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Speaker 1: Put on your dance and shoes.

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Speaker 2: Don't give me your fast shut Deputy editor at the

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Speaker 2: Daily Oz, Emma Gleskie, who has managed to dress like

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Speaker 2: her water bottle today.

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Speaker 3: It's true, pink and green should never be seen, they said,

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Speaker 3: Can I just do that, you know, just for our.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is magic on radios.

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Speaker 1: Smarty pants bottom of the bottles and you've got a

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Speaker 1: green lid and a pink bottom of the bottle.

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Speaker 3: Did you plan that?

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Speaker 2: No? I didn't plan it, but it does happen more

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Speaker 2: often than I'd like to admit. I tend to dress

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Speaker 2: in bright colors.

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Speaker 3: It's a larger it's a lot of water. One leader

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Speaker 3: to be precise, maybe two.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you should be bringing a commoding city with that match,

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Speaker 1: maybe a matching commode. So many questions, So talk us

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Speaker 1: through the writer's strike. I know that we have moved

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Speaker 1: through the impast but just maybe a sentence or two

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Speaker 1: about what the actual strike was.

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Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely so, in case you missed it. Back in May,

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Speaker 2: eleven thousand writers in Hollywood who are members of the

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Speaker 2: Writers Guild of America, that's their union, went on strike

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Speaker 2: after negotiations broke down with the producers. The Alliance of

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Speaker 2: Motion Picture and Television Producers. So the big production companies

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Speaker 2: think Netflix, Paramount, HBO, Apple, Amazon, Disney, all those players,

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Speaker 2: so they could not come to the table and find

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Speaker 2: a happy new agreement. And the writers said, well, stuff this,

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Speaker 2: we're going on strike, first time in fifteen years that

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Speaker 2: they took that action. And it's nearly been six months,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty eight days, and hoorrah, they have

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Speaker 2: reached an agreement.

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Speaker 1: Is this the same as the actors.

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Speaker 2: So the actors are striking for similar reasons, but the

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Speaker 2: actors have not yet reached an agreement with the production company.

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Speaker 2: So that's sag after it is hoped that, you know,

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Speaker 2: this is going to kind of pave the way. The

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Speaker 2: writers went first on strike, the actors followed eight weeks later. Hopefully,

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Speaker 2: you know, the agreement will follow a similar suit.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of this is about the

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Speaker 1: way we watch films and the way we watch television

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Speaker 1: has completely changed through all the streaming services, and none

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Speaker 1: of the contracts reflect any of that anymore exactly.

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Speaker 2: So what they were striking for in the first place

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Speaker 2: was twofold. It was about pay and residuals. So you know,

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Speaker 2: as we know, streaming has changed. Everything is upended the

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Speaker 2: way we consume television and film. But similarly, for people

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Speaker 2: working in that industry, you know, gone are the days

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Speaker 2: of a Friends or a sign Feld where you're getting those.

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Speaker 3: Huge residuals checks in perpetuity.

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Speaker 2: As you know, networks continue to broadcast those programs.

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Speaker 1: Or a program might be made for a year and

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Speaker 1: you get paid for that year. Now it might be

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Speaker 1: made in three months. The show may run for years,

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Speaker 1: you only get paid for three months exactly.

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Speaker 2: So what they've come to an agreement on is a

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Speaker 2: minimum pay increase of about five percent per year over

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Speaker 2: the next three years. So this agreement takes the writers

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Speaker 2: to the end of twenty twenty six. There's also a

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Speaker 2: viewership base, a viewership based residuals agreement that they've come

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Speaker 2: to which will award bonuses to the writers of programs

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Speaker 2: on streamers that reach a certain viewership.

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Speaker 3: That's fair enough.

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Speaker 2: There's what Snoop dogg from the Wisdom of Snoop dog

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Speaker 2: he said, it's about the streams. Who you know, in

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Speaker 2: the old days, when he'd sell a record, you get

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Speaker 2: a percentage of that record. Yeah, well exactly, So this

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Speaker 2: will be huge for those writers and hopefully those actors

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Speaker 2: as well. And these companies have been really private about

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Speaker 2: the numbers. We never know from Netflix and the like,

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Speaker 2: who watches, how many people watch? There's a confidentiality agreement

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Speaker 2: here that the writers Guild and the production companies will

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Speaker 2: share those numbers confidentially.

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Speaker 3: But you know, maybe someone will start leaking it.

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Speaker 1: And what does this mean that they've moved through the

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Speaker 1: impast What sort of shows are going to start to

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Speaker 1: come back?

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Speaker 2: So the first shows that we're going to see back

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Speaker 2: are the late shows. So the Jimmy's, the John's, the

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Speaker 2: Stevens Colberts, you know, those guys, they've already started to

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Speaker 2: come back. We started first back with John Oliver tonight

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Speaker 2: and he had a huge opening monologue where he said

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Speaker 2: how frustrated he'd been over the course of the last

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty eight days, but how happy he

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Speaker 2: was that the Writer's got a fair deal and it

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Speaker 2: is worth lagging. You know, writers are really saying that

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Speaker 2: this is a great deal. They haven't agreed on it

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Speaker 2: formally yet. That will be this this week that they

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Speaker 2: vote on that, but you know, it would be shocking

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Speaker 2: if they didn't come to the table and say yep,

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Speaker 2: we're here for it because they got what they wanted

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Speaker 2: in terms of artificial intelligence. So that was the other

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Speaker 2: big part of the negotiations breaking down in the first place,

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Speaker 2: is that studios wanted all this say over AI. Writers said,

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Speaker 2: we don't want to lose our jobs to artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 2: So one of the huge, most closely watched aspects of

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Speaker 2: these negotiations was that, and they came to an agreement

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Speaker 2: that AI cannot be forced on writers. Writers can choose

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Speaker 2: to use it, but there are standards to sort of

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Speaker 2: protect their jobs. Ten week minimum employment for riders. So

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Speaker 2: like you said, Amanda, you know they can't be shipped

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Speaker 2: in for a couple of weeks to write a bunch

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Speaker 2: of shows.

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Speaker 1: And have I stripped that exactly replicated.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So phrases coming back.

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Speaker 3: Is coming back.

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Speaker 2: It's the reboot that no one asked all but I

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Speaker 2: suspect Kelsey Grammer's run out of money.

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Speaker 3: Stuff he's got to do.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a plotline phrases run out of money,

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Speaker 2: but no, see Grammar's right, Well, I think they'd weave

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Speaker 2: that in. But the actors it is. I've got a flag.

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Speaker 2: The actors aren't back they're still negotiating, but hopefully they'll

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Speaker 2: be back on sets soon.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, the shows that you love.

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Speaker 2: Are not yet you know, back fully in action, but

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Speaker 2: the late shows will probably get a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of reality TV in the next six.

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Speaker 1: Which is what happened that reality TV started when the

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Speaker 1: writers went on strike fifteen years ago. Zech is saying,

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Speaker 1: how many weeks have I got? How many weeks have

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Speaker 1: I got to lose all this weight that I've put

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Speaker 1: on off for the last six months?

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Speaker 2: I know, I was thinking for Jimmy Kimmel and Fallon, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, they've they've had a good break, haven't they.

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Speaker 3: Just Yeah, the writers on this show, haven't they been

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Speaker 3: slacky off?

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Speaker 1: They've been for eighteen years.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen that this is great. Take your ginormous

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Speaker 3: water bottle and get out here. Above a week