{"id":197954,"date":"2007-12-28T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/world-wide-pants-makes-deal-with-striking-writers-letterman-back-on-the-air\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T03:58:00","slug":"world-wide-pants-makes-deal-with-striking-writers-letterman-back-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/world-wide-pants-makes-deal-with-striking-writers-letterman-back-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Pants Makes Deal With Striking Writers, Letterman Back on the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So will Craig Ferguson&#8217;s show, which is also produced by Letterman&#8217;s sartorially named production company.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/28\/business\/media\/28cnd-strike.html?hp\">details of the deal have not yet been released<\/a>, but this should create a significant advantage for both Letterman and Ferguson, not just because they will have writers, those monologues typically take a dozen writers to hammer out, but because there are a lot of guests who won&#8217;t cross a picket line, and with World Wide Pants productions, they are not.<\/p>\n<p>As to whether this will lead to Letterman taking back the ratings lead from Leno, only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I may watch Letterman, but I won&#8217;t be watching Stewart or Colbert, who will be airing shows without a deal with writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So will Craig Ferguson&#8217;s show, which is also produced by Letterman&#8217;s sartorially named production company. The details of the deal have not yet been released, but this should create a significant advantage for both Letterman and Ferguson, not just because they will have writers, those monologues typically take a dozen writers to hammer out, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1065,1023,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-labor","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}