Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have signaled they’re exploring ways to end the stalemate with the major studios over the guild’s feature-primetime deal.

With commercials contract talks recessed this week, SAG and the companies are expected to continue conducting back-channel efforts to find a compromise. Negotiations between SAG and the AMPTP cratered on Feb. 19 over the issue of when SAG’s contract would expire, with the guild pushing for a two-year deal and the congloms insisting on a three-year term.

In a recent message to supporters, the Unite for Strength faction noted that SAG negotiators must now balance the guild’s two biggest contract negotiations as the commercials contract launched Feb. 23, less than 36 hours after SAG’s national board rejected the AMPTP’s “last, best, final” offer. UFS, part of the moderate coalition that gained control of the board last fall, said the commercials talks had been scheduled a year ago on the assumption that the feature-primetime contract would have long since been concluded.

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