Fears are growing in Hollywood that the film and TV industry is heading towards a major strike this spring. Talks between the Writers' Guild of America and the television and film industry collapsed yesterday after nearly six weeks of intense bargaining. The main problem is based on the issue on residual payments, which writers receive when movies and TV programmes are issued on video or repeated through TV reruns. TV and film studios have been rushing films and TV series into production and stockpiling scripts in anticipation of work stoppages by writers and actors. The two actors' unions have yet to schedule contract talks with the TV and film producers.
