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Late night TV returns: News from the various shows
No Fact Zone — ... The Late Show with David Letterman (all links below are from Deadline Hollywood Daily unless otherwise noted): Returned with a full contingent of writers, a chorus line carrying picket signs, ...

Early buzz: Cross on 'Alvin,' Indy pics, Val's tunes, more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — Good morning! I hope you're all feeling good this morning -- I'm still recovering from an uncomfortable visit to the eye doctor, where I was forced to sit very still as he removed some sort of "filament" from my eyelid. Agggh! I could not stop thinking about this movie the entire time. Anyway, I'm fine now, and I have a few headlines to share: - We have a story about last night's late shows (and the hosts' beards). Here are more details about all of them. - How will the departure of Brothers & Sisters creator Jon Robin Baitz affect the series? - ...

Late Night Returns! Golden Globes Doomed?
Gothamist — ... everyone from writers on the picket line to bored couch potatoes were abuzz with news that the late night heavyweights would be returning with all new shows. Last night was the big night (Letterman, O'Brien, Kimmel, Ferguson and Leno all returned), and both Conan O'Brien and David Letterman took the stage showing solidarity with strike beards intact. Letterman threatened to shave his later on Conan's show, saying that he'd probably be helping his New York late night pal out since he's returned sans writers. ...

NBC Redacts Conan Transcripts, Golden Globes Still In Doubt
TV with MeeVee — ... Conan O'Brien was back on-air last night, and had a few words to say about the WGA strike. However, NBC for some reason did not include those words in early transcripts of Conan's monologue. Oh, sorry, they're saying. It was just a mistake. Riiiight. We're sure. Come on, AMPTP. We miss Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. And besides, Letterman is making you all look bad, because he's got writers. He's got striking writers on his show issuing their comical demands. He's winning. ...

Was Jay Leno’s monologue acceptable under strike rules?
No Fact Zone — ... I have a feeling this controversy not only isn’t going away but will probably deepen over the next days: Jay Leno admitted last night on the air during his first show back from strike hiatus that he wrote his own monologue. That’s a huge problem because it violates the strike rules of one of his unions, the Writers Guild Of America, which is currently on strike and picketing NBC and Leno’s Tonight Show. Leno did deliver what was a funny monologue. So the big question is who wrote it: WGA members or scabs (i.e. the usual contingent of joke ...