TV's late-night hosts planned to return to their evening sketches and monologues by next week, reinstating the flow of topical humor silenced for five months by the newly ended Hollywood writers strike.
Bill Maher led the charge back to work by announcing early Wednesday that his HBO show"Real Time with Bill Maher" would be back on the air Friday. By mid-morning, the hosts of NBC's"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and"Late Night with Seth Meyers," ABC's"Jimmy Kimmel Live," and"The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" on CBS had announced they'd also return, all by Monday.
The strikes have had a"catastrophic" impact on late-night television viewing, according to the research firm Samba TV. Without Colbert, Fallon and Kimmel proving fresh, topical material, the broadcast networks have seen late-night viewership declines of between 40% and 50%, Ashwin Navin, Samba TV co-founder."It remains to be seen how late night will rebound to its previous relevance," he said.
Maher had delayed returning to his talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision that followed similar pauses byThe three-year agreement with studios, producers and streaming services includes significant wins in the main areas writers had fought for — compensation, length of employment, size of staffs and control of artificial intelligence — matching or nearly equaling what they had sought at the outset of the strike.
The guild also negotiated new residual payments based on the popularity of streaming shows, where writers will get bonuses for being a part of the most popular shows on Netflix, Max and other services, a proposal studios initially rejected. Many writers on picket lines had complained that they weren't properly paid for helping create heavily watched properties.
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