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Staff at French state broadcasting companies France Télévisions, Radio France and France Media Monde were due to strike today in protest of government plans to phase out the TV license fee which traditionally finances their services. From early morning, 24-hour cable news channel France Info was re-running feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Crewmembers on Netflix's Nailed It! have gone on strike in a bid to secure a contract with IATSE. Picketing is underway against Magical Elves, the show's production company, at Quixote Studios in Pacoima, CA. "The IA is on strike," said a source familiar with the walkout. "They haven't signed a contract…

UPDATED with G/O Media CEO’s note to staff at bottom: Nearly 100 WGA East-represented newsroom staffers have gone on strike against the Gizmodo Media Group's digital news sites – Gizmodo, Jezebel, The Root, Lifehacker, Kotaku and Jalopnik. Picket lines went up outside the parent company's offices in New York City on…

IATSE and the AMPTP have concluded their fourth day of do-or-die bargaining and will resume negotiations for a new film and TV contract on Saturday. But if a deal is to be reached, and a strike averted, it will have to be made soon. "It's a matter of days, not weeks," IATSE president Matthew Loeb said tonight. Last…

UPDATED: Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY) took to Twitter today in support of the IATSE strike authorization. “FULL support and solidarity to @IATSE workers in their vote to authorize a strike,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez. She called the 90% turnout with 98% voting “Yes” an “incredible accomplishment.” AOC said…

BBC One has commissioned its latest drama from the makers of Bodyguard — a six-part series about a murder trial that explodes in the national consciousness. World Productions will make Showtrial for the British broadcaster after working with Strike and The Tunnel writer Ben Richards to create the series, in which two…

J.K. Rowling's crime drama Strike will return to U.S. cable network Cinemax and has added a slew of actors for its next iteration. Live By Night's Robert Glenister and Peaky Blinders' Natasha O'Keeffe have joined the series, which is based on Rowling's best-selling Cormoran Strike crime novels written under the…

EXCLUSIVE: Line of Duty and Crossing Lines director Susan Tully is to helm the next iteration of J.K. Rowling's BBC One crime series Strike. Tully, who has also directed episodes of Sky Atlantic's Tin Star, Amazon co-pro Britannia and BBC's autism drama The A Word, will direct Lethal White, the fourth season of the…

J.K Rowling's detective Cormoran Strike is heading back to the BBC with four new episodes of the crime drama. The series, which is known as Strike in the UK and ran as C.B. Strike on HBO's sister network Cinemax, is returning with Lethal White, a four-episode run based on the latest book written by Harry Potter…

SAG-AFTRA members have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new video game contract and end the longest actors’ strike in U.S. history. The 340-day strike, which was launched against 11 major companies on Oct. 21, 2016, was suspended on Sept. 25 when the union reached a deal with the companies. That deal was unanimously…

SAG-AFTRA today said it's ready to return to the bargaining table to end the 232-day strike against nine video game companies if it receives an "honest overture" to do so. The union's statement comes a day after the struck companies invited the union to resume negotiations, which have been stalled since last fall. The…

SAG-AFTRA and representatives of the struck video game companies don't agree on much; they don't even agree on which companies are being struck. The union says it's striking 11 companies, but the companies' chief negotiator says that two of the companies on the union's strike list aren't even in business anymore. One…