All we can say is YEA!

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — After three months of acrimony, an armistice between Hollywood’s writers and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers was finally approved late today. The final vote: 92.5% of 3,775 writers who turned out in Los Angeles and New York to cast ballots or fax in proxies voted in favor of ending the 100-day strike, according to the Writer’s Guild America.

“The strike is over. Our membership has voted, and writers can go back to work,” Patric M. Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America, West, said in a statement.

But while it’s safe to say writers are heading back to work, things are hardly back to normal: Networks that had exercised force majeure clauses to slash deals with writers might not be so quick to re-sign nearly as much talent as before. Having larded prime time with reality shows and other stopgaps, many writers and agents simply do not expect scripted TV to return to previous levels next season — let alone this spring.

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