Carson Daly's 'Later' Gets Hosed By NBC

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NBC Rewards Carson Daly's Bravery With Staff and Budget Cuts
Published 2/15/2008 at Vulture
... This morning, Carson Daly (via Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily) teaches us an important lesson about life: It's not fair. As you'll probably recall, Daly's Last Call was the first show to return to late night following the start of the writers' strike in November (after NBC threatened to cancel him and fire his staff if he didn't). Daly shouldered lots of undue criticism (the WGA called him a scab, even though he's not a member of the guild, like all other network late-show hosts), but he went on with the show to save his employees, outing himself as sort of a ...

Morning Reading: "Jericho" Weak, And More
Published 2/15/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
... ." Remember when the network browbeat Carson Daly into being the first late-night host back to work? Well now they fired a bunch of his staff anyway. (Deadline Hollywood Daily) ...

The Job Carson Daly Went Back to Work Early For? It's On Its Last Legs
Published 2/15/2008 by david at Jossip
... Carson Daly, who returned to his day job even though a little thing called “the WGA is on strike” was going on, just received the door prize for having such machismo: NBC is slashing his budget and firing most of his writers. You know, those fellas who were, oh what was it? On strike. ...

NBC Throws Pink Slip Parade For Returning Carson Daly Writers [In Axings]
Published 2/15/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... setback is hardly going to stop him dutifully hoisting his head up from his desk at every applause cue to introduce the next riveting installment of "People Who Still Work For Me Theater presents Gina the receptionist listing the Presidents of the United States in reverse alphabetical order! What's that? Oh. I'm informed Gina packed her desk up earlier this afternoon and was escorted off the premises by two NBC Universal security guards. Anyone know any jokes?" Carson Daly's 'Last Call' Hosed By NBC [DHD] ...

'Last Call' loses staffers
Published 2/15/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
'Last Call' loses staffers Remember how Carson Daly went back to work during the writers strike? Nikki Finke is reporting she has "confirmed with the network that NBC has thanked him by cutting his show's budget and firing most of his writers." Ouch. Posted at 12:26 PM/ET, February 15, 2008 in ...