Peacock Series 'Hysteria!' Halts Production Due To Writer Strike
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Amid the ongoing WGA writer’s strike, other unions and filmmakers have stopped to show their support. Hysteria!, a Peacock TV series focused on a group of misfit teenagers finding their place during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, is the latest series to put their work on pause in support of the WGA. The series, currently filming in Atlanta, will not resume its filming schedule until the strike is over. Two producers for the series John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein went a step beyond by supplying tacos to the striking writers.
Although the paused productions are bad news for filmmakers and fans, they force the AMPTP to approach the strike with a sense of urgency. Greg Iwinski, a negotiating committee member with the WGA explained the strategy, “Nobody is happy or enjoys that productions are shut down because we want to be back at work and making stuff. There’s been an incredible amount of solidarity and support from the Teamsters and IATSE and them saying, ‘We will honor your lines.’ We want this to be done as soon as possible so that all 11,500 writers and the Guild are back to work, and so we can get back to full production as an industry.”
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He continued, “We believe the fastest way to do that is to close the pipeline of production so that— although it is painful and we acknowledge that it’s awful— the hope is that it’s a sharp, quick, fast pain now so that we do not have a prolonged thing later. We want the strike to be over tomorrow and so this is hopefully moving that forward faster.” If the WGA succeeds in shutting down enough productions either out of solidarity with the writers or out of necessity from a lack of workers, the strike will end sooner, letting filmmakers and writers return to doing what they love.
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Sources: Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter
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