Although landing any Hollywood gig will always be a challenge, those who work as writers assistants and in other support staff roles within the television-writing ecosystem have found this moment particularly dire. The writers strike is over, and rooms for broadcast hits have reopened, but few jobs in this space have surfaced since then, and getting staffed as a scribe — which remains the goal for nearly everyone taking these positions — is tougher than ever before.
“I would never advise someone to be an assistant anymore,” Nate Gualtieri — who worked in support staff roles for five years, including on The Morning Show, before getting staffed as a writer last year on the short-lived Gotham Knights — tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The pay is too low. The hours are too long. It’s too thankless of a job most of the time. Once in a while, you get a good showrunner who wants...
“I would never advise someone to be an assistant anymore,” Nate Gualtieri — who worked in support staff roles for five years, including on The Morning Show, before getting staffed as a writer last year on the short-lived Gotham Knights — tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The pay is too low. The hours are too long. It’s too thankless of a job most of the time. Once in a while, you get a good showrunner who wants...
- 11/10/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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