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Exclusive: As the Writers Guild strike enters its second month and the Directors Guild’s talks with the studios come down to the wire with looming SAG-AFTRA negotiations set to start next week, the under the radar battle between the Teamsters and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers could get explosive.
Demanding that the AICP return to the bargaining table Asap over wage increases, greater overtime compensation and more to avert a strike next month, Teamsters Local 399 have instituted a self-described “week of action” to kick things into high gear.
“Retroactivity is not a thing in the commercial world,” Local 399 VP and Chief Negotiator in commercials, Joshua Staheli told Deadline today of the Don’t Make Us Take A Commercial Break campaign. “Deals are made with ad agencies up front. The commercials producers can’t go back and change the terms after a project has wrapped. This means, anything...
Demanding that the AICP return to the bargaining table Asap over wage increases, greater overtime compensation and more to avert a strike next month, Teamsters Local 399 have instituted a self-described “week of action” to kick things into high gear.
“Retroactivity is not a thing in the commercial world,” Local 399 VP and Chief Negotiator in commercials, Joshua Staheli told Deadline today of the Don’t Make Us Take A Commercial Break campaign. “Deals are made with ad agencies up front. The commercials producers can’t go back and change the terms after a project has wrapped. This means, anything...
- 6/1/2023
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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It only took most of seven seasons, but we finally were given a Donald Ressler origin story.
And the Ressler spotlight on The Blacklist Season 7 Episode 17 took an unexpected twist.
Sure, even though Ressler is the most straightlaced of the Task Force members, he's colored outside the lines.
Just ask Laurel Hitchin, who, frankly, had it coming.
But compared to Harold, Samar, Aram, and Liz (especially Liz), he's a really straight arrow.
So learning that young Donny Ressler was a stoner and a drinker was quite a shocker, as was the big secret that he'd been keeping to himself for 25 years.
Granted, in a typical season, you wouldn't be getting a focus on Ressler as the penultimate episode (no offense to him).
It would have been that breather episode before the monthlong sprint to the finish.
But, in these challenging times, you get what you get when you get it and like it.
And the Ressler spotlight on The Blacklist Season 7 Episode 17 took an unexpected twist.
Sure, even though Ressler is the most straightlaced of the Task Force members, he's colored outside the lines.
Just ask Laurel Hitchin, who, frankly, had it coming.
But compared to Harold, Samar, Aram, and Liz (especially Liz), he's a really straight arrow.
So learning that young Donny Ressler was a stoner and a drinker was quite a shocker, as was the big secret that he'd been keeping to himself for 25 years.
Granted, in a typical season, you wouldn't be getting a focus on Ressler as the penultimate episode (no offense to him).
It would have been that breather episode before the monthlong sprint to the finish.
But, in these challenging times, you get what you get when you get it and like it.
- 5/2/2020
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
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Warning: The following recap contains major spoilers from the Season 4 finale of The Blacklist.
Ever since Raymond Reddington walked into FBI headquarters four years ago, requesting to speak only with Elizabeth Keen, there’s been a flurry of theories about Red’s relationship to the profiler. Is he Liz’s father? Is he, somehow, her mother? Is there another explanation, beyond blood relation, that justifies Red’s loving-yet-creepy fascination with her?
But if, throughout the years, you’ve remained a staunch advocate of the most plausible theory on that list — that Red is indeed Liz’s dad — then Thursday...
Ever since Raymond Reddington walked into FBI headquarters four years ago, requesting to speak only with Elizabeth Keen, there’s been a flurry of theories about Red’s relationship to the profiler. Is he Liz’s father? Is he, somehow, her mother? Is there another explanation, beyond blood relation, that justifies Red’s loving-yet-creepy fascination with her?
But if, throughout the years, you’ve remained a staunch advocate of the most plausible theory on that list — that Red is indeed Liz’s dad — then Thursday...
- 5/19/2017
- TVLine.com
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