Networks Plot Post-Strike Schedules

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As showrunners flip on the lights and scribes once again occupy long-abandoned writers’ rooms, network and studio execs are still figuring out what lives, what dies — and when it all comes back, Vasriety reports.


ABC got the ball rolling Monday, renewing nine series for fall in a post-strike pickup binge.


The renewals were essentially no-brainers, encompassing some of the Alphabet web’s top-rated scripted performers. Frosh series scoring orders include “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Private Practice,” “Pushing Daisies” and “Samantha Who?” All four have received 13-episode pickups, as is standard practice among frosh skeins.


ABC staples earning another year include “Brothers & Sisters,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Lost” and “Ugly Betty.” Most of those received complete 22-episode orders (with some exceptions — “Lost,” for example, was originally slated to produce 16 episodes next year but may produce a few more if a full 16 aren’t shot this year).


Several other networks are planning announcements in the next few days spelling out their spring and fall plans.


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