On This Season Of...

Welcome to another edition of the Fred&Dan Blog! Hope you’re ready for the gossip this week, in which HBO attempts to destroy a brand they’ve been working on for almost 40 years. (We still love you HBO, pls hire us)

In all seriousness before we get into today’s blog we wanted to address the current state of the writer’s strike.

SAGAFTRA (the actor’s guild) just voted to authorize a strike vote, which means if their contract isn’t agreed upon by June 30th they will also be on strike. And the DGA (director’s guild) seems to be following in the same path, especially after HBOMax (now just Max) got rid of credits in their descriptions and lumped everyone together as “creators.” 

Credits aren’t just about accolades, they also determine your pay and how you can potentially move forward in the industry. We as creatives are paid for our creative work and all creatives should be able to be recognized accordingly. Basically, what we want to stress the importance of is that credits and title is a type of currency in this industry. 

Back to our regular programming:

On this season of…

Just kidding! But Fred here to tell you all about some really exciting news we have going on over at Fred&Dan Productions. 

We’re revamping!

Janette and I have been doing a lot of thinking about what Fred&Dan Productions stands for and what we hope to continue to build and bake into our business. Our mission has always been to make people think in ways they’ve never done before. To spark creativity, and facilitate conversation in unconventional ways and we want this blog to evolve to be just that. A place where you can open up your email and have a bit of creativity to take with you into your day or week! 

In the spirit of our rebrand we decided to change the name of the blog and after a long and very thoughtful brainstorm session we settled on the incredibly creative, Fred&Dan Productions Blog!

I know, it’s groundbreaking. 

For all our loved ones who do like to get our updates on writing, building the business, and selling our scripts, don't worry those will be sprinkled in because this year is really turning out to be a big one! 

Before we part, we are concocting our next zine to be published this summer - if you’re interested in participating, feel free to reach out!