Seth MacFarlane is one among many showrunners who’ve supported the throughout Hollywood’s twin strikes.

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Welcome to the 231st episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the newest TV information with context from the enterprise and demanding sides, welcome showrunners, executives and different friends, and supply a important information of what to look at (or skip, because the case could also be).

This week, we’re wanting on the impression of Hollywood’s twin strike from a unique viewpoint — that of the Entertainment Community Fund, which helps staff impacted from the work stoppage get by. Here’s how this week’s episode performs out:

1. Mailbag

Ahead of subsequent week’s collection finale, Dan gives an elevator pitch (and plea!) to look at Reservation Dogs as we additionally talk about the potential contraction which may be coming for the TV trade post-strike.

2. Strike Zone: The Latest Updates

The WGA and Hollywood’s studios and streamers who comprise the AMPTP are again on the bargaining desk this week and there’s progress to report!

3. Strike Zone: Daytime Updates

Remember final week once we talked about how daytime syndicated reveals had been returning to air? Toss that out the window! Plus Dancing With the Stars could be the subsequent present plotting its return to must reverse course. 

4. Strike Zone: Inside the Entertainment Community Fund

We’ve reported for months now on how Hollywood’s twin strikes are impacting media behemoths like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery. This week, we shift to concentrate on the employees who’ve been affected by the large manufacturing work stoppage. Staffers who’re on strike in addition to those that should not a part of both the WGA or SAG-AFTRA reside in vehicles and shedding their houses as many high showrunners within the trade rally to assist the Entertainment Community Fund. Joining us this week is Barbara Davis, the chief working officer off the ECF, who has been with the group since 1984. Davis opens up about how a lot cash the fund has distributed to staff in want. During the covid shutdown, the ECF distributed north of $30 million in assets. As the WGA strike heads towards its twenty second week and a hundred and fiftieth day, the fund estimates that tally to be at $20 million. “We’re seeing a lot of people who have lost their homes,” Davis tells us. “More people are living in their cars. … There are lots of concerns around the inability to pay for basic needs.” Click here to donate.

5. Critic’s Corner

 As typical, we finish with Dan’s ideas on this week’s new and returning collection. In this episode, he weighs in on Max’s Young Love, Peacock’s The Continental, the ultimate season of Netflix’s Sex Education and Fox’s Krapopolis.

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