The prolonged strike means films and TV shows will remain sidelined indefinitely, and it's already starting to affect the upcoming awards season.Striking actors Jennifer Leigh Warren, left, and Emily Kincaid, right, demonstrate outside Netflix studios. Oct. 17, 2023.
The reasons, according to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, included a union demand for a fee for each subscriber to streaming services. The AMPTP later responded that the number was based on a union request for $1 per customer per year, which was lowered to 57 cents after SAG-AFTRA changed its evaluation to cut out non-relevant programming like news and sports.The actors are in unscripted territory, with no end in sight. Their union has never been on a strike this long, nor been on strike at all since before many of its members were born.