Friday, February 8, 2008

When Will Your Show Be Back

With the rather widespread hope that the endless Writer’s Strike may soon have an end the LA Times developed a rather handy grid to answer the all important question: Is Your Show Coming Back?
Well, will it? See below

ABC

Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring
Probably won't be back until next season
  • Private Practice
  • Pushing Daisies
  • Dirty Sexy Money
On the bubble
  • Women's Murder Club
  • Cashmere Mafia
  • Carpoolers
Dead?
  • Big Shots
  • Notes From the Underbelly
  • Cavemen
The rest
  • Lost
    (six new episodes left)
  • Eli Stone
    (11 new episodes left)
  • October Road
    (five new episodes left)
  • Men in Trees
    (11 new episodes left)
  • According to Jim
    (six new episodes left)
  • Miss/Guided
    (seven episodes, hasn't premiered)
NBC

Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring
  • The Office
  • 30 Rock
  • Law & Order
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • My Name Is Earl
  • Medium
  • ER
Probably won't be back until next season
On the bubble
  • Friday Night Lights
Dead?
  • Bionic Woman
We await details on...
  • Life
  • Las Vegas
  • Scrubs
  • Lipstick Jungle
CBS

Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring
  • Two and a Half Men
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • The Big Bang Theory
  • NCIS
  • Criminal Minds
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • CSI: Miami
  • CSI: NY
  • Without a Trace
  • Cold Case
  • Ghost Whisperer
  • Numb3rs
On the bubble
  • Moonlight
Dead?
  • Cane
We await details on...
  • The New Adventures of Old Christine
  • Welcome to the Captain
  • The Unit
  • Shark
  • Rules of Engagement
  • Jericho
    (seven already shot episodes to air starting Tuesday)
  • Swingtown
    (hasn't yet aired)
Fox

Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring
  • Back to You
  • 'Til Death
  • Bones
Probably won't be back until next season
  • 24
On the bubble
Dead?
  • K-Ville
We await details on...
  • House
  • Prison Break
CW

Likely to be back with new episodes in the spring
  • Gossip Girl
  • Smallville
  • Supernatural
  • One Tree Hill
    (six more episodes already shot, more possible)
On the bubble
  • Reaper
Dead?
  • Life Is Wild
We await details on...
  • Aliens in America
  • Girlfriends
  • The Game
  • Everybody Hates Chris
HBO

Strike proof
  • In Treatment
    (First season airing now; all episodes were completed before the strike)
Likely to be back in late 2008/early 2009
Writing to resume immediately after the strike ends on
  • Entourage
  • Big Love
  • Flight of the Conchords
  • Tell Me You Love Me
On the horizon
  • True Blood
    (Two episodes were completed before the strike; this series is expected to debut in the fall.)
  • 12 Miles of Bad Road
    (Five episodes shot on another new series; no air date scheduled yet.)
Showtime

Likely to be back in late spring/early summer
  • Weeds
    (Scheduled to go in production in April)
  • Secret Diaries of a Call Girl
    (Eight episodes of a new half-hour comedy series have already been shot)
  • The Tudors
    (Ten episodes of season 2 have been shot; season 2 is scheduled to debut March 30.)
  • State of the Union
    (Tracey Ullman's new show, is set to premiere March 30 with five episodes.)
We await details on...
Production schedules and debut dates unavailable.
  • Dexter
  • Californication
  • Brotherhood
FX

On next month
  • Dirt
    (The strike-shortened seven-episode season begins airing in March.)
  • The Riches
    (The strike-shortened season begins airing in March.)
Strike proof
  • 30 Days
    (The documentary show was unaffected by the strike; a six-episode season airs in early summer)
  • The Shield
    (Production on all 13 episodes of the seventh and final season are completed, but awaiting final edit. Will air sometime after the summer.)
Back in late 2008/early 2009
Writing on all the shows is set to resume as soon as the strike ends.
  • Damages
  • Rescue Me
  • Nip/Tuck
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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