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After The Strike, When Will Your Favorite Shows Return ??

By fred | February 11, 2008

House

Might be coming back for 4 to 6 episodes.

How I Met Your Mother

Executive Producer Carter Bays Says: “We’re unbelievably stoked to be getting back to work. The chance to finish out the season is a dream come true in pretty much every way: getting our crew back on the payroll, getting our staff off the picket line and back in the writers room and, most of all, actually writing again. And doing eight more episodes will feel really good. And I couldn’t imagine a season-three DVD with just those first 11 episodes on it. Eleven episodes didn’t feel like a season. We’re TV, not HBO.”

Oh God, that last line had ma laughing so hard! The show might be back in April/May.

Journeyman

Sorry, but it’s been canceled. I hate NBC too.

Life

Not coming back this season, but will be back for a second one.

Lost

The show should go back in production asap and the 8 4 to 6 additional episodes would be added, bringing the season to its full 16 episodes order 12 et 16 episodes, said Matthew Fox.

Executive producer Damon Lindelof declared : “Indeed, it would appear that we are in the endgame of the strike. Personally, I couldn’t be more psyched to be part of this union. Like any negotiation, some parts suck and some parts surpassed my wildest expectations for what we could accomplish, but most of all I’m left with a feeling of pride.As for Lost (pending the actual lifting of the strike, which we vote for on Tuesday), a game plan should begin to manifest by the end of the week. All I can say is that Carlton and I and the rest of the writers have every intention of making sure you guys get more episodes this season beyond the eight already completed. How many and how they will be aired is a conversation we’ll be having with our bosses, but as soon as we’ve got a plan, we’ll tell the fans first.”Lost’s actors are on standby, and they’ll try to get us as many episodes as possible this season! Yay!

Carlton Cuse recently explained that their goal for Lost was to to produce five more episodes this season, bringing the season to 13 episodes, so 3 episodes short than the original plan. Regarding how this will be dealt with, Cuse that : “We will have to condense some stories.”

It seems that they do intend to bring the season where it was originally supposed to be, ending the same way, only with three hours less to get there. No official words yet, but chances are that season 5 might get three more episodes, bringing the season to 19 episodes and keeping the total number of episodes remaining for the entire show the same.

Now since Grey’s Anatomy will return as well, the question will be about the schedule : will Lost keep the golden Thursday at 9.00 time slot, or will it move ? Once again, expect lots of scheduling changes…

Men In Trees

Still 11 pre-strike episodes remain. No additional episodes expected this season.

Moonlight

Not coming back this season.

My Name Is Earl

Executive Producer Greg Garcia Says: “I’ve had some chats with people at the network and studio. We’re going to try to do nine episodes, which will be very cool, because I was worried our order would get cut down. The only thing that could stop us is if we have story trouble for some reason, but I’m optimistic. We’re gonna do an hour repremiere and an hour finale and five episodes in between. The plan is for production to start two weeks from today, so we have to have a table read a week from tomorrow, so we have a lot to get done.”

The show should be back with new episodes in April/May.

NCIS

Expected to shoot 5 to 7 new episodes, only three of which may air this season.

Numb3rs

Expected to shoot 5 to 7 new episodes, only three of which may air this season.

October Road

All 13 episodes for this season have been completed before the strike.

One Tree Hill

Six pre-strike episodes remain. Expected to shoot 5 or 6 additional episodes to air in April/May.

Prison Break

Still 2 episodes completed remaining, uncertain after that.

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