WGA Says Fight With Agencies Hasn’t Stalled Inclusion in 2019 Hiring
Ross A. Lincoln
Marc Guggenheim, who serves as showrunner on Amazon’s upcoming “Carnival Row,” wants to see the long-running dispute between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Association of Talent Agents (ATA) resolved. Here is what he said Saturday during the Television Critics Association press tour: I want to see the stalemate resolved. I want to see us get back into the negotiating room and work this out. Right now, it is a stalemate, and it’s been going on without any end in sight. It’s time to get back into the negotiating room and hammer out a deal. As far as our ability to find writers? At the end of the day, we were able to staff up the second season [of “Carnival Row”] without agents. It’s possible, but agents do a lot more than simply submit writing samples to showrunners. There’s just a lot more going into that whole relationship than just that. We can get buy without agents for that, but that’s not to say that we shouldn’t be getting back in a room and working out a deal. Also Read: WGA Says Fight With Agencies Hasn't Stalled Inclusion in 2019 Hiring The WGA is currently in an ongoing...
The Writers Guild of America says its ongoing dispute with talent agencies has not had a negative effect on efforts to increase diversity in writers rooms during the 2019 staffing season. On Friday night, WGA released what it called an updated Inclusion Report Card that factors in “preliminary” data from the most recent wave of entertainment industry hiring. The report said that women have made up 39% of hires during the current staffing season, compared to 37% in 2018, and people of color made up 30% of hires compared to 29% last year. WGA said also that the percentages were...
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