Suspend & Not Extend: Universal Studio Group Opts Not To Lengthen Its Reinstated Term Deals, Focuses On Renewals Instead
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: For some writer-producers, the enthusiasm over going back to work this week was dampened by the news that their overall deals, suspended during the WGA strike, are being reinstated but not extended.
Nowhere has this been more prevalent than Universal Studio Group, which includes Universal Television and UCP. The company has reinstated all of its writing and non-writing producers but did not extend the term on any of the deals, I have learned.
This does not impact mega UTV/UCP producers such as Dick Wolf and Seth MacFarlane, whose deals were never suspended as they worked on non-struck shows throughout the strike.
It also barely impacts non-writing producers like NBCU staple Lorne Michaels whose pacts were suspended for just a couple of weeks.
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