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