Dexter?
The Wire?
House.
IANAS but I’m pretty sure The Wire wrapped up its final season before the strike. Premiere is January 6.
How about Ugly Betty?
Thanks.
**Dexter: ** Is complete and airing
**The Wire: ** Fifth and last season is complete.
**House: **13 of 22 complete. By the way – a House writer from Season 1, who is one of my Strike Captains in WA is one of unfortunate souls affected by the floods. She has a flooded house, trees down and all that shit. She obviously has no flood insurance (who does in a non-flood area?) and the emergency funds cannot help seeing as this is not a medical or housing emergency. We’re pulling together a WGAid-A-Writer “pay it forward” underground campaign to help her and other writers in similar predicaments right now – paypal is set up for it, mnscribes at paypal dot com for more info or whatnot… mods, take this note down if you want to shoot me in the face for it I’m not peddling wares or anything…
Ugly Betty: 13 of 24 completed.
I think someone (was it you?) **said ** Bones has 3 more episodes done?
We are usually OK with (and sympathetic to) requests for charitable aid, but we do prefer that you ask IN ADVANCE. We’ll almost always give permission for such things, but we want to monitor so that we don’t have forty or fifty of them, clogging up the boards and detracting from each other. So, Elenfair, consider yourself beaten about the arm by a strand of somewhat soggy spaghetti for not getting advance permission.
What about Law & Order (the original series)? Like Lost, it wasn’t supposed to debut this season until January. Have any episodes been completed?
This is so cool! I feel like such an insider now.
Here’s my list:
Grey’s Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
24
Were *The * Riches, Damages, and *Dirt * renewed on the FX channel, and if so what’s their status?
Soap operas are going to be affected the the strike too, right? So um…when are eps of General Hospital going to run out?
Is there any way you would be able to simply copy and paste the entire master list here? If not, how many episodes are left of The Simpsons, or is the season already over?
What’s up with season 3 of Big Love?
A question about Lost - maybe this isn’t something you can answer, but if you can, I’m curious:
As everyone knows, Lost isn’t supposed to re-start until January 31, and they have 8 episodes in the can. If the writers’ strike were to end tomorrow - could production start up and proceed quickly enough so that the the season is aired seamlessly? About how long does it take to shoot an episode? Any reasonable estimate of how long the first new episodes are likely to follow the end of the strike?
Is this gonna hurt Mythbusters?
Somewhat related: I heard The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are going to start airing new episodes in January. How exactly are they going to accomplish this? Does it mean they’re scabs, and we should stop watching their programs? What’s the feeling among writers about this?
The episodes that were shot before production went down, were they always fully written when they were shot? I feel like I have seen some mediocre episodes lately, but it might just be a coincidence.
L&O:CI and L&O:SVU, please
also
Heroes
e.r.
Monk
Psych
South Park
Drawn Together
It definitely isn’t over, they’ve got a new one airing a week from Sunday. I’d trust Elenfair over unsourced comments at SNPP.com, but according to that site there may be enough episodes to last until May or whenever the season was scheduled to end. A Simpsons episode takes about nine months to write and draw, so you have to figure this season’s episodes would already be done except for last-minute changes. But if SNPP is right, the strike could delay next season.
I’m back!
Righto.
Law & Order, a world I know very well. First off, hats off to the showrunners – fine people, all of them. Neal (SVU), who is negotiating for the WGA; Warren (CI), former WGAe president, who has been busting his butt and standing by his people; and Rene (Mothership, formerly CI, formerly Mothership), who has been doing the same for his people. All three also pitched in a great deal for the Crime Writers’ Day, a week ago Tuesday. Rah, we say, RAH.
**Mothership: ** I believe they have 8 in the can, but I could be wrong. Let me confirm.
Criminal Intent: 10 of 22, with many asses busted over that, let me tell you. Sweat and tears, baby, sweat and tears and scheduling nightmares.
STFU (snort): 14 of 22, with Olivia and Elliot alternating in the role of Saint of the Week.
**Grey’s Anatomy: ** 11 of 22 completed, one of the first productions to shut down.
**Desperate Housewives: ** 11 of 22 completed, also one of the first to shut down. 10 have aired, and they’re holding onto the last one they’ve got.
24: has been canceled by FOX on day 2 of the strike. No 24 this year.
The Riches: Second season premiere is scheduled for March. Will have seven of 13 completed. Production is shut down.
**Damages:**Just picked up for two more seasons. Production on season two scheduled to begin early next year but will be delayed by strike.
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Dirt:**Will have seven of 13 episodes completed. Production is shut down.
Heroes: 11 of 24, last I heard. Shut down pretty early, too.
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e.r.:** I’m unsure of the status of completed episodes. Production has shut down.
**Monk & Psych: ** Enough scripts to guarantee a full second half of the season.
South Park: Unaffected. Animation.
Drawn Together: Also unaffected, animation show not under WGA.
I will answer the other nifty questions in my next post 
Saving Grace? The Closer?