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Article: Script change: AFTRA, producers delay talks.
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- April 24, 2008
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Though large gaps remain between SAG and the majors, negotiators have made enough headway toward a feature-primetime deal to extend bargaining for an extra week until May 2.
Wednesday's joint SAG-AMPTP announcement--the first sign of substantial progress from eight days of talks--came a few minutes after AFTRA disclosed that it had agreed to postpone next week's start of its own primetime negotiations until May 5, in response to a request from the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.
"We made our request because we owe it to our entire industry to give the current SAG-AMPTP talks every opportunity to result in an agreement," the AMPTP said ...