CARSON DALY says he had no choice but to resume production of his late-night show Last Call with Carson Daly to save the jobs of his non-writing staff members, after NBC issued him an ultimatum in the wake of the writers' strike. He tells the Los Angeles Times, quote, "It was, 'Put a new show on December 3rd or 75 people are fired. What's your answer?'" Daly said that order was passed down by his "immediate bosses" at NBC, but did not elaborate further. Daly was the first late-night host to go back on the air during the ongoing writers' strike, which currently is in its eighth week.
NBC hosts JAY LENO and CONAN O'BRIEN and ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL will return without their writers on January 2nd. JON STEWART of The Daily Show and STEPHEN COLBERT of The Colbert Report will air new episodes on Comedy Central beginning January 7th, also without the aid of their writing staffs.
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