The NBCUniversal Upfront presentation was the center of Day 14 of the WritersStrike in New York City. Good Omens novelist and showrunner Neil Gaiman was among more than 200 writers and supporters that stretched around Radio City Music Hall
He said the issue that has galvanized him more than any in support of thestrike is the industry’s treatment of younger writers. Like other show runners joining picket lines since May 2 — when the WGA contract with film and television producers including NBCUniversal expired with no deal — Gaiman was harsh in his appraisal of “the phenomenon that they call the mini-room, where you get six or seven writers in a room for six or seven weeks and that is their involvement in a show.
Gaiman said mini-rooms are producing “a generation of writers who are not on set, who don’t know how to make TV,” adding, “Fundamentally it’s a flawed system and we’ll need to fix it.” for its fifth season, agreed. “It’s incredibly shortsighted, as Neil had said, to structure the business in a way that nobody learns the business,” he said.
It comes after around 300 workers across NBC News, MSNBC and Today Digital, which make up the NBC Digital News Guild, walked over in February over what they say is unlawful actions including laying off seven bargaining unit members. The guild is also railing against reports that NBCUniversal instructed managers to “break up unionization efforts”. It also claims that the company “refuses to release employees bound by NDAs in cases of harassment and discrimination” following the firing of CEO Jeff Shell.
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