Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here back from a (hopefully) well earned break with a packed newsletter following a week in which actors joined writers on the pickets for the first time in more than 60 years and the BBC found itself mired in crisis, yet again.
Read on, and sign up here. Putting down their… scripts?: It’s official. And my god it’s going to be big. LA’s 160,000-strong acting community has joined striking scribes on the picket line for the first time in more than six decades, back when a certain Ronald Reagan was the head of the actors union.
The move was ratified yesterday following a two-week negotiation extension that appeared to get neither SAG-AFTRA nor the AMPTP anywhere near to their goal, and actors will take to the pickets when LA wakes. “We are being victimized by a very greedy entity,” said SAG boss Fran Drescher, neatly illustrating where relations between the two bodies currently sit.
What happens next will be momentous. Global ripples: As with the WGA, SAG’s strike has powerful ripple effects beyond American shores.
Read more on deadline.com
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