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David Letterman: Worldwide Pants
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In the wake of NBC’s decision to fire all non-writing employees on its late night schedule, David Letterman has decided to personally look out for his staff members. He will be paying for their salaries through his company, Worldwide Pants. A few other people (like Jon Stewart) have said that they will cover the salaries for their writers, but Letterman is the first to say that he’ll make sure his non-writing staff is taken care of.
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David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants is—we believe—the first to reach an agreement with the Writers Guild of America for internet royalties. Since The Late Show and The Late Late Show are owned, not by CBS but Letterman's own company, the show was able to circumvent CBS negotiations altogether and settle with the WGA without setting major broadcast-wide precedents.
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David Letterman made a welcome return to The Late Show on Wednesday night. As stated on Wednesday, Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, negotiated with the WGA to return with his writers. And throughout the broadcast, Letterman made sure to know just where his sympathies lay.
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[A] very hairry Letterman had a 4.3 rating and 10 share, or 39 percent better than his pre-strike average. Letterman came back to work with union writers after his production company (Worldwide Pants) struck a deal last week to bring his writers back to work. Conan O'Brien's "Late Night" on NBC and Craig Ferguson's "Late Late Show" on CBS all had similar results with higher ratings.
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Reps from DAVID LETTERMAN's production company, Worldwide Pants, confirm to ET that they have struck a deal with the WGA enabling the "Late Show" host to return to the air on Jan. 2 with his writing staff. The agreement revives CRAIG FERGUSON's "Late, Late Show" with writers as well.
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Synopsis: After making a career in the Big Apple, a lawyer returns to the small Ohio town of his birth in this comedy-drama series from Worldwide Pants Productions, the company headed up by David Letterman. Ed Stevens (Read More
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