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Many emailers to me think CBS' Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson is going back on the air next week because actress Angela Kinsey, who plays Angela Martin on NBC's The Office, posted this on her MySpace blog: "I am supposed to be on the Craig Ferguson Show on Nov. 29th. I think he is improvising the whole show. Should be interesting!"
Uh, no. I checked with my CBS sources who told me that any moment now Angela will get a call telling her the show is cancelled. What's happening is that guests are still being booked in advance on the Late Late Show on the off chance that the strike will end sooner rather than later. And each week there's no settlement, those guests are then cancelled. All in all, a fascinating exercise in futility. "No decision has been made when the show will return," an insider explained to me. "Producers have continued to plan for episodes in the event a strike is settled or the hosts decide to return."
So is Letterman's Late Show also doing this? I was told no. That's because Dave's show books 4 to 6 months in advance and Ferguson's show doesn't have that luxury.
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Why would she be crossing the picket line to be on this show improvised or not? Can’t she take a cue from Steve or Rainn? Oh, wait, she’s an actress. Wow. I hope people like her are remembered in years to come for not respecting writers.
Come in Steve, come in Johnny…
Maybe after Iraq I don’t trust anything I hear anymore, but could they just be floating him out there to test the waters for a Dave return?
Hey David,
I don’t appreciate the slur, ‘oh wait she’s an actress’. I have been walking your picket lines with other sag members,and yes some are ‘actresses’ since day one. I don’t recall seeing any writers on our picket lines when we last went out, I saw tons of teamsters… but we are behind your guild and out there on the lines with you. So please let’s stop the name calling. If you can’t be appreciative at least have the decenccy not to insult us.
This is a very confusing time, I’m seeing stars of shows on morning shows promoting their hiatus films
yet they are seen picketing in front of their tv studios.
For every jason bateman, you have actors who feel obligated to support their film and do their pr work for those projects. SAG has provided no guidance as to what should be done for the talk shows that are still going. Each actor is left to figure it out for themselves and some show runners could be telling them to go out and keep the fans of the show happy with seeing the casts.
Most casts have been let go without pay, we are in this together. I lost a huge job the first week of the strike is my loss less real because I’m an ‘actress’ take your misogyny out in what I imagine is rather action oriented writing.
Let’s stick together as fellow artists and not indulge in name calling among ourselves, your distaste for half the population of SAG serves no purpose in this fight.
Ferguson is a WGA member himself, I doubt he would cross his own picketline. I think Angela was joking folks, relax yourselves a bit.
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You’re wrong about that. Ferguson not only wanted to do his show alone, but he was hoping it would show the writers they were not needed. He doesn’t believe in the Union because it is not a traditional labor union in his eyes. He is apparently upset that the show was halted by Letterman.
Talked at length about it with someone who was in on the meetings. I had liked the guy up until that point – even appeared on the show once.
As Ferguson said recently on Bill Maher: “11:30 on CBS isn’t a ’show’, it’s a job.”