Roughly 12,000 of Hollywood’s film and TV writers are out of the office and on the streets, picketing for a new and fair contract with the industry’s major studios. In the first week since the Writers Guild of America announced a strike, multiple productions have been stalled or otherwise impacted, as they were during the last writers strike of ’07-08. 

In solidarity with the union efforts, Drew Barrymore was out as live host of Sunday’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. Though the ceremony will move ahead, Barrymore will appear only in pretaped segments. She has, however, committed to emceeing next year’s ceremony. “I have listened to the writers, and in order to truly respect them, I will pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live in solidarity with the strike,” she said in a statement to Variety. “Everything we celebrate and honor about movies and television is born out of their creation. And until a solution is reached, I am choosing to wait. But I’ll be watching from home and hope you will join me.​”

Meanwhile, UK filming on House of the Dragon season two will continue, as scripts have been finalized, a production source told Variety, although, as it currently stands, any rewriting by WGA members would be prohibited. The same goes for Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, although the show will complete its final 19 days of filming sans showrunners and  executive producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, sources told Variety. Instead, non-writing executive producers will shepherd the last leg of shooting. But other series that were previously in production have ground to a halt. Ahead, a look at the shows and movies shutting down mid-strike. 

This post will be updated.

Jeopardy

For the final week of filming on the game show’s 39th season, host Mayim Bialik will step away in solidarity with the writers’ strike, Deadline reports. Filling in for the final three episodes will reportedly be Ken Jennings, who shares hosting duties with Bialik. 

Andor

“I discontinued all writing and writing-related work on Andor prior to midnight, May 1. After being briefed on the Saturday showrunner meeting, I informed Chris Keyser at the WGA on Sunday morning that I would also be ceasing all non-writing producing functions,” showrunner Tony Gilroy said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter after a WGA member accused him of “scabbing” by working on season two of the Star Wars series, which is in production on its second season, mid-strike. 

P-Valley

The third season of the Starz series has paused production in Atlanta, creator and showrunner Katori Hall tweeted on May 10. “Like many of my fellow showrunners, I feel as though my writing & producing duties are inextricably linked,” Hall wrote. “We will not be filming until a fair deal is reached.”

Severance

Season two of the Apple TV+ series has shut down, Deadline reports, after both WGA members and IATSE members demonstrated outside New York’s York Studios with teamsters refusing to cross picket lines. 

Blade

The first major Hollywood film to shut down after the strike, Mahershala Ali’s Marvel film was set to begin filming next month in Atlanta, per The Hollywood Reporter. Instead, “time simply ran out” on script rewrites from True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, and production will resume when the strike ends. 

Evil

The fourth season of the Paramount+ series has shut down, ending the season early as a cast member takes a leave of absence to tend to a personal family matter. Filming wrapped on Friday amidst protests near production, according to Variety.

Stranger Things

Creators Matt and Ross Duffer tweeted their support of the writers’ strike on May 6, confirming that production on the show’s final season was on pause. “Duffers here. Writing does not stop when filming begins,” the message began. “While we’re excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then—over and out. #wgastrong.”

Billions

“You make billions/pay us some!” WGA members repeated near a Wall Street shooting location for the seventh and final season of Billions, which is now at a standstill, according to Deadline. 

Loot

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that production on the second season of Maya Rudolph’s Apple comedy halted after picketing WGA members appeared outside of the Bel-Air mansion where some of the series is filmed. 

Game of Thrones Spinoff

Author George R.R. Martin confirmed in a May 7 blog post that the writers’ room on a planned Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, “has closed for the duration” of the strike. Later in the post, he clarified that scripts for the second season of House of Dragon “were all finished months go” and that “every episode has gone through four or five drafts.” Given the strike, “there will be no further revisions” on those scripts, Martin wrote. 

Hacks

“We are devastated to not be with our incredible crew and cast right now, but there was no other option here,” Jen Statsky, one of the show’s creators tweeted on Friday about the status of season 3. “Writing happens at every stage of the process—production and post included. It’s what makes shows and movies good. It’s what makes them possible. #wgastrong”

Saturday Night Live

NBC’s flagship sketch series is at a standstill, with three episodes remaining in its 48th season. The show will air reruns in its final three weeks, which were set to include Pete Davidson’s hosting debut on May 6 with musical guest Lil Uzi Vert; Kieran Culkin’s second time hosting on May 13, with musical guest Labyrinth; and Jennifer Coolidge’s hosting debut with Foo Fighters as musical guest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. (NBC declined comment to the outlet.)

