Big Ideas Lost to Mini Rooms

About this episode

Hollywood is stockpiling scripts for full seasons of unreleased television shows. Are they throwing them out or saving them for a rainy day? Want to support the show? Become a patron at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/underunderstood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Have a mystery? Email hello@underunderstood.com or leave a voicemail at 212-994-4882‬. Show notes: • Why Are TV Writers So Miserable? (The New Yorker) • Hollywood Writers Strike (Democracy Now!) •  Film and TV writers are striking (CNN) • Writers strike focuses on whether AI could take jobs from screenwriters (CBS News) • Writers On Set (George R. R. Martin’s Not A Blog) • Alex O’Keefe (Linktree) • The Bear (Hulu) • 2023 Writers Guild Award for Comedy Series (YouTube) • Reed Hastings on Colbert (YouTube) • Amazon? HBO? Netflix thinks its real competitor is… sleep (CNBC) • We Watched It All | Netflix (YouTube) • Writers Are Not Keeping Up (wgacontract2023.org) • Reed Hastings on Building a Streaming Empire (YouTube) • Hollywoodstrike.org • wgacontract2023.org