{"id":133563,"date":"2023-05-08T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/05\/08\/production-on-apple-original-severance-shuts-down-amid-writers-guild-strike?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2023-05-08T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:39:29","slug":"production-on-apple-original-severance-shuts-down-amid-writers-guild-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/08\/production-on-apple-original-severance-shuts-down-amid-writers-guild-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Production on Apple Original &#8216;Severance&#8217; shuts down amid Writers Guild strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-hero\" aria-labelledby=\"hero-cap\" role=\"figure\">\n<p id=\"hero-cap\" class=\"hero-caption\" title=\"Apple TV+ thriller 'Severance'\">Apple TV+ thriller &#8216;Severance&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/production-on-apple-original-severance-shuts-down-amid-writers-guild-strike.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/production-on-apple-original-severance-shuts-down-amid-writers-guild-strike.jpg\" alt> <\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Production on the second season of <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-tv-plus\" title=\"Apple TV+\" data-kpt=\"1\">Apple TV+<\/a> hit drama &#8220;Severance&#8221; has been placed on hold during the second week of the Writers Guild of America Strike.\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Writer&#8217;s Guild of America is striking in Hollywood, with approximately 12,000 members on picket lines outside major studios.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The WGA strike results from the writer&#8217;s union and the Alliance for Motion Pictures and Television Producers failing to agree on a new contract between writers and studios. The WGA wanted the new contract to provide fairer pay to writers, as well as protections to make writing a sustainable profession, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgacontract2023.org\/announcements\/wga-on-strike\">a notice<\/a> from the WGA.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple TV+ thriller &#8216;Severance&#8217; Production on the second season of Apple TV+ hit drama &#8220;Severance&#8221; has been placed on hold during the second week of the Writers Guild of America Strike. The Writer&#8217;s Guild of America is striking in Hollywood, with approximately 12,000 members on picket lines outside major studios. The WGA strike results from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}