Drew Barrymore: National Book Awards drop star as host over strike row
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The return of Drew Barrymore's talk show has caused controversy during the ongoing Hollywood strike.
  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    So she says that the writing of the show is not covered by the strike and then the WGA says that the writing of the show is covered by the strike? How can the writing of her show not be covered by the strike? Is she going to use outside writers or something?

    • Kerrigor@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      There are some things that are still permitted; Dimension 20 closed up production in solidarity with the strike, then was told by the WGA they were actually good to continue. I’m not sure what the criteria is though

      • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
        91·
        1 year ago

        Pretty sure SGA and WGA don’t care as long as your content isn’t covering stuff that the companies they are striking made.

        Dead Meat on YouTube for example wanted to show solidarity and so they were told by the unions to complete whatever contracts they already had and then to stop covering content made by the big studios, basically.

        Since Dimension 20 isn’t exactly using WGA content (to my knowledge?), they’re cool to continue.

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
    81·
    1 year ago

    It takes real chutzpah for the National Book Foundation to get on the bad side of the original Firestarter.