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Outside the Fox lot in Century City this afternoon, WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser appeared amongst over 150 members who were on site to picket following the breakdown of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion and Television Producers and the expiration of their contract. The WGA…

EXCLUSIVE: There was “fire and brimstone” at tonight’s WGA membership meeting – the last to be held before the start of contract negotiations with the AMPTP on Monday. The meeting, held via Zoom, was led by the co-chairs of the guild's negotiating committee: former WGA West presidents Chris Keyser and…

Leaders of the Writers Guild of America won't discuss the specifics of the contract proposals they've exchanged with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. But in an interview with Deadline on Tuesday ahead of next week’s start of negotiations, they made it perfectly clear a deal can be…

HBO Max has picked up to series its drama pilot Julia, giving an eight-episode order to the project based on the life of world-renowned chef Julia Child. Starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce, the series from Chris Keyser (The Society, Party of Five), Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment is…

EXCLUSIVE: Party of Five co-creator Chris Keyser is returning to broadcast with Summer, a drama which has been put in development at NBC. It hails from Lionsgate TV and 3 Arts Entertainment. Written by Keyser, in Summer, four different families return each summer to the same idyllic seaside town on Cape Cod. Each…

This past March, Netflix’s The Society was in final stages of pre-production, and the cast was getting ready to travel to Massachusetts to start filming Season 2 of the mystery YA drama series when the coronavirus pandemic brought Hollywood to a standstill. Five months later, with Hollywood slowly easing back into…

A long-gestating Julia Child series project at HBO Max is nearing a greenlight with Joan Cusack in negotiations to play the famous chef and TV personality. The series comes from writer/executive producer Daniel Goldfarb, executive producer Chris Keyser, Lionsgate TV and company-owned 3 Arts. It is one of two streaming…

Netflix has picked up a second season of YA drama series The Society for premiere in 2020. Production is set to begin later this year. Created by Chris Keyser and starring Kathryn Newton, The Society is described as a modern take on Lord of the Flies. It follows a group of teenagers who are mysteriously transported to…

EXCLUSIVE: Concussion and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House writer-director Peter Landesman has gone public with his frustration following an email sent to WGA members by WGA West executive director David Young. Young excoriated "a histrionic, biased trade press" after Deadline and Variety revealed…

UPDATED with Keyser’s current title: The Association of Talent Agents just proposed a June 7 meeting between the full negotiating committees of WGA and ATA to restart talks on a new franchise agreement. The date might create a scheduling conflict for WGA-Agency Agreement Negotiating Committee co-chair Chris Keyser…

WGA leaders David Goodman and Chris Keyser have this week explained for Deadline readers the guild’s position driving its quest to eradicate Big 4 agency packaging and affiliated production companies. That doesn’t mean there aren’t working writers who believe that the strong point that has been made should be followed…

Saying that the WGA and its members "will not be bullied" by the talent agencies, Chris Keyser, the co-chair of the guild's agency negotiating committee, said in a video released Wednesday that Association of Talent Agents never made a real offer for a new franchise agreement before negotiations broke off April 12…