CBS’ ” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert“ABC’s” Jimmy Kimmel Live! ” and NBC’s “ The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ” was one of the first shows to go off the air when the writers’ strike began on May 2, and will now be one of the first to return on Monday night.
Comedian John Oliver reacted to the strike for the first time, jubilantly returning to HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” Sunday night to express his full support for the strike.
Oliver jovially recounted the past five months before turning serious, calling the strike “an extremely difficult time” for everyone in the industry.
“To be clear, this strike is happening for good reason. Workers in our industry have been severely squeezed in recent years,” Oliver said. “So, the Writers Guild went on strike and luckily won. But it took a lot of people to make huge sacrifices to achieve that goal.”
“I’m also outraged that it took the studios 148 days to reach a deal that they could have proposed on (expletive) day one,” Oliver said. He added that he hoped the writers’ contract would provide leverage with other entertainment industry associations, as well as striking autoworkers and employees in other industries, to negotiate better deals.
Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns HBO, is one of the studios on the other side of the writers’ and actors’ strike.
The network’s late-night host will be rewarded later Monday.
Colbert will feature astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson in his first show. Kimmel will host Arnold Schwarzenegger. Matthew McConaughey will be sitting on Fallon’s couch.
All the presenters are sure to talk about the strike in their monologues.
“See you on Monday, and then every day after that!” Enthusiastic Colbert said in an Instagram video last week at the Ed Sullivan Theater, which was packed with his writers and other staff members gathering for the first time since spring.
The organizers haven’t been completely idle either. They teamed up to create a podcast, ” 5th Commando,” during the strike.
this Writers allowed to return to work Last week, the Writers Guild of America reached an agreement on a three-year deal with a coalition of the industry’s largest studios, streaming services and production companies.
Union leaders hailed the deal as a clear victory on issues such as pay, staff size and staff use. AI It made the few months of rest worth it. The writers themselves will vote on the contract in a week-long vote that begins Monday.
Meanwhile, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists will begin negotiations with the same organization, the Motion Picture and Television Producers Alliance, for the first time since their formation. Join writers on historic double strike July 14th.
The actors are striking over many of the same issues as the writers, and SAG-AFTRA leaders said they will closely monitor the benefits and compromises of the WGA agreement, but stressed that their demands will remain the same as when the strike began.
The deal was reached and the strike ended just five days after writers and studios resumed talks, although an attempt to restart talks a month ago collapsed after several meetings.
The guest list for late-night shows will be significantly limited. If movies and shows are produced for the studios targeted by the strike, their bread and butter, the actors who come to promote the projects, will not be allowed to appear.
But exceptions abound. For example, McConaughey made an appearance with Fallon to promote his children’s book “Just Because.”
SAG-AFTRA has been awarded provisional agreement Actors are allowed to participate in many productions, and with that comes the actor’s right to publicly promote the work.
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