Jeremy Steiner just wrote to remind me that on December 20, I posted the following on this site…
Folks keep asking me how long I think the strike is going to last. The other night over dinner with some writers, I made what everyone seemed to think was a strong case: All logic-based indicators would, I think, point to the AMPTP trying to make a deal on or around February 1 and not, as some have suggested, keeping the WGA out until next June or so.
If the reports are correct — and I'm still not willing to presume for sure that they are, or that a last second complication won't arise — then history will show that they made a deal on or around February 1.