Talent Agencies Are Exploding Onto Every Scene In Hollywood (And Beyond)

As agencies try to get into the production business during this time of streaming, not everyone is excited by the multi-tentacled operations. “The Writers Guild of America sounded an alarm in March to thousands of its members nationwide, arguing that agencies face a conflict of interest when they step into the producing arena. The union posed the question: Will an agency’s fiduciary responsibility be to the staff writer it represents, or to the TV series that it owns and on which the writer is employed?”