‘It’s starting to feel like anything is possible’: Comedian Adam Conover on the next phase of the writers’ strike
The WGA negotiating committee member reflects on one month of the Hollywood writers’ strike—and what happens if directors and actors join the picket lines.
When comedian and writer Adam Conover started staffing up his 2022 Netflix comedy-documentary series The G Word, which explores the U.S. government, the precarity of Hollywood writers was hard to ignore. Conover recalls a meeting with the show’s producers: One of them noted that, because the show was streaming, they weren’t bound by the same pay minimums and contract length requirements for writers as a network show. If the producers wanted, they even could pay writers California’s minimum wage.
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