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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Striking Hollywood writers could  return to work as early as Monday for the first time in three  months if they embrace a contract deal that union leaders are  said to endorse, according to a union-affiliated blog site on  Friday.
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Arts & entertainment: Strike which has paralysed the entertainment industry could end as early as the weekend
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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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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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With a tentative deal reached in the writer's strike, it's all over but the voting. Guild members can return to work immediately after the vote, but that process could take days
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Film and television writers voted  decisively on Tuesday to lift their 100-day-old strike against  major studios and return to work on Wednesday, formally ending  the worst labor clash to hit Hollywood in 20 years.
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NEW YORK  - Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the airwaves without their striking writers Monday with similarly in-depth but divergent explorations of the walkout that had silenced the comics for more than two months.
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Hollywood writers finally returned  to work on Wednesday with a brighter future in new media but  facing uncertainty about whether their 14-week strike will cost  them lucrative TV work.
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Similarities kept cropping up as five late-night talk shows returned to the air.
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Striking Hollywood writers could be back at work as early as Monday for the first time in three months if they embrace terms of a tentative contract deal that union leaders are expected to present them this weekend.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike. Membership meetings will be held Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, said Patric Verrone, president of the guild's West Coast branch.
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A day after Hollywood writers voted to end a strike that crippled the television industry, broadcast networks on Wednesday began ramping up to bring sidelined comedy and drama favorites back to prime time.
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The talk-show host discusses going back to work during the writers' strike, the new threat to TV and another New Year's Eve
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Germany's most revered comedian Harald Schmidt made a spectacular return to late night television on Thursday, exactly a year after his abrupt departure from a rival network sent its share price plunging.
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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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Jimmy Kimmel will join NBC's late-night hosts in returning with new shows Jan. 2 in the midst of the Hollywood writers strike, ABC said Tuesday. Kimmel, along with Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and other hosts, had honored the strike that began Nov. 5. He said it was a difficult decision to resume work without writers, but he wants to save the jobs of other staffers on the show.