The late-night shows may return on air by next month, following the announcement that the WGA and AMPTP had finally reached an agreement.
Various outlets have hinted that producers of late-night talk shows have already started planning their broadcast returns.
According to various sources, late-night shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert are currently targeting an early October return.
“I think that the calculation for all these shows is how quickly you can get your crew back to work,” a late-night insider said.
“There’s probably some conversations to be had with labor relations. We’re so close to the finish line that no one wants to step on a guild landmine. But from a production standpoint, I think you could turn it around pretty quickly.”
After the shows went off the air in April, the late-night show hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver kept busy by hosting a podcast called Strike Force Five.
Proceeds from the podcast are given to their employees, who have been out of work since the WGA strike began last May 2.
