Paradigm has reached an agreement with the Writers Guild of America, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The pact, which runs through April 2025, is based on the standard franchise agreement offered by the WGA, with a few key gains for Paradigm: Packaging fees will be allowed until Dec.
31, 2021 (the longest extension an agency has attained yet) and it can own 10 percent (up from 5 percent) of an affiliated production entity.
Paradigm so far has no production affiliate, but its packaged series include The Masked Singer, Black-ish, Grown-ish, The Chi, NCIS: Los Angeles, Evil, Why Women Kill and The Good Fight.