How the WGA Won Historic Contract

‘It Never Needed to Go This Long’

“David Zaslav has never dealt with labor at this level, Bob Iger is clearly preoccupied with cleaning up his mess, Donna Langley doesn’t really know television, and Ted Sarandos was the architect of a lot of the problems the industry has,” said one studio source. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty

From Vulture:

When TV historians start trying to make sense of this summer, one of the biggest subjects of debate will likely revolve around why Hollywood conglomerates opted to bring their businesses to a screeching halt at the same time they were already deep in crisis with the grim new post-peak-TV reality. The executive-incompetence theory is…