Summer reality shows, such as “Big Brother,” would arrive — the writer-producers who work on them have a different contract — but some scripted series scheduled for the fall would most likely be delayed. A strike could speed that shift: Streaming services have some big shows ready to go — new seasons of “Orange Is the New Black” and “Stranger Things” on Netflix, for instance — and a huge array of on-demand older programming. On Wednesday, television and movie writers — roughly 12,000, all members of the Writers Guild of America — will begin voting on whether to authorize a walkout. With a Hollywood Writers’ Strike Looming, Here’s What to Know - By BROOKS BARNESAPRIL 17, 2017 LOS ANGELES — The threat of a Hollywood strike is getting real. Films with finished scripts — and perhaps some with not-so-finished ones — would continue to go into production. Longtime Hollywood power players — agents, studio executives, labor lawyers — put the chance at roughly 51 percent. A strike could be a death knell for daytime soap operas, which rely on a new episode almost every weekday, unless producers bring in nonunion writers, which happened during the last strike.
