It appears Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will be following the precendent of Carson Daly and going back to work. With or without their writers. Not sure if they are pleased about it, though.
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
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In a joint statement, Stewart and Colbert said: "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."(AP 12.20.07)
Speaking of the writers, it appears that Arnold is talking to some of them. From Past Deadline (via CA Newsladder), we hear that Arnold has been asking about a few vehicles to get him back into the action hero game:
Well, we hear from the folks who have been walking the WGA strike picket line that The Guv has floated word to his peeps to spread the message that once his last term as the state's biggest cheese ends in January 2011, he would like to resume his role as a boxoffice superstar/film icon.
A few high-profile writers of action films who wished not to be ID'd (you know how that is) were heard conferring that before the strike hit, agents were putting out feelers for material and pitches to develop projects with Schwarzenegger in mind. Nothing specific yet. All just preliminary stuff. What this means is that Arnold isn't so very interested in running for the Senate and potentially spending all of that time in boring old Washington, D.C., California/Austria boy that he is. (Past Deadline 12.20.07)
