ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.6 - September 1998

Business

The PJs is one of Fox's many prime-time animated shows which will now have writers contracted through the Writers Guild of America. © Touchstone.

Writers Make Prime-Time Pact With Fox. The Writers Guild of America has forged an agreement with Twentieth Century Fox to cover writers working on prime-time animated shows The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Futurama and Family Guy. This is of great significance for animation writers and WGA's Animation Writers Caucus, because it gives animation writers on these shows the same benefits as their live-action counterparts, such as mandatory payment for re-writes and access to the WGA health insurance plan. WGA's acting executive director Brian Walton said, "It is our hope that this far-sighted agreement will lay the framework for similar contracts in this genre." The negotiating team for the deal included Larry Doyle and Dan Greaney (The Simpsons), Alan Cohen and Jim Dauterive (King of the Hill), Chris Sheridan (Family Guy) and Pat Verrone (Futurama), as well as WGA staff Paul Nawrocki, Jane Nefeldt, Susan Gerakaris, Christine Albrecht-Buehler and Kay Schaber. In a separate agreement signed with Imagine Television in May, the guild also established a contract for writers on another Fox prime-time animated series, The PJs.

This issue of Animation World Magazine includes
an article about the WGA's Animation Writers Caucus, by founding member Craig Miller.

SAG Speaks For Cartoon Voices. A tentative agreement covering voice-over performers working in television animation has been reached between The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and negotiators representing approximately 60 animation producers, including Disney, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks. The terms of the tentative agreement have been approved by SAG's negotiating committee, but was not be released publicly until they were approved by guild members. To facilitate this, a special meeting for SAG member television animation performers was held on Wednesday, August 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, California.


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