The TV Grid: When Is Your Favorite Show Coming Back?
With the writers' strike over, here's a look at where your favorite TV shows currently stand.
ABC Back with new episodes in the spring
- Samantha Who? (April 7, 6 episodes)
- Boston Legal (April 8, 6 episodes)
- Desperate Housewives (April 13, 5 episodes plus two-hour finale)
- Brothers & Sisters (April 20, 4 episodes)
- Ugly Betty (April 24, 5 episodes)
- Grey's Anatomy (April 24, 5 episodes)
- Lost (April 24, 5 episodes)
- Women's Murder Club (April, 3 episodes)
Returning next season
On the bubble
Dead?
The rest
- Eli Stone
(10 new episodes left)
- October Road
(four 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 Back with new episodes in the spring
- Medium (will continue its current run)
Saturday Night Live (returns Feb. 23)
- My Name Is Earl (returns April 3)
- 30 Rock (returns April 10)
- ER (returns April 10)
- Scrubs (returns April 10)
- The Office (returns April 10)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (returns April 15)
- Law & Order (returns April 23)
Back in the fall
On the bubble
Dead?
We await details on...
CBS Back with new episodes in the spring
- Two and a Half Men (March 17, 9 new episodes)
- How I Met Your Mother (March 17, 9 new episodes)
- The Big Bang Theory (March 17, 9 new episodes)
- CSI: Miami (March 24, 8 new episodes)
- Cold Case (March 30, 5 new episodes)
- Criminal Minds (April 2, 7 new episodes)
- CSI: NY (April 2, 7 new episodes)
- Without a Trace (April 3, 6 new episodes)
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (April 3, 6 new episodes)
- Ghost Whisperer (April 4, 6 new episodes)
- Numb3rs (April 4, 6 new episodes)
- NCIS (April 8, 7 new episodes)
- Moonlight (April 11, 4 new episodes)
- Rules of Engagement (April 14, 6 new episodes)
Dead?
We await details on...
- The New Adventures of Old Christine
- Welcome to the Captain
- The Unit
- Shark
- Jericho
(seven already shot episodes, airing now)
- Swingtown
(hasn't yet aired)Fox Back with new episodes in the spring
- Bones (returns April 14)
- Back to You (returns April 16)
- 'Til Death (returns April 16)
- House (returns April 21)
- Unhitched (premieres March 2)
- New Amsterdam (premieres March 4)
- Canterbury's Law (premieres March 10)
- The Return of Jezebel James (premieres March 14)
- Hell's Kitchen (new season April 1)
Probably won't be back until next season
- 24 (returns January 2009)
On the bubble
Dead?
CW Back with new episodes in the spring
- The Game (March 23, 9 new episodes)
One Tree Hill (April 14, 6 new episodes)
- Smallville (April 17, 5 new episodes)
- Gossip Girl (April 21, 5 new episodes)
- Reaper (April 22, 5 new episodes)
- Supernatural (April 24, 4 new episodes)
Dead?
We await details on...
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
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Anatomy of Grey’s Anatomy
Medical Drama’s Unleashed
CSI: Investigative Unit
Loving Trauma: ER
TV Sensations
Perfect Books
CW Central
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