Writers Guild of America
Organization in TV & Film
Writers Guild of America has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Mayim BialikActress, neuroscientist and host of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Bialik said that she returned to acting after her second child because she needed health insurance.
“Do you know the reason that I started acting again after having my second child? I needed health insurance”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck Lorre (Oct 20, 2026) · Listen from 53:42
Chuck LorreProducer of The Big Bang Theory and other sitcoms
Lorre said that he moved into primetime television specifically to gain Writers Guild health insurance and residuals, which animation lacked.
“And I desperately wanted to get into the Writers Guild. So the only path of the Writers Guild was to write for primetime”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck Lorre (Oct 20, 2026) · Listen from 49:22
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
Episodes
Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck LorreMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 20, 2026 · 57 min
Chuck Lorre tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen about his childhood addiction, colitis, a decade in Scientology, writing the Ninja Turtles theme, and his route into sitcoms.