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WGA Writers Consider Choreographing ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Picket

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After Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher, Jennifer Hudson and The Talk reversed course on premiering their talk shows, some WGA members are now focusing on Dancing with the Stars and questioning why the dance competition is moving forward with its Sept.

26 return to ABC. Picketing writers like David Slack have used X to remind fellow union members that DWTS is a WGA show, though most of the banter is improvised based on what just happened on the dance floor.

A source close to production tells Deadline that only one WGA writer typically works on the show that otherwise employs 500 people.

Even then, the source said, the writer produces talking points for host Alfonso Ribeiro. DWTS also aired during the 2007-08 writers strike, and was not picketed.

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