Tonight is the biggest night for the two-month-old writers strike since the producers stomped away from the table in December. With no talks scheduled and anger rising on both sides, the late night hosts will return to the airwaves with new shows for the first time since the WGA went to the picket lines on Nov. 5. (Yeah, yeah, Carson Daly’s back already, but that barely counts.)
What’s going to make it really interesting is that CBS’ "Late Show With David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" will be staffed by writers under a special deal that Letterman struck with the WGA, while NBC’s "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and "Late Night With Conan O’Brien" and ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live" will all be trying to entertain us without professional comedy scribes. Letterman and Ferguson may also have an easier time booking big-name star guests who don’t want to […]
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