The gap is back
If anyone was going to get WGA writers back on their show, that was David Letterman. Reuter reports that the late-night talk show host will be back on CBS on January 2, with his company, Worldwide Pants, Inc., paying, inter alia, royalties from internet broadcasts to its writers. Both The Late Show and the Craig Ferguson show, also owned by Worldwide Pants, will be back.
Since Letterman himself is a union member, and since he showed immense goodwill by paying his whole staff till December 31 whether a new show was made or not, this is good karma for he with the gap.
Rival Jay Leno will be back the same night on NBC, but without writers.