What shows are coming back when?
The WGA strike is over, so when are WGA-covered shows like The Late Show and The Tonight Show coming back?
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Jimmy Kimmel (Kevin Winter/Getty Images), Jimmy Fallon (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images), John Oliver (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation), Stephen Colbert (Matthew Eisman/Getty Images) Image: The A.V. Club
The Writers Guild Of America’s strike against the AMPTP finally came to an end this week, with the studios caving to a lot of the WGA’s demands—including seemingly tall orders like getting viewership data from streaming services, minimum sizes for writers’ rooms, and protections against AI. That means a lot of formerly struck television productions can start to return and get back to some version of normal, including the late night talk shows.
That being said, the SAG-AFTRA strike is still going on, so actors are still on the picket lines fighting the AMPTP for some much-needed wins of their own, which means—as of right now—most scripted television still has no return date in sight.
Read on to see which shows are coming back when.
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Based on seeing Drew just start up without writers, it seems like the rest could get going very quickly? (No guarantees on whether they’ll be good, of course.)
Are folks really checking for the return date of talk shows with bated breath?
Who are these people that apparently watch 10 screens 24 hours a day just for visual entertainment and have nothing else to view?
Now for the important question.
Twisted Metal season 2, when? I probably wouldn’t notice that I was watching reruns of these talk shows if they didn’t include specific dates.
It takes some big brass ovaries to a whole slideshow where four of the shows are coming back on the same day.
This might be the weirdest thing they’ve ever turned into a slide show here.
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When is The AV Club going to win the Pulitzer for this kind of hard-hitting investigative reporting?ProPublica wouldn’t touch this topic with a ten-foot pole. Kudos all around.