Late Night Shows All Going To Reruns Amid Writer’s Strike
It turns out that all late night shows have plans to go to reruns immediately amid the writer’s strike that is about to happen. Deadline shared the details about the plans and what shows you are going to miss. All shows aired as planned tonight, but at midnight that will all change. Don’t expect to see your favorite late night shows on Tuesday.
What Late Night Shows Are Affected?
Writers have agreed to strike, which means that some of your favorite shows won’t be airing. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Daily Show have all been affected by the writer’s strike.
Seth Meyers spoke out about the strike and he is supporting it. He said, “I love writing. I love writing for TV. I love writing this show. I love that we get to come in with an idea for what we want to do every day and we get to work on it all afternoon and then I have the pleasure of coming out here. No one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job, they are entitled to fair compensation. They are entitled to make a living. I think it’s a very reasonable demand that’s being set out by the guild. And I support those demands.”
Late-Night Shows To Shut Down Immediately After Strike Called https://t.co/8qw7g9th8t pic.twitter.com/boN3ieucHX
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 2, 2023
The Writer’s Strike
This will be the first writer’s strike in 15 years. The last one happened in 2007. The picketing is planned to start tomorrow afternoon. All late night shows that would normally have a show on Tuesday will instead air a repeat. It sounds like all late night talk shows have plans to stay in touch with each other and keep the same plan. This didn’t happen last time around.
Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers’ late-night shows will shut down production on Tuesday as Hollywood writers have agreed to go on strike. pic.twitter.com/qu8SVJ82tG
— Pop Base (@PopBase) May 2, 2023
There will actually be 11,500 unionized screenwriters headed to the picket lines on Tuesday. The Writer’s Guild of America gave a statement explaining a few details.
“The companies’ behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing. From their refusal to guarantee any level of weekly employment in episodic television, to the creation of a ‘day rate’ in comedy variety, to their stonewalling on free work for screenwriters and on AI for all writers, they have closed the door on their labor force and opened the door to writing as an entirely freelance profession. No such deal could ever be contemplated by this membership.”
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