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After four (!!) months, the SAG-AFTRA strike has ended. There is a lot to unpack about the contract, but I will let the showbiz experts (read: not me) handle that. For our purposes, there are a few key ways podcasting is affected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The most immediate impact will be on the rewatch podcasts, which can finally resume business as normal. As Amrita Khalid reported this summer<\/a>, TV rewatch podcasts hosted by shows\u2019 former cast members counted as \u201cpromotion\u201d and were therefore struck. After a long lull, we can expect a deluge of rewatch content in the coming weeks. (Christy Carlson Romano<\/a>, for one, is very<\/em> excited.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n These shows, many of which regularly rank in the top podcasts on Spotify and Apple, handled the strike in a number of different ways<\/a>. The Always Sunny Podcast <\/em>simply has not published an episode since the strike began. Office Ladies<\/em> banked a number of episodes and managed to publish right to the end of the strike, adding a disclaimer at the beginning of every episode that the recording took place pre-strike. Fake Doctors, Real Friends<\/em> with Zach and Donald<\/em>\u00a0refrained from recapping past Scrubs<\/em> episodes and instead focused on interviews. It is also only fitting that It\u2019s Not Only Football: Friday Night Lights and Beyond<\/em> got derailed by the strike, much like its show of origin<\/a>, and had to pivot to everyday chat until the season ended in September. I hope for me and the other FNL<\/em> girlies that it comes back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n