Underunderstood

Big Ideas Lost to Mini Rooms

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Hollywood is stockpiling scripts for full seasons of unreleased television shows. Are they throwing them out or saving them for a rainy day?

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Show notes:

  • Why Are TV Writers So Miserable? (The New Yorker)
  • Hollywood Writers Strike (Democracy Now!)
  •  Film and TV writers are striking (CNN)
  • Writers strike focuses on whether AI could take jobs from screenwriters (CBS News)
  • Writers On Set (George R. R. Martin’s Not A Blog)
  • Alex O’Keefe (Linktree)
  • The Bear (Hulu)
  • 2023 Writers Guild Award for Comedy Series (YouTube)
  • Reed Hastings on Colbert (YouTube)
  • Amazon? HBO? Netflix thinks its real competitor is… sleep (CNBC)
  • We Watched It All | Netflix (YouTube)
  • Writers Are Not Keeping Up (wgacontract2023.org)
  • Reed Hastings on Building a Streaming Empire (YouTube)
  • Hollywoodstrike.org
  • wgacontract2023.org
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