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Television's most recent 'Golden Age' set off a gold rush that transformed Hollywood. The writers’ strike means the boom has finally gone bust.

If I were starting now, I wouldn’t have been able to stick it out and make a career for myself as a TV writer in Hollywood.

HOLLYWOOD—TV, livestreaming, and motion picture studio bosses’ intransigence in bargaining and creation of “a gig economy inside a unionized workforce,” forced 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, who craft scripts for television, motion pictures, streaming videos and similar form...

Picketing will resume Wednesday as a strike by the Writers Guild of America that's halted hundreds of productions enters its second day.

The union remains at an impasse with Hollywood studios over a host of labor issues, most notably residuals for streaming content, staffing levels in writing rooms and the use of artificial intelligence.

Actor Samira Wiley, married to a screenwriter, joins a writers-strike picket line and credits her Emmy win to scribe who wrote that 'Handmaid's Tale' episode.

Also: Russia warned it would retaliate after accusing Ukraine of attempting to kill President Vladimir Putin

NBC intends to pay two weeks of salary to staff members, while Fallon and Meyers have pledged to fund a third week, sources say.

The last WGA strike cost the California economy an estimated $2.1 billion

Fatal Attraction showrunner Alexandra Cunningham explains the murder mystery set up by the TV show over who killed Alex Forrest.