Late-Night Comedy Writers Face “Oblivion” If WGA Loses Strike, Guild Negotiating Committee Member Greg Iwinski Says

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) is calling for a strike.

Jon Stewart may have replaced John Oliver in the Outstanding Talk Series category at the Emmys but HBO’s Last Week Tonight is still up for four awards.

Jon Stewart is back in the late-night Emmy race.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Buckle up for a busy 72 hours. SAG-AFTRA’s already-extended contract talks will come to a head one way or another by the July 12 midnight PT expiration deadline. And as goes SAG-AFTRA’s negotiations with the major studios and streamers goes the rest of Hollywood’s year. By multiple accounts, progress in the negotiating room has been negligible since SAG-AFTRA granted a 12-day extension of talks hours before the contract expired June 30. The mood across town is grim with the expectation that Hollywood will soon endure its first “double strike” in more than 60 years. The Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since May 2, stands ready to help SAG-AFTRA execute its first industry-wide work stoppage since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. SAG-AFTRA’s move would bring a burst of energy to the WGA’s public efforts at a time when union members privately acknowledge that strike fatigue is setting in. With little diminution in the resolve of WGA members to back their union, polite discussions of “what’s the endgame” are nonetheless rising among writers and showrunners who were busy juggling multiple projects for 2023 and 2024 before scribes went pencils down.

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Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio are still feeding into rumors that they’re an item.

Lauren Jauregui is sharing her opinion after Elon Musk set viewing limits on Twitter. The former Fifth Harmony member feels that it’s not a “coincidence” that the Tesla founder is implementing these changes as the U.S. prepares for another presidential elections cycle.

David Banda, were seen rallying around their ailing mom at her NYC apartment amid reports of late-night rehearsal schedules before her hospitalization.The “Material Girl” singer was hospitalized earlier this week after being found unresponsive and was in the intensive care unit with a serious bacterial infection for several days.It’s been reported that she is still severely ill and bedridden since being released from the hospital.Rocco — whom Madonna, 64, had with ex-husband Guy Ritchie, 54 — was spotted early Friday morning outside his mother’s Upper East Side townhouse, wearing black slacks, loafers and carrying a backpack. Banda, who was adopted by Madonna and Guy, was photographed getting into an SUV outside the apartment a few hours later.Both sons returned later in the afternoon as well.The singer’s oldest daughter, Lourdes Leon, 26, was reportedly by her superstar mother’s bedside throughout the entire hospital stay.The visits to the ill pop star come amid reports that Madonna spent many late nights rehearsing for her Celebration Tour.Prior to the infection, the “Like a Prayer” singer was “doing well and feeling good in her rehearsals” — and sometimes staying up as late as 3:30 a.m.

Madonna really was pushing herself to the edge…

Madonna was putting in serious work preparing for her “Celebration Tour” before being hospitalized earlier this week.

Madonna was putting in serious work preparing for her  before being hospitalized earlier this week.The «Like a Prayer» singer was in the intensive care unit dealing with a serious bacterial infection, which developed Saturday, leading to a several-day stay in the ICU.A source tells ET that Madonna was «doing well and feeling good in her rehearsals» and staying up as late as 3:30 a.m. some nights to perfect her moves for the coming tour prior to suffering the infection.«She is a night person and normally sleeps during the day and then gets to work at night,» the source continues.

Stacey Solomon was left issuing a sincere apology to her fans in a late-night video as she thanked them for their support. The Loose Women star appeared in a video posted to her Instagram Story after putting two out of her three youngest children to bed.

Oh admits he's fond of a late night in Lennoxtown as he revealed the stick he gets from his parents over his Celtic stardom.

Two of the most successful specialty films of the year expand this weekend and a handful of others jump into an arthouse market that’s seen few new entrants in recent weeks as wide release piled on wide release.

The longest day of the year was this week, and SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers sure could use the extra hours to keep negotiating as the June 30 deadline to reach a deal before the current contract expires is only a week away.

Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast is now at Week 8, as we complete a stretch in which the standoff between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers passed the 50-day mark, halfway to the 100-day dispute that decimated Hollywood in 2007 and the 253-day dispute of 1988.

did lose the Civil War, at the time, the Union was led by President Lincoln’s Republican Party, while the pro-slavery Southern states were Democrats. The shift in party platforms was helped along when Harry Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform in 1948, which led to several Democrats abandoning the party to become the “Dixiecrats.” Meanwhile, the Republican Party employed what became known as the “Southern Strategy” to appeal to white voters by amplifying racism.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The decision to realign “variety talk” and “variety sketch” this year into “talk” and “scripted variety” didn’t do much to change that. If anything, it further narrowed the field, as perennial variety talk winner “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” has now been kicked over to scripted variety. As a result, my colleague Clayton Davis counts only 14 series eligible for the outstanding talk nomination. And it’s not much better in scripted variety, where just 10 shows appear to be eligible.

Seth Meyers has become one of the elder statemen of late-night.