NBC - LAST CALL WRITERS GETTING LAST PAYCHECKS

Carson Daly, who was accused of "betraying" his staff writers when he became the first late-night talk-show host to return to the air four weeks after the WGA strike began (taping of his show was later disrupted by striking writers) is now being hit from the opposite direction. According to L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, NBC has cut Last Call's budget and fired three of its four writers. Six other employees also received pink slips. Finke, on her Deadline Hollywood Daily blog, said that NBC had confirmed the cuts and quoted a network source as saying that the cuts were not made because of the strike.

15/02/2008