Writers Guild strike has taken a pretty serious outlook as for the second week in a row there is no scripted TV series production going on in Los Angeles due to the Writers Guild strike.
According to data compiled by FilmLA, the city and county film permit office, because of the Writers Guild strike for the last two weeks, no scripted TV shows are permitted to film.
FilmLA spokesman Philip Sokoloski said, “In a normal week at this time of year, there would be dozens of scripted television projects in production. By contrast, we have no scripted TV series with permits to film this week,”.
The week before that there was only one scripted TV show that had pulled a permit to film in Los Angeles but afterward, many of those shows ceased production because of the strike. The number of location permits paused by film and TV projects was down by 63.2% to 128 for the week ending June 11 compared with 348 from last year.
“These are the categories into which all scripted projects fall, though not all products within these categories are affected by the labor action. Reality TV, as one example, still appears in these counts in addition to non-union independent films.” Philip Sokoloski added.
The strike launched on May 2, 2023, after they did negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers but it failed to reach a satisfactory agreement they started the strike.