Lead to Letterman, One Night a Week
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With help from "CSI," "Late Show With David Letterman" is clearly faring better than Jay Leno's "The Tonight Show" on Mondays.
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Television broadcaster CBS Corp. said  on Monday it extended its contract with comedian David  Letterman for his popular "Late Show" series through the fall  of 2010.
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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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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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David Letterman paid tribute to Johnny Carson on Monday by telling his jokes.
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"Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" will be back with their writers airing joke-filled new hours starting Wednesday, the shows' production company, Worldwide Pants, announced Friday.
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US TV host David Letterman reaches a deal with striking writers that will allow him to return to the air in January.
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For the first time since televisionâs late-night shows returned to the air last week, David Letterman was able to nose out Jay Leno in the ratings. It was just for one show, Monday night, and Mr. Lettermanâs lead was not sizable, but Mr. Leno had won the first three nights. Their competition resumed last Wednesday, when most of the late-night hosts came back after supporting the writersâ strike for two months. Mr. Leno is working without his writing staff, which is still on strike against his âTonight Showâ on NBC, while Mr. Letterman, above, was able to return with writers to his CBS show because of a separate deal his production company made with the Writers Guild of America. Mr. Letterman has also been able to book the normal roster of movie-star guests; on Monday night he had Tom Hanks, while Mr. Leno had the upstart Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. In the overnight ratings, measuring the countryâs 65 largest cities, Mr. Letterman had a 4 rating on Monday to Mr. Lenoâs 3.8. (Each point is worth 787,659 households.) But in their showsâ first half-hour, when Mr. Leno is performing a monologue over the opposition of the writersâ guild, he still beat Mr. Letterman, with a 4.5 rating to a 4.3. CBSâs thin victory margin continued on the 12:35 a.m. shows, where Craig Ferguson enjoyed a rare ratings victory over NBCâs Conan OâBrien, with a 1.9 rating to a 1.8 for Mr. OâBrien.
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David Letterman brought his late-night show to Marines serving in Iraq on Friday, loosening up the Camp Taqaddum crowd with the line, "Anybody here from out of town?"
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THURSDAY&#39;S rare guest appearance of shock- jock Howard Stern powered David Letterman to an even rarer ratings win over archrival Jay Leno.
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Robin Williams will be David Letterman's first guest upon the return of his "Late Show" on CBS Wednesday.
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Conan O&#39;Brien is getting his chance to move up in the world. Or at least into an earlier timeslot. On Monday, Jay Leno announced that he had selected O&#39;Brien to take over his Tonight Show gig when he steps down in 2009.
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It's too soon to tell whether the  laughs he got from his top-10 list on Monday night will  translate into votes, but John Kerry's appearance on CBS' "Late  Show with David Letterman" made for great ratings.
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Late-night television comedian David  Letterman has extended his contract with the CBS network in a  deal that will keep his "Late Show" on the network through the  fall of 2010, the broadcaster announced on Monday.
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From the home office at  the Ed Sullivan Theater: David Letterman is staying at CBS for  another four years.
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For David Letterman fans, it may have been the kindest cut of all: His beard is history. The late-night funnyman had the bushy beard he grew while off the air during the strike by the Writers Guild of America shaved Monday on his "Late Show." One barber buzzed the beard with an electric razor; the next one lathered him up and finished the job with a straight razor.