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After 148 days, the 2023 WGA Strike officially came to an end at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday. It was the second longest on record, just five days short of tying the mark set from March 7 to August 7, 1988. This means writers can write, pitch, and sell projects once again as the guild has lifted the order barring work for any struck (or now unstruck) company. A similar deal with producers and studios was reached on Sunday night.

The end of the strike means talk shows will be able to start their programs up quickly.

Here is what you need to know:

HBO is the first one back with Real Time on Friday and Last Week Tonight on Sunday.
NBC mentioned that The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Myers returning on Monday. Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live will also return on Monday. The following week, several daytime shows are expected to return including Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, and excellent news for Nick--CBS’ The Talk will be back.

Comedy Central announced The Daily Show is returning October 16 with guest hosts (Trevor Noah departed before the strike started.)

Finally, for those who are curious what are the exact details, here is a PDF detailing the 94 page agreement:
https://www.wgacontract2023.org/wgacontract/files/memorandum-of-agreement-for-the-2023-wga-theatrical-and-television-basic-agreement.pdf

Thanks for the news summary bigzman.

Hope the Late Night Lineups page https://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html comes back soon.

With the momentum built over that five day period, only time will tell whenever the actor's strike ends.

Be prepared for a lot of musicians to be interviewed and rocking each of the shows, figuring that the actors wouldn't want to cross their picket lines at any point.
Basically, let's see how it goes and let's see how the ratings turn out over the next few months. It's the least that regular viewers can do.

And reality show "stars" like Housewives of ______ and Bachelor/Bachelorette and even worse Tiktok and Instagram "stars" and politicians.

I'm looking forward to the monologues.

I am sure you are

Comedians? I know not the ones who are in the actors union but I don't think every comedian is a part of SGA.