Veep's Matt Walsh is "taking a pause" from Dancing with the Stars due to WGA strike

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[dull_and_wicked]

i’m started to get irritated by the professional dancers on the show being toted out to state over and over that the sag aftra members on the show aren’t doing anything against the rules so they shouldn’t be concerned

lol they’re making a major amptp member money. the wga considers it a struck show, and lbr, whatever contract agreement the wga comes to with the amptp is going to massively impact elements of the sag deal when their negotiations restart (especially if a real infrastructure for tracking streaming viewership is created bc of it) so it makes sense that the actors on these ~non-dramatic productions~ would have some hesitancy to do anything that puts money in disney’s pocket rn

[just444]

As I understand it sag was not aware that this was a wga show, the cast did check in on them before and sag said it was fine and now they have contracts signed. Unfortunate all around

[peddlestools]

oh that's rough

[scriptedending]

God that sucks, what a shitty position for the participants to be in.

[polynucleotide]

christ what a nightmare.

[polynucleotide]

remember when studio mouthpieces said a deal was going to be reached by the end of yesterday? interesting how that didnt happen. /s

[dull_and_wicked]

and the wga negotiating committee sent out an email to their members last night to be all hands on deck on the picket lines today because they need a show of force at this point of the process lollll yeah the deal totally seems done

[veritas_44]

I wouldn’t be surprised if ABC lied to all of them

[gimmemoarjosh]

Well, ABC = Disney, so that makes sense!

[scooterology]

ABC after Matt found out this was covered by WGA.

[wirepatch]

Mike <3