![]() ![]() RELATED: Bob Bakish Says “Pretty Big Gap” Between Studios, WGA Paramount Has “Many Levers To Pull” If Strike ProlongedĮven so, it is also worth noting that there were no writers today on the set of the final season of the series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin, even if unionized stagehands or actors working under no-strike contracts were expected to be. ![]() Filming did resume on the show later Thursday. However, that decision by cast and crew not to cross the WGA picket line was respected by the production and Showtime parent company Paramount Global, and there will be no repercussions, sources connected to Billions tell us. Representatives for Paramount could not be reached by Deadline on Thursday to comment on the temporary shutdown. ![]() The roughly four-hour shutdown of Billions today occurred after cast and crew members decided not to cross the WGA picket lines. “Day or night/rain or shine/you don’t cross/a picket line,” the protestors chanted as more officers arrived outside Seret Studios, one of several production hangars in a warehouse district facing the East River and the Manhattan skyline. A line of picketers - several dozen sign-waving film and television writers and their supporters - were not making way as the tow truck driver tried in vain to ease forward, with help from a New York City police officer. Over at the Billions studio, an entryway was blocked. ![]()
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