{"id":1128,"date":"2007-12-28T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/david-letterman-strikes-a-deal-with-the-writers\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T14:03:00","slug":"david-letterman-strikes-a-deal-with-the-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/david-letterman-strikes-a-deal-with-the-writers.html","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman strikes a deal with the writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R3dYYhbDusI\/AAAAAAAABAU\/joHaqixcFcY\/s1600-h\/davidletterman.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R3dYYhbDusI\/AAAAAAAABAU\/joHaqixcFcY\/s400\/davidletterman.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117978232.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> and the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/28\/business\/media\/28cnd-strike.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Times<\/a><\/i> report that David Letterman\u2019s production company, Worldwide Pants, has struck a deal with the Writers Guild, so that he and his protege Craig Ferguson can go back on the air next week with their full complement of comedy writers.  Meanwhile, Jay Leno, Conan O\u2019Brien and all the others will have to make do without scripts or cue cards of any substance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny.  My wife and I don\u2019t get cable, and we almost never watch TV, but for six months this year we were living between apartments in my uncle\u2019s basement suite, and <i>he<\/i> gets cable, so my wife watched a lot of prime-time TV while <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/hey-i-have-recording-of-that.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I watched the talk shows<\/a> to get a sense of what the hot topics of the day were, how certain films were being promoted, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>And then <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/if-blogging-is-little-light-these-days.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">we moved<\/a> to our new apartment \u2026 at almost the exact same time that the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/angels-demons-hit-by-writers-strike.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">writers<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/how-writers-strike-may-affect-star-trek.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">strike<\/a> began.  So all the talk shows have been in re-runs while we\u2019ve been settling into our new home, and it doesn\u2019t feel like I\u2019ve \u201cmissed\u201d anything in all this time.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess that will change, now.  Ah well, back to life as it was.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety and the New York Times report that David Letterman\u2019s production company, Worldwide Pants, has struck a deal with the Writers Guild, so that he and his protege Craig Ferguson can go back on the air next week with their full complement of comedy writers. 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