The fabulous “Daily Show“ and “The Colbert Report“ are set to return to the TV screens on 7 January 2008 – but without their writers! This should be interesting: these talkshows live on the topical jokes writers script every day. Though both hosts are WGA members (the WGA disapproves, by the way) and clever, funny guys themselves, it should still be very hard work to keep up the momentum of these formats. Nobody knows if their viewer base will like what they see, and therefore the ratings and the advertising deals are still up in the air… The Daily Show screens with a day delay in New Zealand, I hope they will therefore return on the 8th January. I will report back on how it changed.