Hollywood writers begin strike, late-night shows go dark

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Late-night TV shows including “The Tonight Show” and “The Daily Show” will begin airing reruns Tuesday as striking screenwriters prepared to picket after last-minute negotiations failed to avert Hollywood’s first work stoppage in 15 years.

Along with NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” and Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live” all made plans for reruns through the week.

Demonstrations in Los Angeles are planned outside the offices of Walt Disney Co., Netflix, Amazon, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, CBS and Sony. The guild is seeking more compensation on the front-end of deals. Many of the back-end payments writers have historically profited by – like syndication and international licensing – have been largely phased out by the onset of streaming. More writers — roughly half — are being paid minimum rates, an increase of 16% over the last decade. The use of so-called mini-writers rooms has soared.

During the 2007 strike, late-night hosts eventually returned to the air and improvised material. Jay Leno wrote his own monologues, a move that angered union leadership.Seth Meyers, a WGA member who said he supported the union’s demands, prepared viewers for re-runs while lamenting the hardship a strike entails.

 

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