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Seth Meyers, left, and Jimmy Fallon. The late-night hosts said they each would fund a week of pay for their staffs out of their own pocket. Employees of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” will continue to be paid for at least some duration of the WGA strike. After late-night TV became the first casualty when the walkout by Hollywood writers began Tuesday, staff of the shows were informed that they would receive at least three weeks of wages while production on the programs...

Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are stepping in to pay the salaries of their crews for at least one week now that the Writers Guild of America strike has brought late-night TV (and a whole lot of other productions in Hollywood) to a halt. A source close to The Tonight Show tells Rolling Stone that NBC will pay The Tonight Show’s non-striking staff for two weeks, after which Fallon will cover salaries for a third week. Healthcare coverage for staffers will be available through the end of September, as well....

When Hollywood writers went on strike in 2007, the late night shows were forced to go dark for two months. During the hiatus, Jay Leno famously delivered doughnuts via motorcycle to the picket lines, and Jimmy Kimmel and other hosts paid staff out of pocket. “The strike basically wiped out all of my savings,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host told The Hollywood Reporter for a retrospective on the strike’s 10th anniversary. The late night shows eventually returned to the air; David Letterman even made his own deal with the studios...

Let’s call it “silence of the hams.” Late-night comedy hosts were absent from their posts Tuesday night, as most shows aired reruns due to the a writers strike over what they say are unfair compensation practices. And their absence was felt in the political world Wednesday morning, as well. Missing from news shows have been freshly viral clips of cutting political commentary from late-night hosts, which are commonly used to inject a little levity into news programming. It’s a reminder of how politics and entertainment have become intertwined and, further,...

This marks the first Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike since 2007. The labor union that represents more than 1,000 entertainment writers, who work across film, television, news and online media, are going on strike because the deadline for a new contract passed on May 1 this year without a ratified contract. The threat of a strike haunted Hollywood in the days leading up to the contract expiration deadline — and after failed negotiations, the announcement made by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) Monday night forced...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that already is leading most late-night shows to air reruns. “No contracts, no content!” sign-carrying members of the Writers Guild of America chanted outside the Manhattan building where NBCUniversal was touting its Peacock streaming service to advertisers. Some 11,500 film and television writers represented by the union put down their pens and...

You’ll have to wait a while for the next original “Live, from New York!” “Saturday Night Live” will not produce any new episodes for the next while, owing to the writers’ strike called for by the WGA. The show’s next scheduled episode, slated for Saturday night and hosted by former cast member Pete Davidson with musical guest Lil Uzi Vert, will not take place, according to NBC. With a work stoppage in place, it’s quite possible that fans will not have any more new episodes of “SNL” in its 48th...

Several major late-night shows are shutting down and preparing to air re-runs in support of their writers who are going on strike. "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night" with Seth Meyers are all set to air re-runs due to the Writers' Guild of America (WGA) strike that began Monday. Some hosts expressed support for the writers on strike as production is set to pause on Tuesday. "Everybody including myself hopes both sides reach a deal, but I also...

How will we survive without the late night shows? Late night talk shows starring far-left zealots Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon immediately shut down on Tuesday after a writer’s guild strike. This is the first Hollywood writer’s strike in 15 years. The dispute is over streaming pay. Nightly talk shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are set to go dark starting on Tuesday after writers agreed to strike. Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily...

Thousands of screenwriters went on strike overnight after six weeks of negotiations for a new film and scripted TV contract came to a stalemate. The existing contract between the Writers Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — which includes Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony — officially expired at midnight Pacific time, kicking off the walkout. Writers have been seeking a major overhaul in compensation for streaming residuals, as well as higher pay overall, greater protections and a solution to the...