SAG-AFTRA Film & TV Talks Extended 24 Hours As Old Contract Set To Expire

Talk about waiting for the last minute. After almost two months of talks on a new three-year film and TV contract, negotiators for the actors union and producers tonight extended their current contract and dealmaking attempts another 24 hours, both sides announced. Here’s the joint statement SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television just released:
Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have agreed to extend for 24 hours the current TV/Theatrical contracts set to expire at midnight tonight. The extensions are effective from 12:00 a.m. July 1, 2014 and expire at 11:59 p.m., July 1, 2014.
The extensions are effective for the Producers-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement, Screen Actors Guild Television Agreement, Exhibit A of the AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting, The CW Supplement, all basic cable agreements that incorporate by reference the aforementioned contracts, and all associated schedules, exhibits, side letters and supplemental agreements now in force.
Negotiations will continue under the previously announced media blackout.
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