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fans4wga · 9 months

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Where Are My Residuals? Actors/Writers Share Horror Stories On Picket Line, Social Media

"With all the strike talk about low pay, WGA and SAG-AFTRA members are starting to play a little show me yours and I’ll show you mine when it comes to their (paltry) residual checks.

Just about everyone has a story to share about how their residuals took a serious nose dive with the advent of new media. A recent story in The New Yorker about how actors on the once successful Orange is the New Black never enjoyed a financial windfall only exacerbated the angst felt by actors and writers these days.

Here’s a sampling of their stories:

With all the strike talk about low pay, WGA and SAG-AFTRA members are starting to play a little show me yours and I’ll show you mine when it comes to their (paltry) residual checks.

Just about everyone has a story to share about how their residuals took a serious nose dive with the advent of new media. A recent story in The New Yorker about how actors on the once successful Orange is the New Black never enjoyed a financial windfall only exacerbated the angst felt by actors and writers these days.

Here’s a sampling of their stories:

Jason Belleville (Home Economics): “I wrote on the first season of Cobra Kai, which is one of the biggest shows in Netflix history. I think I have more money in my pockets right now than any residuals I’ve seen from that. I was also was an executive producer of a show for Netflix called Sneakerheads, which was a smaller show, but it premiered No. 1 one in a bunch of countries for a little while. I have yet to see $1 from that. And I was a writer and EP on that, in comparison. Some of them [broadcast shows he worked on] you can still get some money from but obviously, it’s not like it was. But there’s always a steady trickle that comes in to remind you that you once worked, right? The [residual] formats for cable and for networks are clear and transparent. Whether they’re as much as we want them to be or not, they’re at least something that you can rely on. Whereas, some of these YouTube shows, these [shows licensed to] Netflix. This whole strike is about having money you can rely on through the years so you can pay for your mortgage, you can take care of your kids, as opposed to opening an envelope and going ‘oh, it’s a nickel this time.'”

Aisha Tyler (Criminal Minds, The Last Thing He Told Me): I do a show [Whose Line Is It Anyway] that is double and triple and quadruple pumped in the United States and maybe 50 countries, and I don’t see any residuals. I know it’s been very frustrating to me and my co-stars. It’s theft. We generate all of the creative output on that show. We are the writers, we are the performers, we do everything and we don’t get compensated for it. I already I already threw a couple of temper tantrums so you can see I’m a bit more sanguine about it now but we’ve been fighting about it for years and it’s just pure and simple. It is creative theft."

Mike Royce via Twitter (writer-producer, One Day At A Time, Men of a Certain Age): “Some people are wondering how residuals will work for this, and since One Day at a Time had the somewhat unique experience of running on streaming, cable AND network TV, I can tell you how it worked for me. In 2020, season 4 of ODAAT was on the Pop Network (cable). Later that year CBS repeated it, because it was the pandemic and they needed programming. I co-wrote an episode with Gloria Calderón Kellett so we split the residuals. For the Pop showings I got (lower) cable residuals, but the CBS repeat paid me half the network residual (exactly what it should be for a co-written episode) … For perspective, that one CBS repeat of one episode of ODAAT paid me roughly the same as I’ve been paid IN TOTAL for one episode of ODAAT streaming on Netflix 24/7 for the last 4-6 YEARS. In other words, 1 network repeat residual = 5 years of streaming residuals. This is why we’re on strike."

Sarah Sokolovic (Big Little Lies, Homeland): “I can tell you the money I made from residuals dropped in 2015 to less than half in 2018. And the funny thing about it was I was on two, Emmy-award winning shows. It’s not on the side of the individual producers, of course. It’s really about the studios making sure that the basic contract has things in place so that actors like me benefit from their work residually over time. There was a time when I was traveling out of the country, so I had to have my mail forwarded to my mother. She was helping me with deposits, physical checks at the time. She opens a check and she goes, ‘Sarah, it’s three cents’. I said yes. She said it actually costs more to mail it.'”

Marqui Jackson (showrunner, All American: Homecoming): “Just in general, residuals are not what they used to be. You can’t depend on residuals to even begin to sustain a living in between gigs. It’s just kind of like extra money because sometimes they’re as low as a couple of bucks. I don’t think there has been a wellspring of residuals from All American: Homecoming, even though we are doing well. It is hard to fight for the right number when you don’t know what the numbers [ratings] are. That’s part of why we’re fighting because if they’re making money off on our content we should be part of it.”

John Carroll Lynch (Trial of the Chicago 7, White House Plumbers): “I’ve noticed that anything I do for streaming is not even one-tenth of the residual stream that I got for something terrible that I did. I certainly got paid more for an episode of The Visitor, which is a show I did when I first got here and only lasted one season. I got higher residuals by about 100 percent to what I get when it [was licensed to] Netflix. At some level, we’re dealing with a different group of people who have union institutional memory. Disney as a corporation has institutional memory of using unions, often much to their chagrin. That’s true of Warner Bros. and Universal. Apple, Amazon, and Netflix all come from Silicon Valley which has no institutional memory of unions. It’s time to teach them what sharing needs to be.”

Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory) “For me the big issue is residuals for streaming. I’ve known that it’s been untenable for years. I was surprised that it took this long for there to be a strike like this. I’ve seen residuals for my own shows absolutely tank once they go to streaming. I’m lucky because I was on The Big Bang Theory, which was on a broadcast network for years. Since it moved to streaming [like Max and Amazon Prime], it’s night and day. I don’t see how it’s possible for an upcoming actor these days to actually be able to make a living.”

Charlie Barnett (Men in Black 3, Russian Doll): I have those check stories of like $9 coming out. Twenty years ago, if I had the career that I have today, it would be entirely different. I can’t afford to buy a house. We just moved into a smaller place in order to start saving. It would be improper to say that I don’t have a certain amount of privilege in the position that I am. I have to recognize that. But us in these positions in of height, have all the ability to fight for the people who are under us, who are still climbing. Just the background deal that they said is historically different is bullshit. I started out in background. Are you going to tell me that I’m going to sell my image in perpetuity to a studio? It’s insane. What happens to my career for the rest of my life? It doesn’t provide any safety, any protection, any ability for growth for what this industry is, for what it’s always been. These contracts that we have built off of network television have stood for so long. We have not seen any growth through the streaming platforms. It’s kind of the Wild West. The conversation point in saying over and over again, the industry we are funding and continuing to put millions and millions of dollars into, is not profiting us. It’s BS. It’s also mirrored in the fact that half of these execs, their pay is raising continually, year and year. We have not seen growth on our side. And through the writers as well.”

#sag-aftra strike #sag strike #current events #union solidarity #writers guild strike #wga strong #wga strike #writers strike

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g4l-p4ls · 4 years

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❗️URGENT INFO ABOUT ODAAT ❗️

Gloria, one of the writers/producers tweeted last night that it's not looking good for a renewal. Please help spread the word to anyone you know to watch episodes 5 & 6 LIVE on cbs. If we can get a boost in views for those two episodes we might have a better chance to keep ODAAT and get it renewed! Also, on Friday (tomorrow) help trend #WeWantMoreODAAT on Twitter. Episodes 5&6 air on CBS at 10&10:30pm EST on October 26! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

#earpers on twitter have begun to help out so if earpers on tumblr could join in that would be amazing #ODAAT #odaat spoilers #odaat season 4 #odaat pop tv #ODAAT CBS #one day at a time season 4 #one day at a time #odaatedit #odaat renewal #wynonna earp spoilers #wynonna earp #earpers #elena x syd #elena alvarez #odaat cast

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veteranalvarez · 4 years

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#one day at a time #odaat #odaat season 4 #They’re reairing season 4 on CBS. That’s pretty cool

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lupesalvarez · 4 years

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Hello! ODAAT Season 4 begins airing on CBS tonight at 9pm EST. This is the perfect opportunity for those of us who missed the original airing because they didn’t have POPTV. ODAAT’s future is currently in the air due to COVID please support it by tuning in through your provider or getting CBS All Access if you can.

We were cancelled but we’re back, please make sure we stay back by tuning in!

#one day at a time #odaat #cbs #netflix #odaat season 4

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hannah727 · 4 years

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Monday is ODAAT Day!! Make sure to stream on CBS, even if you’ve already watched the episodes a billion times! (Like me :) ) it’s how the show gets better ratings, therefore get picked up for another season!

#Odaat #one day at a time #odaat season 4 #cbs

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one-day-at-a-timeblog · 3 years

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I’m not usually pessimistic on here, but I’m scared odaat is not going to get renewed. The way the writers are talking like, it sounds like they aren’t getting their hopes up either. I don’t know what to tell you all, except for keep watching, hashtag-ing, and spreading the word about the show. We got each other. 💗

#odaat #one day at a time #renew odaat #one day at a time season 4 #cbs #poptv #saveodaat

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yurimother · 5 years

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How The Canceled 'One Day At A Time' Can Be Saved

Netflix announced via Twitter that they would not be renewing the 2017's One Day at a Time for a fourth season last week. The show deals with many contemporary issues in America including following the story of lesbian teenage and main character Elena, whose character and story has been praised by LGBTQ audiences.

Following the announcement fan outcry for a Brooklyn 99 style revival, another platform or network picking up the show, was swift and loud. #SaveODAAT reached the top of the trending list on Twitter and even co-showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett got in the action in numerous tweets.

The production company, Sony Pictures TV, quickly began to reach out to networks hoping for the series to be picked up. It looked like the show may have had a ray of hope when, supposedly, CBS Corp made an inquiry about giving One Day at Time a home on their streaming platform, CBS All Access.

However, the transfer of One Day at a Time to a new network is not an easy thing. Like most Netflix series from outside studios, the show is put under a contract that prevents them from being aired on other digital streaming platforms for a few years after cancellation. This means that other services such as Hulu of CBS All Access, the latter of which reportedly inquired about acquiring the show, would not be able to create and air new episodes for a long time. Having to wait this long to create more episodes would almost certainly spell death for the series, as holding fan attention and a creative team together for two or three years is essentially impossible, people must work after all.

