Writers Rooms Reopening for ‘Grey’s,’ ‘9-1-1,’ ‘The Simpsons’ & More Shows: Report
After months of picketing for higher pay and better working conditions, WGA members are getting back to work — including writers on Grey’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, and other shows.
Deadline reports that writers for the two ABC series plus those for NBC’s Quantum Leap, Paramount+’s Criminal Minds: Evolution, and Fox’s Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, and The Simpsons will resume work on Monday, October 2.
Writers for Showtime’s Yellowjackets will convene for more work on Wednesday, and writers for ABC’s Abbott Elementary, CBS’ Young Sheldon, Fox’s The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit, and Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls will get back to work sometime next week as well, the site adds.
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The news comes a little less than a week after negotiators for the Writers Guild of America and those for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached a tentative agreement on Sunday, September 24. Two days later, WGA leadership voted to end the strike, which had been ongoing since early May.
Assuming the tentative agreement is ratified, WGA members will get higher pay, viewership-based bonuses for streaming titles, guarantees for minimum staffing for TV writers’ rooms, and disclosures of AI-generated material from studios, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional — with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership,” the WGA Negotiating Committee told members in a memo on Sunday.
“We feel great,” WGA West President Meredith Stiehm told the Times. “We won.”
Even though writers are picking up their proverbial pencils again, Hollywood is still contending with the SAG-AFTRA strike, which started in mid-July. But the actors’ guild will restart negotiations with the AMPTP on Monday, Deadline reports.
If the SAG-AFTRA strike ends in the next month or so, broadcast TV dramas might be able to eke out 13-episode seasons that would start airing in the spring, the site speculates.
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As for the 911 writers room i hope there is a massive change going on. The last two seasons were just badly written. I still haven‘t watched the Season 6 finale (which was a huge slap into the face of the loyal audience of this show) again, which i usually do because it was the worst episode of the entire show. They destroyed every character during the last couple of episodes and my hope for a fresh start in Season 7 has been gone since no changes will be made. Lets just start Season 7 with Buck waking up from his coma so that the terrible and stupid second part of Season 6 can be erased as it should be….
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What 911 was great every season especially the last two seasons
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Not at all. It would have been cancelled for good if it wasn‘t for ABC to pick it up at the last second. For me the last season was absolutely terrible. The emergencies, the character development and most of all the storylines. I had a hard time watching it and wished everytime that they would return to its former glory, but sadly it got even worse.
The current showrunner is not the right person for the job.
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You are kidding, aren‘t you? The last two seasons have ruined this show and the quality of the writing isn‘t even fanfiction level right now. The show should have stayed cancelled
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Hey 911 Writers, stop giving Buck 100.000 storylines and simply focus on the most important one:
let him and Eddie fall in love 🥰🥰🥰
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Natalia & Marisol never to be seen or mentioned ever again.
Lucy can stay away for good, her character had the perfect send off.
We definetely need more of Ravi.
Can we get back the Buckley- Diaz family?
And maybe just let Buck and Eddie finally become lovers….
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Please take notes from this Season 6 finale review 911Writers:
Ok wow, so showrunners and writers knew from the start of the season that this could be the last and still decided that this was a worthy series finale? What a disappointment!
A slap in the face to all the fandom that has always loved the series over the years, supporting and promoting it on social media, creating theories, analyzing every little detail, despite the evident decline in the quality of the narration and the almost total disappearance of the action scenes with emergencies almost always of a medical nature and nothing more, where the times dedicated to the personal stories of the victims on duty prevailed over those dedicated to the main characters.
The big emergecy was good, maybe a little rushed and less emotional than I’d hoped, but it was an improvement over those near-total lack of action all season, but throwing two new love interests in Buck and Eddie in the last 5 minutes, no prior development, no emotion and as usual no chemistry, it really is the lowest point of this serie and the biggest problem is that history repeats itself over and over, it didn’t work then, it won’t work now.
Buck and Eddie deserve better, they deserve stories with a capital S, not rambling and inconclusive plots!
After a decent season 5 for Eddie, we are back to classic absolute nothingness for the entire season, only to end up with the random girl remembered for making loving-eyes her brother!…
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What a pleasure to see, really… Not to mention the talk about dating someone met on a call, which never ends well…for what? Do the same thing 3 episodes later?
If for Eddie there hasn’t been a decent story all season, for Buck it was instead a continuous succession of disjointed and pointless events. What about the meaning of the “happening convention”? What was the purpose of all the “sperm donor” storyline? What is the trauma of being dead for “3 minutes and 17 seconds”? What about the whole “couch theory”? Did it really all come down to buying another couch with a death doula who thinks it was “cool” that he died? Why give Buck all these storyline that are supposed to show the growth of his character, only to make him make exactly the same mistake over and over again? Spoiler alert: men and women can be happily single and still have a fulfilled life!
It would have made more sense continue with Ana and Taylor and try to give them some development but they knew that the biggest part of the fandom would definitely leave, so better to stay vague throughout the season, create false expectations with small signals from the BTS scene so as to keep the interest alive and then stab the fans at the end…
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Several times during the season they showed Buck, Eddie and Christopher as a family, the importance of their deep bond, if this really was mean to be the last episode why not show them happy and together? Not even romantically, but simply as a family, it would have been beautiful to watch, a logical ending for the general audience and a huge gift for the Buddie shipper.
Adding two new love interests outside of the already crowded main cast will always fail because it’s impossible to sustain: the experiment was done with Taylor whose job was at least close to that of the firefighters and the episode that was intended to tell us about her past was, before this, the episode with the lowest rating, but these two girls have nothing to do with firefighting, so how do they plan to give them the right development? They will always remain someone’s “girlfriend”…the “love interest” without any personality and if they try to give them more space, the fans of Madney, Henren, Bathena, Josh, Sue, May, Linda… will rightly complain that there is never visibility for them and furthermore these two ships will inevitably take time away from the friendship between Buck, Eddie and Christopher.
Magical stories are those that build foundations over the course of the seasons but have also instant chemistry, and they need to be between main cast characters. If instead of Eddie they had introduced Edith in season 2, they would already be canon by at least season 4….
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I hope with the move to ABC there will be some major changes, a fresh start, solid non-repetitive stories that do justice to a stellar cast!
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In regards of 911:
Please fire Kristen Reidel and her team of awful writers, before yet another Season of 911 gets completely ruined!!!
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I simply need the 911 writers to completely ERASE the AWFUL AND HORRIBLE second half of Season 6 by making Buck wake up from his coma at the beginning of Season 7.
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I think 911 is one of the best shows ever all seasons .. but yes give a Eddie a love interest
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Eddie doesn‘t need a love interest, Buck is already there .
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I actually think it's really messed up the writers or actors would go on strike ....like they all dont make enough money already ... greedy that's what they are !!!.. what about us fans??? Now we have to wait til.spring 2024 is what I am reading . All because the Writer's and actors want more money .. MAYBE US FANS SHOULD GO ON STRIKE AND NOT.WATCH AT ALL AND LET THE RATINGS GO ALL THE WAY DOWN THE DRAIN.....the writers and actors wont be nothing without fans!!!!
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