Letterman’s pants…that’s a funny image.

Worldwide Pants, the company that owns The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson has expressed an interest in negotiating directly with the WGA to break up the “logjam” that the negotiations between the WGA and AMPTP has turned into.

“Because we are an independent production company, we are able to pursue an interim agreement with the guild without involving CBS in that pursuit…It is our strong desire to be back on the air with our writers, and we hope that will happen as soon as possible.” The committee also said, “The internal dynamics of the [alliance] make it difficult for the conglomerates to reach consensus and negotiate with us on a give-and-take basis.”

The AMPTP quickly responded by saying that the writers were “liar-faces”…not verbatim, but they did say that the guild was “grasping for straws”.

I know we’re pro-WGA, and it’s easy to villify the AMPTP, but, is it just me, or are they making it really easy to do so? Virtually every statement I’ve read makes them sound so smug and condescending. It makes me want to punch them in their respective mouths.

Regardless, if this independent negotiation went though, it would be huge…not only for Letterman and Ferguson, who would be the only live late-night talk shows producing new episodes, but it could also serve as an open door to other production companies to begin doing the same thing with their programs, and getting the strike resolved quickly.

(Source: Zap2It)