Next week, several familiar faces will make their long-awaited return to late-night television!

On Wednesday, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert announced on their Strike Force Five podcast social media that their shows will return next week after the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to end the writers’ strike at 12:01 a.m. PT.

The “founding members” of the talk show hosts declared in a joint statement that they will return to their network television shows on Monday, nearly five months after they ceased production on May 2 due to the WGA strike.

Meanwhile, John Oliver, the fifth member of the Strike Force Five, is expected to return to Last Week Tonight on Sunday.

The five hosts, who collaborated in August to launch the limited-series podcast in order to raise funds for their out-of-work employees during the strike, thanked their Strike Force Five team, wives, special guests, and listeners in a hilarious message as they announced the podcast’s end.

“Strike force is a concept.” It occurred to us that five men could talk over each other for 12 episodes and maybe someone would listen,” they wrote. “As we say our goodbyes, we’d like to thank everyone. You truly were the heroes.”

“For the time being, goodbye.” “And hello for later, because we still have a few episodes left, unless Ryan Reynolds cuts off the cash,” they joked. “This is the Strike Force 5 signing off and the Late Night 5 signing back on.”

After the WGA declared a strike in May, production of daily late-night series such as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Daily Show ceased, with the network showing repeats.

During the strike, some late-night presenters expressed their support for their writers on their shows, including Fallon, who told NBC News on the red carpet of the 2023 Met Gala that he “supports” his writers. “We have a lot of staff and crew that will be affected by this, but, you know, they have to get a fair deal,” he stated.

Meyers also defended his authors, declaring, “I love writing.” I enjoy writing for television. I enjoy writing for this program. I love that we get to come in with an idea for what we want to accomplish every day, work on it all day, and then I get to come out here. Nobody has a right to work in the show industry.”

“However, those who have a job are entitled to fair compensation,” he continued. They have the right to a living. The guild has made a fairly reasonable demand, in my opinion. And I agree with their requests.”

After Trevor Noah announced his resignation in September 2022, The Daily Show will return on October 16 with an all-star lineup of guest hosts for the rest of the year. Comedy Central said on Wednesday that a new permanent presenter would be appointed in 2024.

While several late-night shows have resumed production, production on scripted shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Grey’s Anatomy, and 9-1-1 has been paused due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, which began on July 14.