Davidson, whose Peacock series Bupkis just premiered, told The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon last week that a canceled show would fit his personal branding, joking: “It sucks because it just feeds my weird story I have in my head, like, of course that would happen to me.” Meanwhile, SNL cast member Bowen Yang told THR from the picket lines, “We had a few good shows left…Pete was very excited to host, even though he knew there was a big asterisk on the week, and there was a looming possibility it might not happen. I think we were all ready to give it our all for the next three weeks before the season ended.”

Late-Night TV

Given the breakneck speed with which late-night writers must write each night’s episode, it’s no surprise to learn that late-night shows are the first to go dark during a strike. The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night With Seth Meyers, and The Daily Show have all gone on hiatus, and are expected to air reruns for the time being.

Multiple hosts have already committed to paying their crews during the hiatus, according to sources and Hollywood trade reports, including Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and Late Night’s Seth Meyers, both of whom are listed as members of the Writers Guild of America East branch. NBC will shell out staffers’ salaries for two weeks, with Fallon and Meyers personally contributing funds to help extend their pay for a third week. The network is also paying for employees’ health care through September. An NBCUniversal spokesperson declined comment to VF.

“I feel very strongly that what the writers are asking for is not unreasonable,” Meyers said during Monday’s episode of the show—his last for the foreseeable future. While on the red carpet for the Met Gala, Fallon agreed: “I wouldn’t have a show if it wasn’t for my writers. I support them all the way.” His announcer, former SNL cohead writer Steve Higgins—whose son John Higgins is currently an SNL writer—was spotted on the picket line on Tuesday. 

Abbott Elementary

The writers room for season three of the Emmy-winning ABC sitcom was meant to begin on May 2, halting in tandem with the strike. “Abbott Elementary was supposed to go back to the room this week,” show writer Brittani Nichols, who penned the show’s season two finale, said in an interview with Democracy Now. “We are a show that writes while we air, so if this strike goes on for a significant period of time, our show will not come out on time. And that could change the amount of episodes, which people I’m sure will be very upset about. It could change the air date. It could change a lot of different things.”

Series creator and executive producer Quinta Brunson, who was spotted on the picket line in Los Angeles alongside Yellowjackets star Sammi Hanratty, tweeted: “I am a writer. I’m in the wga. I’m also on strike! I have no real power here other than to join my union in demanding fair compensation for writers!”

Yellowjackets

“Well, we had exactly one day in the Yellowjackets S3 writers’ room,” Ashley Lyle, who cocreated the Showtime drama, tweeted on Monday. “It was amazing, and creatively invigorating, and so much fun, and I’m very excited to get back to it as soon as the WGA gets a fair deal.” 

American Horror Story

Production on season 12 of FX’s anthology horror series, which will star Kim Kardashian opposite Emma Roberts, has halted because teamsters on the series refused to cross picket lines outside of Silvercup Studios in New York, WGA East member Kaitlin Fontana tweeted on Wednesday.

Unstable

The second season of Netflix’s comedy, starring real-life father and son Rob Lowe and John Owen Lowe, has been shut down, according to Deadline. Although the series had yet to receive an official greenlight from the streamer, six of the planned eight episodes for a sophomore installment had reportedly been written, with production planned for later this spring. As reported by the outlet, employees were informed earlier this week that production was pausing and they were being imminently laid off. The elder Lowe joined the line in Los Angeles to support the WGA cause, as reported by Vanity Fair.

Big Mouth

Reportedly six weeks into its eighth and final season, production on Netflix’s animated coming-of-age series shut down ahead of its expected August deadline.

Cobra Kai

“We hate to strike, but if we must, we strike hard,” series cocreator Jon Hurwitz, at work on his Netflix show’s sixth season, tweeted on Tuesday. “Pencils down in the Cobra Kai writers room. No writers on set.”

Night Court

As reported by Deadline, season two of NBC’s multi-cam revival will be suspended, although the staff was meant to resume production next week. 

Power Book III: Raising Kanan

Also per Deadline, the writers room for season three of Starz’s series has been closed.

The Talk

The CBS daytime talk show, which staffs WGA writers, will hit the pause button after airing previously-filmed episodes this week and part of next, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Expect reruns after that period.