Variety has a fascinating story about a topic I mentioned in one of my newspaper columns: how soon the late night talk show hosts might try to come back and do their shows without writers. Apparently, no one wants to be the first one to cross the picket line, so there may be some sort of informal, under-the-table agreement by which shows from more than one network would resume on the same day next month:

In an interview with Time.com, a striking “Late Show” scribe said he and his peers “would have no problem” if Letterman returned sans scribes.

“David Letterman on the air without writers, p***ed off and talking about the strike, would be the greatest ally the writers could have,” he told the magazine.