After six months of strikes, the primetime cupboard is pretty bare. But after a fall filled with repeats, unscripted series and a smattering of stockpiled scripted episodes, the broadcast networks are racing to salvage the rest of the TV season — and that means a scramble to get episodes in place by the start of 2024.It’s not as easy as flipping a light switch, of course. But now that the SAG-AFTRA strike is over, allowing for cameras to start rolling again, audiences may have some burning questions on what it all means. Here, Variety tackles some of them.Now that actors can go back to work, there is nonetheless prep time that comes with getting a project back up and running. Sets need to be built, or rebuilt. Crew members, some of whom likely moved away during the lengthy production hiatus, now need to be recalled (or replacements found). Schedules need to be ironed out, as actors and artisans are these days often working on multiple projects at once: Harrison Ford on both “1923” and “Shrinking,” for example, or Tim Minear co-showrunning ABC’s “9-1-1” and Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star.” Which project winds up in first position for those stars at the top of the call sheet, and what does that mean for everyone else below them? (In the case of the “9-1-1” shows, the plan is for the ABC series to be in first position — after all, Disney’s 20th TV produces them both.)https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/actors-strike-ends-burning-questions-episodes-1235786513/ (ICE LOS ANGELES)

Fonte notizia: Variety