I've never watched Carson Daly's show, and, now that he just crossed the WGA's picket line, I never will.
From NBC's report:
NEW YORK -- NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly" is about to become the first late-night talk show to defy the writers strike and resume production.
Daly, who is not a member of the Writers Guild, will begin taping new episodes of his Burbank-based show this week for airing next week, an NBC spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
Isn't it great how NBC reports on this issue? As if NBC is an disinterested organization:
It was unclear what effect, if any, the return of "Last Call" would have on other late-night talk shows, which include NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Comedy Central's late-night news-and-commentary spoofs, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert, have also been in reruns.
I suppose it is unclear. But I wonder who NBC is rooting for in this struggle? There was a great really for the WGA in New York City today. ProudprogressiveCA diaried it here. Did NBC cover it? I wonder how they managed to miss it. Shocking.
My hope is that the other late-night talk shows will continue to do the right thing. The networks make millions of dollars off of writers. It's time for the unions to win against the powerful interests.
(As for Carson Daly, last time I saw him he was an MTV VJ. I thought he was no match for his predecessor Bill Bellamy (but maybe that's just the old man in me). What do you all think? Was Carson a poor man's Bellamy?).