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Conan O'Brien
Sweet relief! Being one of the many who work late at night and absolutely rely on late-night television -- well, that or Sex and the City reruns -- I can't even begin to stress my disappointment when I learned that the WGA strike meant no more Conan or Leno. Though Conan fares better with late-night reruns thanks to his sketches, the idea of repeats sucked in general.
With the WGA strike not looking to end, NBC has announced that Conan O'Brien and Leno will come out their unplanned winter hibernation and return to the air on January 2nd.
Conan O'Brien and Leno Return January 2nd
NBC has announced that both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien will return to production and begin broadcasting shows without their writing staffs.
Both shows were immediately thrown into reruns the second the WGA strike began.
While both Leno and Conan support their writers, they must also consider their non-working production crews, who number greater than the writers.
"Now that the talks have broken down and there are no further negotiations scheduled, I feel it's my responsibility to get my 100 non-writing staff, which were laid off, back to work," Leno said in a statement. "We fully support our writers and I think they understand my decision."
For those of you who have been living in a cave the past few months, the WGA strike is negotiating how moneys should be divvied up off internet syndication. When a show gets purchased and downloaded on iTunes, a writer is looking for his/her cut.
While the strike is affecting both television and film, it is television that has taken the hardest hit.
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