David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. The Writers Strike’s Late Night Battleground
While NBC continues to mull over the possibility of reviving “The Tonight Show” with guest-hosts, David Letterman has ensured that won’t be happening to his show anytime soon: He’s paying his staff out of his own pocket through at least the end of the year.
A commenter on the top story notes this further about Letterman, who owns both his show and the one that follows (so consider it interesting but unconfirmed):
“On the other side of the coin, Craig Ferguson was pretty adamant about going on without writers and actually said that he hoped he could prove the show would work without writers, so when the strike was over he wouldn’t have to hire them back.
“Guess that’s not going to happen because today the show found out Dave is shutting it down.”
Here’s Letterman’s writers’ blog, which offers you jokes for free.
And, for your edification, a top strike-related blog.
(By the way, I Googled pro-AMPTP and got a blog site declaring: “I haven’t been able to find any good pro-AMPTP blogs.”) Which suggests AMPTP needs to hire a good writer or two to punch up their sites.
And more: Fox will complete episodes of “Family Guy” without creator/writer/actor Seth MacFarlane’s input. Irony: The show was resurrected after its cancellation due to its record-breaking DVD sales. Of course, due to lame home-video royalties, the writers didn’t get much for their role in salvaging the show.