New York CNN —The Writers Guild of America and Hollywood studios have agreed to meet on Friday to resume negotiations for the first time since the writers went on strike in a landmark labor action that has crippled the entertainment industry for more than 100 days. “We expect the AMPTP to provide responses to WGA proposals,” the WGA wrote in a statement to its members. The strike will push back fall television premieres and late night television shows haven’t aired new episodes since May. The longest writers’ strike on record stretched for 154 days in 1988. In an August 4 statement, the WGA claimed AMPTP leaked parts of their confidential meeting to the press.

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