Letterman Looks to Return

According to The New York Times, executives from David Letterman's production company are hopeful that they will have an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of America as early as this week. News of Letterman's possible return came at the same time that members of WGA announced their plans to exercise their legal right to insist that the major studios and network production companies and the major studios bargain with the guild individually rather than as a group.

Negotiators for the WGA stated, "Each signatory employer is required to bargain with us individually if we make a legal demand that it do so. We will make this demand on Monday."

Since the forming of the alliance in 1982, no Hollywood union has tried to force individual bargaining across the board. All of television's late night shows have been off of the air since the strike was called, approximately six weeks ago.