More on The Strike.

Alan Sepinwall over at nj.com has posted a concise, easy to understand FAQ re: the writers' strike and how it will affect you:

"Many latenight talk and comedy shows that are written close to airdate -- including "The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report," "Saturday Night Live" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" -- will go into reruns immediately. Some may try to tough it out for a while without writers, as David Letterman famously did during the WGA strike of 1988. (I'm still awaiting comment on plans for Letterman, Kimmel and a few other shows in this category.)

After that, almost every scripted genre will have some episodes in the can, and the strike rules will allow, in theory, completed scripts to be filmed so long as changes aren't made. (Complicating matters is the fact that most TV writers also have producing duties; some have said they'll show up to work long enough to film the leftover scripts, while others are picketing. Complicating matters even more are shows where the writers are also actors; while on the picket line, Fey told the LA Times that she had no choice but to appear in the uncompleted 10th episode of "30 Rock" season two.)

Daytime will be affected earlier than primetime, possibly running out of episodes by the end of this calendar year. But primetime sitcoms and dramas, depending on how they're scheduled, could make it a month or two into 2008 before they run out, and a handful of shows with irregular production schedules won't run out at all. "Everybody Hates Chris" on the CW and "The Wire" on HBO, for instance, have both completely producing finished their seasons."