With the WGA strike all but officially over, TV Guide has a new strike chart up predicting when we’ll start seeing new episodes of our favorite shows.
On the good news front: Shows expected to return before the end of the current season include The Office, Gossip Girl, Smallville and Supernatural. Also, Lost is expected to shoot an additional five episodes beyond the six they still have left, and production on the second half of Battlestar Galactica’s last season should start in March.
On the bad news front: No Heroes, Pushing Daisies or Chuck until the fall or 24 until January 2009. Actually, after the lackluster season two of Heroes, a little more time may not be a bad thing.
The list also says that Journeyman, Bionic Woman and Life is Wild are all DOA.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Gem that it was, Journeyman was already canceled before the batch of possibly strike-related cancellations started happening.
One of the best shows of the new season. Love DIRTY SEXY MONEY and BIG SHOTS, too, only for them to get the ax as well. The mouth breathers want more reality shows.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Dirty Sexy Money has been renewed, actually …
http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/02/11/with-strike-over-abc-decides-to-renew-nine-shows-for-2008-09/
February 12th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
The real bad news here is that Chuck wasn’t cancelled outright along with Bionic Woman. God, NBC and CBS had universally terrible new shows this season.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money run circles around they’re more heavily hyped Wednesday sister show, the oft-dreadful Private Practice. I love both of those shows to death. Sucks that I have to wait forever for both of them AND 24.
At least Galactica’s coming back soon. And at least it’s going to get to finish.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Thank goodness we’re getting more Lost… That show’s rarely mis-fired, IMO, but it’s really kicking a** right now. People who might’ve watched but gave up really need to come back and catch up on what they’ve missed.
My only concern is that they’re saying they’ll probably only do five more shows beyond the eight that were produced before the strike. The original plan was to 16 shows this season, not 13. With a story like Lost’s I’m worried that cutting this season short could mean three episodes we’ll never get back, or might seriously alter the story that Lindelof and Cuse want to tell. Really, if you can do five more shows, what’s three more on top of that?
I would think ABC would want as many episodes of Lost as they can get (not to mention a 13 episode set of DVDs will seem paltry compared to what we have been getting). Hopefully they figure out a workable solution and keep the storyline they way TPTB want.
Heroes, sad to say, I don’t miss at all and wouldn’t care if it never came back. It had A LOT of promise, but it rarely lived up to it. That show’s just a train wreck.