One of the Writers Guild’s Biggest Contract Negotiation Issues Is the ‘Mini Room’ Boom

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  • Author: Jennifer Maas, Joe Otterson and Michael Schneider
  • March 29,2023

One of the Writers Guild’s Biggest Contract Negotiation Issues Is the ‘Mini Room’ Boom One of the most resonant issues on the table in the ongoing Writers Guild of America contract negotiations has turned out to be one of the hardest to define: mini rooms.

Rising to the top of writers’ concerns in bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is the rapid growth in the use of so-called mini rooms in the development and production of TV series. Yet ask anyone around town to define what constitutes a mini room, and answers vary greatly.

While traditional writers’ rooms consist of seven or eight writers, a mini room is often “a miniaturized writers’ room,
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