How long they stay off the air is an open question. During the last strike, they gradually returned after a couple of months.
The fallout from the writers’ strike is beginning to hit.
Late night shows, including “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” will immediately begin showing repeats, according to several people briefed on the plans.
The Comedy Central program “The Daily Show,” which has no dedicated host, will also air repeats, as will the HBO shows hosted by John Oliver and Bill Maher.
Late Monday night, the East and West branches of the Writers Guild of America, the unions that represent thousands of TV and movie writers, announced that talks with the major studios had broken down and that they were going on strike.
The writers have said that their compensation has stagnated even as television production has rapidly grown over the past decade. W.G.A. leaders have said the current system is broken, arguing that the “the survival of writing as a profession is at stake in this negotiation.
