Big Ideas Lost to Mini Rooms
May 18, 2023•47 min•Season 6Ep. 14
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Episode description
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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