Stewart, Colbert returning to the air

Thu Dec 20, 6:51 PM ET
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.

Both late-night shows were shuttered after the Hollywood writers strike began seven weeks ago. The comedy duo are the latest late-night hosts to announce their return to the air while the ongoing writers strike continues to devastate much television and film production. Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel have all recently said that they will resume their programs on Jan. 2 with or without their writing staffs.

On Friday, leaders of striking television writers plan to meet with David Letterman's production company in an attempt to reach a separate deal that could return the "Late Show" to the air with its writing staff.

But "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" rely far more on scripted material than those shows, which are more centered around interviews and musical guests.

In a joint statement, Stewart and Colbert said: "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071220/ap_en_tv/hollywood_labor&printer=1;_ylt=AlDfGfp7Fbu36reySyIw0xK2GL8C

material that they've missed in the last few weeks--breaks my heart.

They have enough money and fame.

Do the right thing and not the convenient thing. Heck the Lakota in North Dakota need you guys. Go do some protesting there. You could move mountains.

xoxo

...merge the two shows until the strike is over?

without breaking the Writer's Strike, if indeed it's not settled yet?

kosher to come back and do their own writing..I'm having trouble understanding this..sorry, not purposefully obtuse.

and non writing staff, i have no idea if they made their decision after seeing the other late night shows decide they need to get back on th air. so i guess i'm saying--i don't know. I would like to see them all sty off the air until the strike is settled, i miss TDS and Colbert so much but the writers should get whats fair.

sure I didn't miss any clues. They did say that's all they're going to talk about it now so all will be revealved. :)

I sure miss 'em, but I hope it doesn't hurt the writers' strike.

If the stike isn't setted by then. I can hold out

we probably don't, maybe thye're only coming back for one night just to say "Hey" and them some rant about shift keys and Mahjong tiles and what not. :D

maybe they will copy everything from du

the Hollywood Reporter has a better story on this
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i074b6c9d80a4405042f632936c10b3fb?pn=1

Basically they will probably load up the shows with non-scripted guest interviews.

The article says the shows won't be the formats we know and love, but they will do their best not to break WGA strike rules.

not to find a way around it.