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After taking the temperature on how labor talks were going with Teamsters’ Lindsay Dougherty, Deadline Strike Talk podcast co-hosts Billy Ray and Todd Garner get into things this week with Mike Miller, the VP and Director of Motion Pictures for IATSE. Miller sounds some encouraging notes here…

They’re baaack. We retired Strike Talk, the Deadline podcast by Billy Ray and Todd Garner Deadline hatched to lend perspective and serve as a beacon of hope to the industry during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. We’ve put the band back together because a potential standoff between the signatories and the…

For a Friday that is time for reflection and giving thanks, host Billy Ray and returning original host Todd Garner welcomes WGA president Meredith Stiehm and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher. They talk with the guys about the lessons learned from the long and brutal six month strike that is finally and…

Deadline Strike Talk is taking off today, for the first time in 28 weeks. Filmmaker Billy Ray will reunite with producer Todd Garner for the 29th and final installment of a program that each week covered the painful clashes between the signatories and the WGA and SAG-AFTRA with an insight honed by Ray’s…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with PGA statement: More than 2,300 film and TV producers on Tuesday are delivering a message to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers: leave us out. The group delivered a petition to AMPTP President Carol Lombardini this morning demanding the dropping of the “P” from…

In the 15th installment of Deadline’s Strike Talk, the boys have put the band back together. Todd Garner, who launched the podcast with Billy Ray and then had to bow out to produce a film in Australia, returns after the SAG-AFTRA strike shut down production on his film. In today’s episode, they focus…

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back for Week 6 of the Writers Guild standoff on Deadline's Strike Talk podcast. Click below to listen. This week, our hosts look at what the seismic developments of the past week will mean. Hailing it as groundbreaking, the Directors Guild agreed tentatively to a deal…

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back for Week 5 of the WGA standoff on Deadline's Strike Talk podcast. Click below to listen. This week, Strike Talk looks at the role of independent producers. While often characterized as being pitted against writers by the companies, they are actually natural allies…

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back for Week 4 of the WGA standoff on Deadline's Strike Talk podcast. Click to listen below. Bill Mechanic Getty In this installment, our hosts discuss strike strategy with Bill…

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back after the third week of the WGA standoff on Deadline's Strike Talk podcast. (L-R) Todd Garner and Billy Ray Ray warns picketing writers he has heard that the shows Daredevil and America…

(L-R) Todd Garner and Billy Ray Billy Ray and Todd Garner recap the second week of the WGA standoff on Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast. They then interview with John Wells, producer of shows from ER to The West Wing and…

Since Deadline formed more than 15 years ago, we've never lost sight of the human struggles felt by writers and everyone else during labor standoffs. Today, we proudly launch Strike Talk with Billy Ray and Todd Garner, a weekly podcast dedicated to dissecting the issues that caused talks to break off…