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Writers Slam Daly For Resuming Production

'Last Call' First Late-Night Show To Tape Again

POSTED: Thursday, November 29, 2007
UPDATED: 10:04 am CST November 29, 2007

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Television talker Carson Daly is feeling the heat from the Writers Guild of America for resuming his late-night show "Last Call."

Daly's returned to production this week to tape new shows, which will begin airing next week. The strike started Nov. 6 over compensation for work aired on the Web and released on DVD. Relying on topical news for fresh material, the first programs to cease production were the late-night talk shows.

Other talk shows, including "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with David Letterman" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" have remained idle since the strike began, and their respective networks have been airing re-runs.

Letterman, in fact, has even guaranteed his workers' salaries through the end of the year on both his show and "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," another show under the auspices of his production company.

The WGA noted its admiration for the loyalty of the idled talk shows and slammed Daly in the same statement, expressing its "profound disappointment."

"We thank them and hope that Mr. Daly will reconsider his decision, including the soliciting of scab writers to provide material for his program," the WGA said.

The distinction between Daly and his late-night counterparts is that Daly is not a member of the Writers Guild. Letterman, Leno and O'Brien are.

After meeting Wednesday, striking writers and producers agreed to reconvene Thursday, said a person familiar with the contract negotiations who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.

The writers union and the group representing studios have kept the location of their talks secret and declined comment.

Foreign Support

The WGA enters its fourth-straight day of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers Thursday with some new allies, as writers in Europe and Australia are showing their support for striking American writers.

Mark Burton was one of several dozen British writers who rallied in front of the headquarters of Britain's main union federation Wednesday, holding red-and-black placards saying: "We Support the Writers Guild of America."

Burton's credits include "Madagascar" and "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."

In Paris, a few dozen screenwriters and others joined a march that ended across from the Eiffel Tower.

They held up signs saying, "French Screenwriters Are Angry" and "Our Creative Work is Under Threat."

In Berlin, about 30 scriptwriters and actors gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate. And, Australian scriptwriters demonstrated in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

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