Weeds signs with WGA

Producers of Weeds and Mad Men have signed interim deals with the WGA that allow them to resume production. Weeds is heading into its fourth season.

Lionsgate and Marvel Entertainment have reached an agreement as talks continue with the AMPTP. Their move furthers the WGA’s hopes to “divide and conquer” producers.

“Lionsgate is considered a leader in the industry and its signing an interim agreement again confirms that it is possible for writers to be compensated fairly and respectfully for their work and for companies to operate profitably,” said a WGA representative.

But the AMPTP hit back saying, “These one-off agreements are meaningless because the companies signing them know they will not have to abide by their terms for very long, since they’ll be superseded by whatever final industry-wide accords are reached. If companies truly had to live by the terms of these one-off agreements, we are confident none would ever be signed.”

Source: Variety.