American - Producer | December 20, 1946 -
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.
Dick Wolf
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There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
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You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.
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If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
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I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
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The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
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Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
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Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'
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As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.
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