{"id":64950,"date":"2023-09-01T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64950"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:37:20","slug":"ridiculousness-writers-want-dyrdek-to-pay-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64950","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculousness Writers Want Dyrdek To Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64951\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/robdmtv.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/robdmtv.png 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/robdmtv-200x112.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like the rest of us, it seems the writers behind the &#8220;unscripted&#8221; reality show <em><strong>Ridiculousness<\/strong><\/em>, are tired of getting played by <strong>Rob Dyrdek<\/strong>. And to get what they deserve they&#8217;re pushing to unionize the team, according to a story on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/08\/mtvs-ridiculousness-writers-unionize-with-wga-1235361272\/\"><strong>Deadline<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2018Unscripted\u2019 television is very much scripted and our writing staff is fed up with being abused and underpaid by <strong>Paramount<\/strong>, <strong>MTV<\/strong> and <strong>Rob Dyrdek<\/strong>. We produce the most profitable show currently on TV and yet we are paid 60% less than WGA writers that work for&nbsp;<em>America\u2019s Funniest Home Videos<\/em>,\u201d writer <strong>Ally Maynard<\/strong> told <em>Deadline<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We wish them luck, however, MTV (and Dyrdek co.) will probably just cancel the show (or the entire network for that matter) rather than pay the writers what they&#8217;re worth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/08\/mtvs-ridiculousness-writers-unionize-with-wga-1235361272\/\">Deadline<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the rest of us, it seems the writers behind the &#8220;unscripted&#8221; reality show Ridiculousness, are tired of getting played by Rob Dyrdek. And to get what they deserve they&#8217;re pushing to unionize the team, according to a story on Deadline. \u201c\u2018Unscripted\u2019 television is very much scripted and our writing staff is fed up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64953,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64950\/revisions\/64953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}