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On Friday, as everyone knows, SAG-AFTRA and the studios agreed to stave off their deadline and continue negotiating a renewal of the union’s TV/theatrical agreements until July 12. In the end, according to everything I’ve been hearing, it all came down to a couple tactical and practical issues. The putative expiration of the deal two days ago—without a contract in place, heading into a holiday weekend—would have forced a strike on July 4th weekend, a time when union members and the media are in vacation mode. (In fact, any Friday night would be suboptimal. Hence the extension to July 12, a Wednesday.)
