NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are heading back to work despite the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike.
Comedy Central announced that production on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume Jan. 7, the New York Daily News reported on its Web site Thursday.
Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel recently announced they would be returning to their late-night shows Jan. 2 and Carson Daly was back on the air earlier this month.
"We would like to return to work with our writers," Stewart and Colbert said in a joint statement. "If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."
Most late-night TV shows have been shut down since the WGA strike began Nov. 5, forcing networks to air reruns in the shows' regular time slots.
The News said David Letterman's World Wide Pants, which produces his "Late Show" and "The Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson, hopes to hammer out an interim agreement with striking writers to get its shows back on the air, as well.
