Union leaders representing striking Hollywood writers voted to endorse a deal with studios on Sunday.
The unanimous approval by the Writers Guild of America ends a three-month old strike, allowing writers to return to work by mid-week.
This comes a day after both sides finalized details of a settlement which included how writers should be paid for work distributed over the internet.
The union acknowledged the deal falls short in some areas, but emphasized gains made in the areas of new media.
For every dollar spent on a downloaded movie or television show that's been on the Internet for 24 days, 1.2 cents will now go to the writers, who will also get an annual pay raise of three per cent for the next three years.
"I wish we hadn't gone on strike but had we not, I suspect we would not have the deal we have today," Patrick Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West said at a press conference on Sunday.
John Bowman, chair of the guild's negotiating committee pointed to the cancellation of the ceremony for the Golden Globe awards as a contributing factor to the deal.
"Once (the CEOs) realized that the creative community was united in this particular strike, that SAG (the Screen Actors' Guild) was united, without creative talent in this town you can't produce anything," he said at the conference.
Picketing had become a near daily occurrence outside many studios in Los Angeles and New York.
The television industry had been hard hit by the strike, with most U.S. comedies and dramas shut down since mid-December. The walkout idled thousands of production professionals in Canada that rely on U.S. productions made in this country.
The 10,500 film and television writers who walked off the job on Nov. 5 are not expected to return to work on Wednesday because the east and west coast branches of the union opted to wait until individual members vote on the plan themselves.
Although studios can now restart various projections, some are wary of rushing too many into production for fear of a labour dispute with SAG.
