Our second favorite favorite TV and film writing contest. (You all know what the first placer is, right, wink, wink?) The only drawback to the Humanitas Prize Awards is that they’re for produced material only.
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Category: News
Where Do You Stand on the Upcoming ‘Bewitched’ Reboot?
by TVWriter™ Press Service
We admit it. TVWriter™ has been dead set against most reboots on principle for, like, forever, and included in that blanket mindset have been all efforts to bring back, modernize, or even duplicate one of the most beloved TV series of the ’60s, a little bit of witchery called Bewitched.
Then we saw the following article, including comments like these from our very own Contributing Editor Emeritus, Herbie J Pilato.
Writers Guild of America West Still Working for Net Neutrality
by TVWriter™ Press Service
From the WGAW’s lips to the FCC’s ears. The image is difficult to read, we know, so here’s the statement again:
August 27, 2018Contact: Gregg Mitchell (323) 782-4651 Los Angeles – The Writers Guild of America West has issued the following statement on joining advocacy organizations to file an intervenor brief to reinstate net neutrality:
64% of Female TV Writers Have Encountered Workplace Sexual Harassment
The good news here is that they did the survey and published the results.
The bad news is those results:
by Rachel Monpeller
A month after WGA East released the findings of a sexual harassment survey given to its members, its sister union, WGA West, has published the results of its own survey. Unfortunately, the West Coast’s women writers are navigating just as toxic a workplace as their East Coast counterparts. As Deadline reports, the WGA West survey concluded that 64 percent of female writers have been subjected to sexual harassment on the job, and “a significant amount of the harassment writers experience occurs in the writers’ room.”
H’wood Agents Finally Respond to WGA re New Agreement
Yes, it’s true. The writers (us) and our agents – specifically the TV series packaging agencies (them) are drawing a couple of lines in the sand. And – and this is an even bigger “yes” – at the moment those lines are way far apart.
by David Robb
The Association of Talent Agents has reached out to the WGA with an offer to sit down for informal talks in advance of negotiations for a new franchise agreement that governs how agencies represent writers. It’s the first conciliatory move by either side since April, when the WGA East and West gave the ATA a 12-month notice to terminate their existing agreement, known as the Artists’ Manager Basic Agreement.