Fortunately, there are two lifelines which the show and its fan can hold onto. Netflix could always grant a release for the show to escape the waiting period. Give the series’ positive reception and the potential good PR that this move would create for Netflix it is not out of the question. However, the more plausible option is One Day at a Time being picked up by a traditional broadcast network. While the contract prevents the show from airing on a rival digital platform for years the period before new episodes could theoretically start airing on broadcast television is supposedly only a few months, in time for a release next broadcast season.

These may seem like slim chances, but one never knows. Hopefully, the fun and touching series can find a place to call home and continue creating incredible stories. If you have not seen One Day at a Time, it is very much worth a watch. All three seasons of the show can be streamed on Netflix.

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#news #lgbtq #one day at a time #odaat #save odaat #saveodaat #lgbt #queer #representation #feminism #netflix #tv #tv show #show #cbs #gay #lesbian

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hockeybutmakeitgay · 5 years

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I need a new show to watch

I have hulu and Netflix so any show on one of those

Shows I watch/watched

•911

•grey's anatomy

•night shift

•for the people

•white collar

•oitnb

•cloak and dagger

•the bold type

•the fosters

•good trouble

•burn notice

•fbi

•Brooklyn 99

•station 19

•one day at a time

•bones

•agents of shield

•agent carter

•supernatural

•doctor who

•sherlock

I've been searching for shows to watch and I can't find any, please help a girl out

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sunshineoptimismandangels · 5 years

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Do the right thing Netflix! If you don’t want this show anymore let someone else have it!

#one day at a time #cbs #netflix #odaat

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crystalqueer · 5 years

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DALE, ONE DAY AT A TIME, DALE!

June 27, 2019!

#odaat #one day at a time #cbs #picked up #rita moreno #lgtbq #netflix #can suck it

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gpgurl50recaps · 5 years

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My Top 25 Shows of 2018

1. Brooklyn Nine-Nine- This comedy has remained great in its fifth season, allowing the characters to grow and have romance. It's my favorite comedy on television.

2. One Day At A Time- This show had a very strong second season. It took on a lot of real issues like always but allowed the characters to have fun, be happy and know what they mean to each other.

3. The Good Place- This show is also still funny as the seasons progress and manages to take more narrative leaps.

4. Sense 8- The finale managed to wrap up the storylines and allowed everyone to live happily and sexily ever after.

5. GLOW- This show had a strong second season, embracing it's premise in new ways. It allowed the characters to work out their issues while still being funny. Listen to “Don't Kidnap” if you haven't already.

6. The Magicians- This show had a lot of fun with its writing and storytelling this season. It made the most of its cast.

7. Legends of Tomorrow- This show is funny, romantic and about team building. It does the craziest things it can think of and has fun doing it.

8. Wynonna Earp- This season said goodbye to some characters while strengthening the bond with the remaining. It was heartbreaking and hilarious.

9. Killing Eve- Though based on a book, this was a breath of fresh air for television. It allowed for a cat and mouse game with two women at the center.

10. Sorry For Your Loss- This was an impressive series that just took a look at a family as it processed grief. It had an impressive cast.

11. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend- This show is allowing its characters to grow while maintaining musical hilarity.

12. Pose- This was a family drama centered on the found family in a trans community. It was dramatic, funny and groundbreaking.

13. The Last Man On Earth- This funny series ended letting its characters reach some milestones and finding a lot more survivors. It was fun while it lasted.

14. The Flash- The show is better than it has been in awhile. It has some new plotlines, some humor and Barry and Iris at its center.

15. Corporate- This was a comedy about the boredom and soullessness of corporate life. Very funny.

16. American Vandal- This show was very brilliant. It was a parody of true crime that had empathy for the young people it was built around. There was a lot more it could do. It will be missed.

17. A.P. Bio- This was a good comedy. It was a show about someone in a job they hated and that job happened to be shaping the minds of impressionable young people. It went into a couple of not so great places but for the most part remained funny.

18. Ash vs. Evil Dead- This season gave Ash a kid and took us to post apocalyptic times. It was funny and it a loss.

19. Doctor Who- I enjoy our new Doctor and our new companions. I don't know if the stories are as consistent or strong but it's good.

20. Elementary- This season finally got Sherlock and Watson to Bakers Street. Partners forever. It anticipated its characters growing up.

21. Single Parents- I like this new comedy about parents working together to help each other. The kids cast was also strong.

22. Vida- I like this new show about a family working with their trauma, their community and their own hang ups.

23. Mom- This was a strong year for the show. It expanded the cast and moved the characters into new phases of their lives with new setbacks.

24. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina- This was an interesting new take on old premise that separated itself from the original.

25. The Neighborhood- This was a solid new comedy about a culture clash.

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cosmicphillie · 5 years

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oh my god, CBS tried to save One Day at a Time and Netflix didn’t let them? you mean to tell me they care so little about their inclusive tv shows that they don’t give them almost any advertising, cancel it and then hold it hostage by not letting other networks pick it up? wow

#honestly what the fuck #theyre like a baby that doesnt want to play with their toy but isnt letting anyone else play with it either #netflix #one day at a time #odaat #cbs

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kajaono · 5 years

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CBS: We would like to save Odaat

Netflix: