It won’t be a late night with Seth Meyers or Stephen Colbert or either of the Jimmys for a while.

Movie and television writers moved ahead with a costly industrywide walkout for the first time in 15 years. The Writers Guild of America, which represents 11,500 television writers and screenwriters, announced late Monday that a strike would begin early Tuesday, with picketing commencing in the afternoon, after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents Hollywood studios, failed to yield a new deal before the current guild contract expired.

For TV fans, it means that the writers behind your favorite shows, like ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” and Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” are headed for the picket lines. And depending on the duration of the strike, the move either will have a swift or delayed effect on TV production.

Late-night talk shows are the first to be affected, including “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” as well as those on cable networks like “Real Time With Bill Maher” and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.” All rely on guild writers to pump out topical monologues and skits.

Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel and Meyers have already openly agreed to pause production on their shows, which will revert to reruns on Tuesday until further notice. Maher and Oliver’s shows will go dark immediately, with nomer reruns scheduled.

Meyers addressed the strike with viewers on Monday night on his show, saying it would be interrupted if the strike happened. He voiced support for the writers, telling the audience that the show was built on strong writing. “Look, nomer one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job in show business, they are entitled to fair compensation. They are entitled to make a living,” he said. “I think it’s a very reasonable demand that is being set out by the guild, and I support those demands. But I also believe that everybody at the table right now, be it from the writer side or the studio side, knows that the future of this business is dependent on storytellers.”

After going dark for a few weeks during the last strike, some of TV’s late-night hosts returned to work without their writing staffs in order to keep other employees working and attempted to pull off their shows as usual; however, others leaned into the bit. Conan O’Brien, then the host of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” filled airtime by spinning his wedding ring on his desk and zip-lining over the studio audience.