You may have to go to bed without your JAY LENO or DAVID LETTERMAN fix for awhile. Their shows have scheduled repeats for this week as a result of the writers' strike that began yesterday. Same goes for Comedy Central's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The major late-night shows are recycling old episodes because they rely on current events for material.
ELLEN DEGENERES didn't report to work yesterday to tape her talk show, which airs during the daytime, in support of her writers. The fate of her show beyond today is uncertain for now. Today's episode was filmed before the strike.DeGeneres wasn't the only TV star to support the writers' cause. JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS and 30 Rock star TINA FEY joined strikers in California and New York, respectively, while Leno offered doughnuts to writers at NBC's Burbank studio.
The CBS drama Cane was forced to abandon a California café where it was filming due to noise caused by strikers in the area. Production was moved to a nearby CBS lot.The writers are asking for a share of revenue from Internet programming, but say they have dropped a proposal to receive more money from DVD sales. Still, the chief negotiator for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers doesn't believe a compromise will be reached anytime soon.
Actors should have an interest in how this disagreement will be resolved because, as Julia Louis-Dreyfus noted yesterday, their contract expires next June.
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