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How are the written shows faring against the non-written shows?

Posted Jan 11th 2008 1:23PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Late Night, Industry, OpEd, Talk Show, WGA Strike

Variety has an interesting piece about how the television shows that have writers are faring against the shows without. To my personal chagrin, Leno is still beating Letterman in the ratings. Also, Conan O'Brien's show is topping the ratings of Craig Ferguson.

What does this say? Are the NBC shows so entrenched in American culture that it wouldn't matter if Shakespeare were writing Letterman's monologue?

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