Showrunners Set Meeting With WGA Leadership

“This was meant to be an information session and not meant to offer anything more than help.”

From Deadline:

A group of top-tier showrunners including Kenya Barris and Noah Hawley has set a meeting with the WGA leadership as they try to aid the negotiating process.

The move is not a sign of discontent among the guild, as rumored by some, but rather a chance to bring more high-profile folks into the process as the writers strike has moved into its fourth month. [emphasis added]

As rumored by some? How about TheWrap from the day before with this: WGA Cancels Meeting With Kenya Barris, Noah Hawley and Other Showrunners Seeking to End Strike.

The showrunners began to reach out for clarification last Tuesday, and the exchanges with WGA leadership was described to TheWrap by an individual with knowledge as intense and emotional, with phone calls between individual showrunners and guild leaders leading to fights, shouting matches and “screaming hangups,” as the individual put it. [emphasis added]

The article, written by TheWrap founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman, relies heavily on this “individual.” I’m guessing it’s an agent.

Meanwhile, the supposed split among showrunners … well, check this out.

The AMPTP is desperately trying to create division among writers by planting stories in the trades when it’s THEY who are divided.

I believe that’s what psychologists call projection.

For the rest of the Deadline article, go here.

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