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Two more hosts eye January return

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will return to US television on January 7, the week after Leno and Conan.

“We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence,” Stewart and Colbert said in a joint statement.

But the WGA has criticised Comedy Central for “forcing” the two back to work. Both hosts are also members of the guild with shows that rely heavily on scripted satire.

As Variety observes, “Shows could also conceivably rerun old, pre-strike pieces. Episodes would then be rounded out by interviews — which perhaps would be stretched out through additional commercial breaks; two guests, or perhaps a guest and a musical performance, might not be out of the question either.”

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