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2/13: Strike is over! How this will play out…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Now that the writers have officially approved the contract with the producers, Hollywood is back in gear and scripted shows will start coming back.
Already, the talk shows are in gear and starting today, you’ll start seeing Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Leno and Letterman back in full gear. (I thought Conan did a great job without his writers though there are only so many times we could watch him spin his wedding band on a desk.).
Next up: “Saturday Night Live” will be back Feb. 23 with Tina Fey as host. And the Academy Awards with Jon Stewart as host is set to go as normal (which is good or bad depending how your tolerance level for that show.)
Some of the sitcoms will probably hit the air with new episodes in mid-March, according to the New York Times. That includes top sitcom “Two & a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory,” set to start again March 17. Chuck Lorre told the Times he hopes to pump out nine episodes for each show, working seven days a week. (Ditto with “How I Met Your Mother”) Most shows, though, will at most do five or six. “The Office,” the first show to run out of episodes in mid November, won’t be back until April 10 at the earliest.
Dramas take longer and it won’t be until April before we see “Grey’s,” “Desperate Housewives,” “House” or “Ugly Betty.” Two series won’t be back this spring: “24” and “Heroes.” Ditto for “Pushing Daisies” and “Chuck.” “CSI:Miami” will be back, though, on March 24 and will air a whopping eight new episodes while “NCIS” and “Criminal Minds” will get seven starting April 2. “CSI” and “Without a Trace” are set April 3 for six more episodes each. The CBS Friday night lineup power back April 4 with six each for “Ghost” and “Numbers” and four for “Moonlight.” On Sunday, “Cold Case” re-starts March 30 for five more episodes. “Shark” has four more but a re-launch date hasn’t been announced.
Several shows appear to be dead and won’t come back at all: “Journeyman,” “Big Shots,” “Bionic Woman,” “Cane” and “Friday Night Lights.” (Fans are trying to keep FNL alive.) The futures of “ER” and “Scrubs,” two shows expected to be over, are not firm. Ditto with “Boston Legal.”
TNT”s “The Closer” and “Saving Grace” are three weeks behind schedule and will launch in later June. HBO’s “Big Love” and “Entourage” have been pushed back.
“Lost” will air 13 instead of 16. The show has eight in the can. There will be a gap of about a month before its final five episodes. The other three not episodes will air at some later date. More info here, courtesy of Mike Ausiello of TV Guide.
TV Guide has the most comprehensive update guide here.
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By Jim H.
February 13, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this
OK, well there better be lots of great writing out of them since they have had four or five months to sit around and think up stuff.
By The Editor
February 13, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
Rodney: “Friday Night Lights” isn’t a freshman show. It’s in its second season.
By Bud
February 13, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
I was hoping the writer’s strike would last forever. Now they are going back to creating insipid, mindless sitcoms and dramas. Most of these shows will get low ratings since people have already left them behind.
By Mike
February 13, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Hey there Bud. Is this any different than that “insipid, mindless” reality programs that we are already force-fed? The cool thing about TV and Radio is that you can change the channel or even turn it off.
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February 13, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
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By Salz
February 15, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
i LOVE scrubs!! and come on they better get their act together i want ugly betty back asap!!