This was an era before modern-day dating apps, he points out it was worth a try. He was writing for My Name Is Earl at the time, and egged on by a few fellow singletons, he decided to look for a silver lining in a potentially grueling strike. The two originally met in the fall of 2007 at a singles-themed picket that Covington organized. Covington sports a bushy beard, tattoos, and a T-shirt that says, “If my wife can settle, then so can the AMPTP”-referring to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the organization that represents the industry’s studios. Traub wears a white sash with the word “BRIDE” ironically slung across her fuschia blazer. A number of people gather on a windy corner in front of Fox Studio’s Galaxy Gate, holding up their picket signs to make a tunnel for the couple to run through. Less than a week into the 2023 writers strike, they’ve invited friends and colleagues to celebrate their 10th anniversary on the exact spot where they met and later got engaged. “Anytime I write something slightly close, they never want my character to be a TV writer,” Traub says with a sigh. That’s exactly what happened to Stacy Traub and Hunter Covington during the 2007 writers strike, but no studio executives have been interested in bringing that scenario to the screen. It’s the perfect premise for a rom-com. Two TV writers looking for love find it in the most unlikely place: on a picket line, striking with their union.

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