https://deadline.com/2023/06/writers-strike-late-night-comedy-writers-face-oblivion-if-union-loses-1235425488/

“A key fight in this strike is over the future of Appendix A in an industry dominated by streamers.” In television, he noted, Appendix A in the guild’s contract covers almost everything that isn’t a movie or an episodic TV show, including late-night, soap operas, quiz and variety shows and all other non-dramatic shows. ... A world where the already-short 13-week cycles are replaced by week-to-week or day-to-day contracts is a world where writers don’t have enough job security to get approved for an apartment in the cities where these shows are made.