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He's not an actor, is he? Hosting jeopardy isn't an acting gig. So he's under no obligations to a union and his role isn't traditionally filled by union employees. This isn't crossing the picket lines, as near as I can tell.
For 200, What is the reason Mayim Bialik declined hosting?
Oh I’m sorry you must answer in the form of a question
But they were asked a question!
WGA doesn't represent actors.
Yes, I know but this is about the WGA.
Says who?
SAG is also on strike.
I know, however I actually read the post before commenting.
It's actually very close to a writing gig if the host is doing anything like what Alex's process was. Alex had strong creative input in the rewriting of answers And if he is doing that, and since the normal writers are on the picket line, he is a scab.
Ok. Say he is. Who cares? He's not the one stonewalling the unions or refusing to make reasonable concessions to keep millions of people employed and fairly treated.
Whenever you feed into this trivial infighting, it only strengthens the studios.
No, shaming lack of solidarity does not strengthen the studios. I mean, I can't even conceptualize how anyone would reach such a conclusion. That's a train of thought that has jumped off the tracks and fell into the ocean.
Are Jeopardy writers union? If so the show can't be filmed without them. And generally if you're writing staff is on strike and the company hires scabs to fill that position, the rest of the crew (that can afford to) should strike in solidarity.
I thought Ken Jennings was a cool dude. This doesn't feel like a cool dude move.
Scabbing or not, it's semantics, but supporting the strike seems right to me. Though like you mentioned there's the rest of the crew to think about. Maybe they need this check.
We went on strike a bit over a month ago. A lot of white collar workers and managers were 100% on our side and weren't even mad at being blocked coming in to work. They still came in and did what they had to. No hard feelings at all.