Late-night comics return amid strike
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America's late-night TV comics returned to the air on Wednesday with dueling politicians, newly grown facial hair and expressions of sympathy for striking screenwriters whose labor dispute threw the shows into reruns for two months.
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The union for striking Hollywood writers cried foul on Thursday over late-night TV comic Jay Leno writing his own jokes for his return to the air from an eight-week hiatus forced by the walkout.
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With "American Idol" and Jay Leno back on the air in January, it may seem that all is right with television. But the industry is facing its worst labor crisis in two decades, a crippling writers strike that's reshaping the business of TV and threatening to permanently shift the viewing habits of millions of Americans.
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Fans of David Letterman can expect fresh Top Ten lists next week.  Worldwide Pants, the comedian's production company, reached an interim agreement Friday with the Writers Guild of America allowing The Late Show With David Letterman to return to the ...
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Fans wait outside the Ed Sullivan Theater for tickets to watch the first Late Show with David Letterman in New York on Jan. 2. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) When Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien of NBC and Jimmy Kimmel of ABC return to their late-night television homes tonight, their guests and audience members will face picket lines of [...].
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Sep. 18--A familiar and often jarring sound -- the clanking and grinding  of garbage trucks -- will make a welcome comeback this morning as Sacramento  County sanitation workers return to their jobs after a two-week strike.
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The Hollywood writer's strike has ended, but that leaves the question of when favorite shows will return to television
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Late-night TV comedian David  Letterman has reached a deal with the union representing  striking screenwriters that will let his show return to the air  next week with his writing staff, the union said on Friday.
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Comedy Centralâs Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the air Monday pointing barbs at their own management and at the striking union.
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Late-night TV hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien plan to cross picket lines to resume taping shows on January 2, nearly two months after the Hollywood writers strike forced them off the air, the NBC network said on Monday.
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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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Tycho: The actual writing of this strip was fairly quick, but there's an extended tangent about The Club that lends heft. You can download the podcast for today's comic here, and (as always) get a jump on the official announcements by subscribing to our tender feed. (CW)TB
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Now that he&#039;s no longer anchoring &quot;Nightline,&quot; Ted Koppel says he doesn&#039;t usually stay up late to watch it. &quot;My whole schedule has changed,&quot; he told The Associated Press on Monday. &quot;Now I get up at 6:30 in the morning, which wasn&#039;t something I used to do.&quot;
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The storied rivalry between Jay  Leno and David Letterman takes a new twist on Wednesday when  the two stars of U.S. late-night television return to the air  two months into a bitter strike by TV and film writers.
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Lights, camera, action  -  members of the Writers Guild of America were planning a return to after voting to end their strike on its 100th day, allowing Hollywood to jump-start stalled production of numerous TV sitcoms and dramas
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It's a blizzard of reruns through December. But thanks to the writers strike, there won't be much relief for your favorite fall shows even when January arrives.
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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 shows in which both the Iowa caucuses and the new facial hair on two of the hosts loomed large.