The Writers Guild America and the agents are talking again in their brutal freeze-off and starve dispute.

Besides the big mess of unformed media policy which the Morrison government will have to face, it will do battle with an ABC which claims a unique halo of public trust.

Not just one year -the Libs are promising that Auntie's evolution will be dominated by expanding cuts for the next three years.

This weekend hopes were dashed and the public drama of politics became strange and unpredictable. Here is David Tiley's early take on how it will impact the screen sector.