DGA Contract Limits TV Actors From Directing to Protect Career Directors Amid Production Slump
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Gene Maddaus
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Summary
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has negotiated a provision in its new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that limits TV actors from directing episodes. This move is intended to preserve directing jobs for career TV directors amid a 40% downturn in production jobs over the last four years, which has left many of the union's 19,500 members unemployed.
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· 1 pulledThe provision is meant to address the 40% downturn in production jobs over the last four years, which has left a great many of the union's 19,500 members out of work.
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