Boat, perhaps a series of Carnival Cruises would do.
