WGA Strike Roundtable: TV Writers Say ‘Frustration Boils’ in Mini-Rooms, Especially With Notes ‘From the Algorithm’ | Video

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“These notes that you’re getting aren’t even really from the executives… It’s nuts,” Shelley Meals, a writer for Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone,” tells TheWrap

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One of the issues at the heart of the WGA strike continues to be mini-rooms and the impact they’ve had — and could continue to have — on television shows. But, as WGA members who spoke with TheWrap note, the rooms have an emotional impact on writers, too.

A mini-room is a practice in which a television creator assembles a writers’ room to create multiple scripts — sometimes even an entire season’s worth — for a show, often before the title has even been greenlit.

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