As Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel plan their return to late-night, their respective networks mostly were keeping mum on plans for the hosts'...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Robin Williams will be David Letterman's first guest upon the return of his "Late Show" on CBS Wednesday. The appearance of a Hollywood A-lister who ...
People | Stephen M. Silverman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The welcome mat is out for George Clooney, Keira Knightley and Julia Roberts - as well as the other Golden Globe nominees. NBC says that the Jan. 13 ...
New York Times | Brooks Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
A dozen striking screenwriters gathered in the bar at the Hotel Bel Air not long ago to decompress after another day on the picket line. Less than 10 ...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Hollywood studios said Friday that striking writers have now lost more in salary and benefits than they had hoped to gain by walking off the job. In ...
New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Hollywood's glamour machine has gotten stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next month's Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Hollywood writers won the first PR round of this self-defeating strike with some amusing YouTube videos. Then the studios responded by hiring prof...
Baltimore Sun | Chris Emery | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Makeup artists at HD stations with big budgets use airbrushes to apply specially formulated cosmetics. Their makeup contains no silicon or mica becaus...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
For Carson Daly, the phrase "the show must go on" has taken on a whole new significance. "An ultimatum was put in front of me," Daly told the Los Ange...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
To prepare for a prolonged writers strike, television networks have stockpiled a gladiator battle, a lie-detector game, a remade "Password," a celebri...
AP | Jocelyn Noveck | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Attention, presidential candidates: Not to disrupt your holiday plans, but if you have any cringe-inducing mistakes, insensitive jokes or outright hyp...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Jessica Bendinger, the writer of hit movies including "Bring it On" and "Stick It," has joined with fellow writers to launch a series of YouTube video...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
David Letterman doesn't even need writers to have fun with this one. The late-night comic's representatives met with striking writers on Friday in an...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Leaders of striking television writers plan to meet Friday with David Letterman's production company in an attempt to reach a separate deal that could...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network...
New York Times | EDWARD WYATT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The late-night talk show hosts are returning. But the stars are not yet ready to come out for them. Uncertainty over whether many of Hollywood's bigg...
Los Angeles Times | Jay A. Fernandez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The personal is political, as they say, and at times of labor unrest, the professional becomes even more so. In this roiling tempest of competing inte...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Jimmy Kimmel will join NBC's late-night hosts in returning with new shows Jan. 2 in the midst of the Hollywood writers strike, ABC said Tuesday. Kimm...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Two of Hollywood's most glamorous events are now caught up in the entertainment industry's ugliest labor dispute in two decades. The Writers Guild o...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien's late-night shows will return to the air with fresh episodes on January 2 after two months of repeats due to the writers'...
Wall Street Journal | Rebecca Dana and Sam Schechner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In moves that are likely to complicate the writers' strike as it enters its seventh week, most late-night shows are plotting to return to the airwaves...
New York Times | David Carr | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Golden Globe nominations were announced on Thursday, glimmering tributes to the likes of Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and Cate Blanchett. But on t...
Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and ...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki FInke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
UPDATED THROUGHOUT: Sources tell me the Writers Guild Of America is intending to grant David Letterman's independent production company Worldwide Pant...
Variety | Josef Adalian | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
With latenight ratings continuing to plunge, the betting in network circles is that several hosts will be back on the air by Jan. 7, if not sooner. N...
The Hollywood Reporter | Kimberly Nordyke and Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media