
Hosting a White House screening of an upcoming Disney+ series, US President Joe Biden used the occasion to speak for the first time about the writers strike crippling TV and film studio productions across the country.
A week after the Writers Guild of America called for a strike on May 2, when contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down, several high-profile late-night TV shows, films and drama series have gone dark or been substantially delayed.