by Shannonn Kelly
The WGA strike has had a “lights out’ effect on all late night talk shows. Due to the lack of content being supplied by writers and every program now in reruns, the strike has had a devastating effect on ratings across the board.
For instance, ”The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”, (which we’d rather have chickenpox than watch), ”Late Night With Conan O’Brien”, the “Daily Show With Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” being hit the hardest.
The ”Late Show With David Letterman” and the “Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” are being hit as well with poor ratings. All shows are crucial for advertisers marketing to that all important 18-34 year old demographic.
Many people may not know but Craig Ferguson formulates his own monologue and could easily host his show sans writers.
We miss Jon and David and would love to see them come back without writers so they could just be their wonderful witty selves, just like Johnny Carson was back during the ’88 strike.
Read more about the ratings effect on late night talk shows at Variety.
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