Thursday, January 20, 2005

FREE LANCERS IN THE US

Had a chat with the WGA today about the minimum hiring standards for free lancers.

Network order of 22 episodes plus: you must hire one free lancer to go to script, plus two more to write stories with an option (the producer's option) to go to script.

13-21 eps: you must hire at least two free lancers to write teleplay stories, but you are not obliged to go to script with them.

7-12 eps: you have to interview one free lancer for each script unassigned at the time of the program order -- which means scripts already written during development are excluded. Note that you are under no obligation to actually hire any free lancers.

These numbers seem entirely reasonable. It helps people break in. Good on the WGA.

6:22 PM

2 Comments:

As one of those people who is breaking in, I really like these rules. I'd like it more if there was a specific rule that someone had to hire ME but I guess that's too much to ask. ;-)

By  Peter, at 7:51 PM  

Just came across this blog. I'm a free lancer and I must say that I haven't come across anything this informative before. I'll keep coming for more...

Cheers,
Dave Klein
freelancer
NYC

By  Anonymous, at 12:25 AM  

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