{"id":1923674,"date":"2023-05-03T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colbert-kimmel-fallon-late-night-shows-immediately-halt-due-to-screenwriter-strike\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:42:51","slug":"colbert-kimmel-fallon-late-night-shows-immediately-halt-due-to-screenwriter-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colbert-kimmel-fallon-late-night-shows-immediately-halt-due-to-screenwriter-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Late night shows by Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon stop due to screenwriter strike."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolbert-kimmel-fallon-late-night-shows-immediately-halt-due-to-screenwriter-strike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Late Night Shows Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers Cease Production Due to Writers&#8217; Strike<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greg-gutfeld-levels-stephen-colbert-for-mocking-fox-news-after-christmas-tree-arson\/\" title=\"Greg Gutfeld Levels Stephen Colbert For Mocking Fox News After Christmas Tree Arson\">late night shows hosted<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jimmy-fallon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/seth-meyers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Meyers<\/a> will cease production on Tuesday as a union of Hollywood screenwriters initiates a strike.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuesday-afternoon-update-biden-sends-troops-to-border-for-administrative-tasks-medical-journal-advocates-segregated-classes-writers-strike\/\" title=\"Biden deploys troops to border, medical journal supports segregated classes, writers go on strike.\">voted overwhelmingly earlier<\/a> this year to authorize a strike if the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade association that represents more than 350 studios, did not approve a new contract with increased minimum compensation and larger contributions to pension and health plans. Union members are prohibited from working on their shows as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h3>Impact on Late Night Shows<\/h3>\n<p>Colbert was scheduled to host Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Chita Rivera on Tuesday, while celebrities such as Chris Hayes and Michael J. Fox were scheduled to appear later in the week, according to a report from Deadline. Fallon was supposed to welcome Ken Jeong, Jennifer Lopez, and JJ Watt this week, while Kimmel was slated to host Dr. Phil and Ricky Gervais. The shows are instead expected to air reruns on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Production for shows such as \u201cReal Time With Bill Maher,\u201d \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d and \u201cLast Week Tonight With John Oliver\u201d is also expected to cease this week, according to a WGA memo recently obtained by The Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<h3>Reasons for the Strike<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThough our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colbert-kimmel-fallon-late-night-shows-immediately-halt-due-to-screenwriter-strike\/\" title=\"Late night shows by Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon stop due to screenwriter strike.\">negotiating committee began<\/a> this process intent on making a fair deal, the studios\u2019 responses have been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing,\u201d WGA said on social media, noting that six weeks of deliberations with firms such as Netflix, Amazon, Sony, and Disney under the AMPTP umbrella ultimately failed to produce a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers said on his Monday show that he supports the strike and wants his writers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-says-us-should-change-retirement-age-for-those-in-their-20s\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley says US should change retirement age for those in their 20s\">receive higher pay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job, they are entitled to fair compensation,\u201d he said, as recorded by Deadline. \u201cThey are entitled to make a living. I think it\u2019s a very reasonable demand that\u2019s being set out by the Guild. And I support those demands.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Impact on the Industry<\/h3>\n<p>The current strike occurs as the shift toward streaming contributes to diminished profits in television and cinema. WGA officials also cited the advent of artificial intelligence as a possible mechanism to increase work capacity for screenwriters, a phenomenon which could enable studios to decrease their headcounts and thereby provoked calls from the union to regulate material produced with the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The union previously said that firms have \u201cused the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writing from production, worsening working conditions for series writers at all levels.\u201d The share of writers working at the minimum standards established by the most recent WGA contract has risen substantially in recent years, producing a 23% median compensation decline when adjusted for inflation, even as series budgets increase.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late night shows hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers will cease production on Tuesday as a union of Hollywood screenwriters initiates a strike. Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted overwhelmingly earlier this year to authorize a strike if the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1923675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16091,14118,4793,5752,6692,8031,4522],"class_list":["post-1923674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-colbert","tag-fallon","tag-kimmel","tag-late","tag-night","tag-screenwriter","tag-strike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}