Not every TV and film production will stop amid dual strikes by SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America. A host of projects stopped work after writers went on strike against media companies for better pay, streaming data transparency and protections against artificial intelligence (among other issues), and many more have paused since actors walked out on July 14.
There are exceptions, however. SAG-AFTRA’s strike rules allow for work on productions covered under different agreements, and the union can grant waivers or sign interim agreements with independent productions. Below is a list of TV shows and films that fall under those designations; this story will be updated as more productions earn waivers.
Interim Agreements
SAG-AFTRA has reached interim agreements with numerous independent productions, including movies from A24 (Death of a Unicornstarring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, and Mother Mary with Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel) — which is not part of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — and the Mel Gibson-directed, Mark Wahlberg-led Flight Risk. The Chosena crowdfunded TV series about the life of Jesus, also reached an agreement to finish filming on its fourth season.
Starting July 27, the union also allowed actors to “audition and/or engage in negotiations regarding casting for” certain productions, but actors are not yet allowed to “travel, rehearse, or otherwise begin rendering services for the production” under strike rules. Those productions are noted with an asterisk.
The full list of titles with interim agreements is below.
The 3_2 Pulldown
The 4:30 Movie
40 Acres*
47 Days
1996
Adult Best Friends
After This Death*
Aguadilla
Alarum*
Ali 1978: The Butterfly’s Last Dance
American Deadbolt
American Nightmares
Americatsi
Anchorage
Angel’s Peak*
Anniversary
The Ar Racist
Armadilla
Armored*
Asian Persuasion
The Assessment
The Astronaut*
Autobahn
Average Joe
Baby Blue
Back on the Strip
Bad Haircut*
The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
The Bar (pilot)
The Beast*
The Beldham
Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in Four Parts
Beneath the Grass
Beneath the Light*
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Beyond the Walls
Aunt
The Bird and The Bee
The Bishop*
Black Girls in Paris*
Blackwater Lane
Bloodknot
Bloody Bridget
Blue Rose
Bob Trevino Likes It
Bobcat Moretti Part 2
Bootyology
Breakwaters
Bride Hard
Buffalo Daze
Buster Brooks*
By the Grape of God*
The Cafone
Catharsis
Chasing Midnight
Chimera
The Chosen
Cobalt
Coming Together*
Company*
Conditions of Return
Conduit
Copperheads
Cottonmouth*
Coup!
Crescent City*
Crust
Cuando Volvimos a la Tierra
Cub Scouts*
Cuckoo
Daddio
Daddy
Dance First
Darkness Trail
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Dead Guy
Death of a Unicorn
Decibels
Departing Seniors
A Desert
Desert Dawn*
Devoted*
Didi
Dogman
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Don’t Move
Don’t Trip
Dos Lados
Dottie
Double Exposure
Draft Night
Dream Devil
Dream Scenario
Dust Bunny
The Dutchman*
East of Wall*
East Texas Oil
El Tonto Por Cristo
Emmanuelle — The New Era*
Escaping Ohio
Every Other Weekend*
Everything and the Universe
Excelsis
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Eyes in the Trees*
F-Plus
The Fabulous Four*
Fairwood
Fairy
Fancy Florez’s Summer Staycation
Fantasy Life*
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Ferrari
Flash Before the Bang*
Fleeing
Flight Risk
Floaters
Fluxx
The Fort
Freedom Hair
Fremont
Friends and Foes
From Ashes
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree*
G20
Gaia
Ganymede
Glitter & Doom
Godless
Good Side of Bad (2020)
The Gray House
The Greatest Ever
The Green Fairy
The Green Veil
Griffin in Summer
Grizzly Night
Growing Pains
Guns and Grams, The Pizza Connection (pilot)*
The Gunslinger*
Guys Night*
Hal & Harper
Helga
Hell of a Summer
Here Now*
Heretic*
Hey Joe!*
Hey Victor!
Holiday Twist
How I Got There
Hyenas
I Love You Forever
Ick
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing
In Cold Light
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Inheritance*
Interview With the Vampire
Invisible Raptor
Iron Lung
Isaac
Isle Child
It Came From Within
The Italians
Jules
Jules and Jonas: The Vertical Truth
Jump Scare
Just Breathe
K-Pops!
