The Hollywood Reporter counts 83 pilots produced so far this season, up from 74 last season, though still down from pre-WGA strike levels. THR notes, as we have previously, that AFTRA has signed virtually all the pilots this year:
“SAG has been pushed out of the primetime picture — just as in the ’70s and ’80s, [...]
This from USAN this morning:
In January, the SAG Board voted overwhelmingly to invite AFTRA to jointly negotiate the 2011 Theatrical and TV Agreement. This past weekend, the AFTRA Board voted unanimously to accept the invitation. Under the leadership of SAG President Ken Howard and AFTRA President Roberta Reardon, our unions are moving together in a [...]
This is the e-mail message that went out last night, also posted on the Unite for Strength website:
In January, the SAG National Board directed President Ken Howard and NED David White to seek a joint bargaining agreement with AFTRA for the TV/Theatrical Contract talks scheduled to start in October. Discussions with AFTRA President Roberta [...]
Jonathan Handel has first analysis and official SAG reaction to the unanimous AFTRA National Board vote earlier today to jointly negotiate TV/Theatrical and Exhibit A. Handel quotes an unidentified SAG spokeswoman as saying the vote is “terrific news for the memberships of both unions and we look forward to an effective negotiation.”
Here’s Variety, calling the [...]
The official release:
LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK (Feb. 27, 2010) — The National Board of Directors of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), a national union of more than more 70,000 performers, journalists, broadcasters, recording artists and other talent working in the entertainment and news media, met today by videoconference plenary in [...]
One of our favorite actresses wrote to ask whether a show in fact could be switched from one union to another after the pilot is shot. The answer, we’ve been told, is that it is possible, though it doesn’t happen often.
One of the ways it can happen is that if the pilot is shot AFTRA [...]
