Screen return for talk show hosts
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US talk show hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman are to make a comeback despite the writers' strike.
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Eight weeks after their writers went on strike and plunged their shows into reruns, Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan OâBrien returned to late-night television Wednesday with original episodes in which both the Iowa caucuses and the new facial hair on two of the hosts loomed large.
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Rick Kaplan, who was hired by CBS to turn around the ratings slide of its evening newscast with Katie Couric, has an opportunity to stage a comeback of his own.
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With talk shows returning to late night without their writers, is it time to dust off your favorite gags and submit them to the networks? In a word, no.
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There's a new stop in  town for celebrities on the talk show circuit, and the show's  host, Megan Mullally, has been helping to make sure that her  new talker isn't forgotten by A-listers looking to promote  their upcoming projects in the competitive, complex world of  talent booking.
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Robin Williams will be David Letterman's first guest upon the return of his "Late Show" on CBS Wednesday. The appearance of a Hollywood A-lister who can talk a mile a minute may be Letterman's way of quickly trying to draw a distinction between his show and his late-night rivals, who are without writers and may also have trouble booking major entertainers as guests.
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Prime-time comedian Drew Carey has signed on to serve as guest host for the first two segments of the CBS "Late Late Show" next week when the program returns for its first season without Craig Kilborn.
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Funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are going back to work at Comedy Central whether they have writers to come up with jokes or not.  "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and the "Colbert Report" will resume production Jan. 7, the network revealed ...
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Join others in a live chat to discuss the show as it returns for its fourth season.
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Following the lead of Jay Leno and Conan OâBrien, the late-night cable comedy duo will return in early January.
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The two biggest questions late-night hosts face when most of them return to the screen on Wednesday night are: How are they going to be funny without writers?
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Confusion surrounded presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's appearance on Jay Leno's show and Hillary Clinton was set to appear with David Letterman as TV's late-night funnymen prepared to return to the air Wednesday night.  Clinton was to join Robin...
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Some say talk is cheap. But not for the best-paid talk show hosts on television and radio.
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NBC announced that Jay Leno and Conan OâBrien will return to the air on Jan. 2, even if the writersâ strike has not been resolved.
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Television viewers welcomed late-night hosts with open arms for their first night back at work in two months because of a writers strike. Jay Leno's "Tonight" show on NBC was seen by 7.2 million viewers, or 43 percent more than what he had been averaging this season before the strike took him off the air Nov. 5, according to national ratings supplied by Nielsen Media Research.
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For one night, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel will solve the problem of booking guests during the writers' strike by appearing on each other's show.
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Wednesday nightâs episode of this PBS mini-series has one sequence that could be particularly helpful, or perhaps just frustrating, for current late-night talk show hosts.