Keyz
Killing Castro*
The Killing Moon
King Ivory
King of Hearts*
Ladybug
Lake George*
The Last Call (aka From the Shadows)
Last Meals*
The Leader*
Leaves of Glass
Legend of the White Dragon
The Lemurian Candidate
Leopardi & Co.*
Life Cycle 63
The Life of Chuck*
Lilies Not for Me
Lion Girl
Locked*
Longlegs
Lousy Carter
Love in Storytown
Love Is the Monster
Magic Farm
Magpie Funerals
The Mannequin
Martyrs of Gowanus
The Mattachine Family
Megalopolis
Memories
Men of Divorce
Mermaids*
The Method
Midnight Oil
Mindtraveler
Miranda’s Victim
Mistake*
Monica
Mooch*
Mother Mary
Mother, May I?
Mountains
Mourning Rock
Murder Company*
Mutt
my hero
My Valentine Wedding
Naked in the Park
National Anthem
Night Talkers
Nightshift
No Language
No Right Way
No One’s Calling*
Nuremburg*
Oblivious
Obsessed With Light
Oh, Canada*
OLMO*
Omaha
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
Open Wounds*
Origin of Species*
Osiris
The Other You
Outen the Light
Outlaw Johnny Black
The Pact*
The Painted
Pandemonium*
A Paracosm
Paradise and Lunch
Parthenope
The Penguin and the Fisherman
Pep
The Pishach
Please Don’t Feed the Children*
Postcards From Earth
Presence
Press Your Luck
Priscilla
Privilege*
Publish or Perish
Queen of Knives
Queen of the Rings
Radical
Rebel Girl
Red Dirt*
Redville
Relative Control
Return to Wickensburg
Riff Raff*
The Rituals
Rivals of Azmiah King
Roar of the Fire
Rosary*
Roses on the Vine
Rotting in the Sun
Rumours*
Save Yourself*
Scared Shitless
Scary Tales Anthology
Scrap
The Second Coming of John Cooper
Sell Out
Shadow Dance*
Shakey Grounds
Sharp Corner*
She Came to Me
Shelter in Solitude
The Shining Hour
The Short Game
Shoulder Dance
Sight Unseen
Sing Sing
Small Town Big Story
Smoke Screen*
Sod and Stubble
The Sound
Space Bears
Starstruck
Stay at Home
Stealing Cars
The Strange Dark*
The Summer Book
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)
Superthief*
Surviving the Streets
Susie Searches
Sydney vs. Sean
Tehran
The Killer’s Game
Things Will Be Different
Threads*
Til Death… Do You
The Tower
Transamazonia
Tricked & Treated*
Triggermen*
Tuesday
Two Neighbours
Under My Skin
Underdeveloped
The Unknown Country
Until He’s Destroyed
Untitled Guy Riche project
Untitled Instant Pot project
Untitled Jazzy project
Untitled John Schwab project
Untitled Peter Greenaway project*
Untitled Rebuilding project
Untitled road movie
Uppercut
The Velocipastor 2
A Very Stinky Summer
Videoheaven
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
The Watchers
Water for Life
The Wayfinders
Week End Escape Project
Westhampton
What Comes Next
What Happens Later
What Rhymes With Magdalene
What She Doesn’t Know
When Calls the Heart
Who Says You Can’t Go Home
Who’s Watching
Wild Cards
Wildcats
The Wilderness
Wildfire*
Witchboard
Without Consequences*
The Yellow Tie
You Can’t Stay Here
Young Claude
Your Lucky Day
Network Code Productions
SAG-AFTRA’s National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting, aka the Network Code, covers daytime dramas, variety shows, game shows and other unscripted projects. The current contract for Network Code shows is in effect through June 2024; below are shows The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed will remain in production.
America’s Got Talent (live episodes beginning Aug. 22)
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
Jeopardy! and Celebrity Jeopardy!*
Wheel of Fortune and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
*Both the syndicated Jeopardy! and ABC’s Celebrity Jeopardy! are written by WGA members. Sources tell THR that writing on season two of Celebrity Jeopardy! was completed before writers went on strike in May, while the syndicated show will draw on material from its past four decades to begin the 2023-24 season.