Comment on Mayim Bialik Declines to Host ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ Amid Strikes, Replaced by Ken Jennings

• AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it really nothing to hold against him though, when the person he's replacing did join the strike?

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  • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The person he’s replacing is a member of SAG AFTRA (and maybe also WGA?) and he’d already been hired as her replacement. She’s not going on sympathy strike.

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    • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I...don't see how that changes anything I said. It still sounds like Jennings is replacing someone who is striking.

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      • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A scab is hired to replace someone who is striking. He had previously (as in years) been hired to replace Bialik when she was unavailable. Due to her commitments to the strike, she is unavailable. He, not being a member of the WGA or SAG, has no commitments to the strike, but does have commitments to his contract, which states he is to replace Bialik when she is unavailable. Does that make sense?

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  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    She’s literally an actor and thus a member of the union that is striking. He is neither.

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  • gowan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    She is part of SAG. SAG is striking so she needs to in order to remain in the union. Jennings is NOT part of SAG and there’s no reason for him to join the strike as that would harm all the other staff on the show who would be out of work.

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    • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The important part is that he is already an employee there who does this job already. If he wasn’t and he was hired to do the job because he’s not union he would be a scab.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why is Jennings not part of SAG? I find it hard to believe the union is cool with a host not being a member unless they don’t care about game show hosts in general, which is on them.

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      • gowan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        He is not an actor. SAG- Screen Actors Guild

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• Overzeetop@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If an accountant leaves his profession to become a commercial pilot, does he get a pass to fly when the rest of the pilots go on strike?

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• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hosting a TV show is totally an acting gig and I absolutely hold it against those who side with management during a strike.

  Granted I already dislike him for additional reasons, but even if I didn't hate him already I'd be disappointed by this move.

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  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not according to the union’s own rules, it’s not. You can have your reasons for disliking him, but at least base them in facts.

    At any rate, this dumb argument is a distraction from the real enemy, which is greedy fucking studio execs who so all be run out on a rail. They could end this strike tomorrow without being a penny poorer for it.

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    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I'm not in SAG and not bound by their rules on what to consider actors.

      I'm saying a host "is an actor" in the same sense Rob Gordon says bass guitar and lead guitar are the same job.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You mean they’re all performers?

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  • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean I’m pretty sure SAG directly disagrees with you about that as they don’t cover presenters.

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    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I never said dude was in the same union. I said he should be showing showbiz solidarity.

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      • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You said you considered him an actor - the union that is striking does not. That seems pretty obviously relevant.

        Does that extend to the gaffers and everyone else who would get fired? I don’t really think you understand the details of this. Hollywood unions have done a very good job of insulating themselves from retaliation after strikes - everyone has to do it so it’s pretty hard to hold striking against anyone. Plus whatever is baked into contracts. Jennings would be striking alone, unprotected. It’s kind of weird that people are holding him to this when the union isn’t.

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