In addition, Seth MacFarlane and the showrunners of American Dad! and Family Guy stopped working until the Writers Guild of America made a new deal with the studios. MacFarlane, Brian Boyle and Matt Weitzman from American Dad! and Family Guy's Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin told 20th Television this week that none of them will work on the series as long as the WGA continues to go on strike.
The Writers Guild of America is on strike and hundreds of television and film writers are on strike. Of course, that means that writing for many television series such as Evil, Stranger Things, Cobra Kai, Yellowjackets and Abbott Elementary has come to a standstill. MySeries keeps up with the latest news about delays and production stops as a result of the strike.
DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Tuesday, May 16 that the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards, scheduled for Friday, June 16 on CBS, and the Creative Arts & Lifestyle ceremony, scheduled for Saturday, June 17, have been postponed pending a resolution to the strike.
THE PENGUIN
Production on Matt Reeves' Max series The Penguin was halted for a day on Tuesday, May 16 due to a disruption by WGA East strikers. The Batman spin-off series was to be filmed in Westchester, NY.
YOU BET YOUR LIFE
FOX game show You Bet Your Life has suspended production during its ongoing writers' strike until an agreement is reached with the AMPTP.
WHILE YOU WERE BREEDING
Freeform series While You Were Breeding has halted post-production due to writers' strike.
ON CALL
The Dick Wolf-produced drama series On Call has stopped production for a day due to WGA strikes. Wolf's first series for a streaming service, Amazon Prime Video, was filming Friday in Long Beach, California, but has now been shut down for the day, Universal Television confirmed.
FBI: MOST WANTED
The first FBI series spin-off from CBS became the latest New York series to be targeted by the WGA's Rapid Response Team on Thursday, May 11. After the break, the drama with Dylan McDermott and Alexa Davalos resumed filming on location in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood.
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: SUMMER SCHOOL
HBO Max's Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, the fourth series in the PLL franchise and the sequel to Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, was filming in the small town of Newburgh, outside the Big Apple. It's unclear if production was formally shut down for the day, but in the past, series like Billions have halted filming for a few hours due to picket fences.
POWER BOOK II: GHOST
The first spinoff in Starz's Powerverse attempted to film in NYC's Tribeca neighborhood, but everything ground to a halt when the fast-moving Rapid Response Team from the WGA East arrived.
P-VALLEY
Starz's P-Valley, whose third season is filming, has postponed production in Atlanta due to the writers' strike. On May 10, creator and showrunner Katori Hall said, "We're not going to film until a fair deal is reached".
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN
After being plagued by WGA East strikes and being shut down for a while earlier on May 8, Marvel's upcoming revival on Disney+ on Wednesday, May 10 was once again targeted. Now Daredevil has gone black for the rest of the week.
BILLIONS
The Showtime series was shut down for several hours on May 4 after cast and crew members refused to cross WGA picket lines. Filming resumed later in the day. However, on Wednesday, May 10, two groups of WGA East strikers prevented the seventh and final season of the Wall Street drama from being filmed on location. Billions was shut down again with no firm start time or date announced.
AVA DUVERNAY DRAMA
Starz's as-yet-untitled romance drama from Ava DuVernay, starring Lauren Ridloff and Joshua Jackson, is halting production due to the strike. The series has been filming in Wilmington since March, but will end production this week.
SINKING SPRING
WGA strikers have halted production of the Apple TV+ series Sinking Spring for Tuesday, May 9.
