PayUpHollywood: The Showrunners Who Go to War for Their Assistants
CREDIT: CONOVER: ANDREW H. WALKER/SHUTTERSTOCK; RUKEYSER: MEDIAPUNCH/SHUTTERSTOCK; GUGGENHEIM: GREG DEGUIRE/JANUARY IMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK, are challenging the long-accepted industry standards of paying support staffers barely above the minimum wage. In person however, speaking up for these workers — at least on television productions — is a task that often falls to those showrunners who choose advocate for those on set with the least power and the most to lose..
The competition for those assistant jobs, however low-paid, is cutthroat. There’s no shortage of people ready to leap at the chance to be production assistants, showrunners’ assistants, script coordinators, writer’s production assistants and writers’ assistants — many with the dream of becoming staff writers and producers themselves. For now, they just want to be in the room where it happens, knowing that the job can be a stepping stone.
“Sometimes it’s a little bit of a fight to make sure they’re still getting paid as an assistant, even though they’re up there [on set] as a writer,” says Guggenheim. “My rationale is their job as an assistant doesn’t go away. They’re still doing things from set related to [their primary job as an assistant].
, of “Legacies” and “Vampire Diaries,” pools together money with other writers on the show to give out as a bonus to support staff to ensure that “at a bare minimum they’re seeing what they would’ve seen were they getting paid.” Every assistant he has hired has earned a credit of some kind, such as a shared “story by” or “teleplay by” credit.
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