The SAG-AFTRA strike is over, but don’t count on new content soon

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in the person of its president, Fran Drescher) and the major Hollywood studios (AMPTP). It’s a rinse-and-repeat following on the heels of the writers’ guild (WGA), which ended its strike in early October after five months as TV scribes headed back to their writers rooms to crank out late-night monologues or plan for new episodes of their series.“I’m thrilled it’s over,” former “Parks and Recreation” co-star Jim O’Heir told me from Kansas City, where he’s starring in a play (“Catch Me If You Can”) during his strike-enforced downtime from television. “My heart goes out to the local line workers who were affected by this nightmare,” he said. “They haven’t been working and some of them don’t have people protecting them.

So I’m happy for them we’re all going back.“That’s all we wanted to do,” he added. “I was on the picket line a lot and nobody out there was like, ‘This is so much fun!’ It sucked; I’m a big guy and having to walk around Disney … it was like a mile around the place.”“There is absolutely a lot of enthusiasm right now to go back to what we know and what we do.

Everyone is elated,” Hollywood talent manager Lynda Bensky told me. “There will be a break of a few weeks, at least for the actors, because they’re the last [people] on the set and the productions have to get all their crews, locations and sets in place.”Specific details of the three-year SAG-AFTRA/AMPTP agreement, valued at over $1 billion, will be revealed in the coming weeks, including news on pay raises, bigger cuts of streaming revenue and scaling back AI’s impact on actors/background extras. “AI and streaming had to be addressed,” O’Heir said. “I couldn’t be happier and I’m anxious to see what’s in the deal, but what I’m being told is that we made.