Well that is a question many writers are asking themselves. What agents can offer is contacts, introductions, sage advice and the benefit of experience, to both

Well that is a question many writers are asking themselves. What agents can offer is contacts, introductions, sage advice and the benefit of experience, to both writers and to studios, show runners etc. But eventually, agencies will always start to consolidate power, and start to act more like cartels, controlling the studios access to writers, and the writers access to studios. In the past, this has led to individual agents breaking away from an agency, and using their contacts on both sides to start something new, and more mutually beneficial. I believe Endeavour started out like this in a round about fashion. But over time, Endeavour has grown, consolidated power and has become the same poison it was once the antidote to. The WGA's new staffing system may well make the current agency model obsolete. And if that happens, agents themselves will have to go back to their roots and rediscover what their actual value is.