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Click to viewLast year, Hollywood's writers went on strike for 14 weeks, and genre television took tremendous damage as a result. But movies didn't emerge unscathed, either - we just won't see the fallout until this year. More »
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Now that the strike is almost certainly over, Battlestar Galactica could be back in production as soon as March, according to a handy checklist posted by TV Guide's Michael Ausiello. Lost may be able to shoot as many as six extra episodes this season, and Smallville could have five more. But (brace yourself) Chuck won't be back until the fall, and Bionic Woman is looking increasingly cancelled. [TV Guide, via FilmFodder] More »
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The writers strike is forcing executives to actually consider some of the rash decisions they've made. Case in point, the Justice League movie. Before the holidays there were announcements of cast members, chatter about the shooting location, a script that needed some work, and even rumblings from the Christian Bale/The Dark Knight camp that they weren't happy about another Batman hitting the screen. Looks like Warner Bros. has finally listened and is putting the skids down on the movie, hard. More »
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The writers strike will really start to take its toll on television this winter. Many fall shows won't ever wake up from the winter hibernation, and everyone will get sick of game shows and reality TV offerings. So, we've begun working on the io9 time circuits and blowing the dust out of our flux transistors (capacitors, what a joke). What television shows would you like to see return from the graveyard of canceled shows and appear back on TV with brand new episodes? Take a spin on the poll below and let us know. More »
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Eliza Dushku may spend a lot of time channeling Summer Glau in Joss Whedon's new show, Dollhouse. Joss tells SFX magazine that Eliza will be "playing a whole host of different personalities, including a total, childlike naif." In other words, expect to see her doing an impression of River from Firefly. Joss corrected your Dollhouse misconceptions, and delivered some surprising news about a Buffy TV spin-off. More »
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Here's a video showing Buffy / Firefly creator Joss Whedon and Battlestar Galactica remaker Ronald D. Moore dumping half a million pencils into a box that's being sent to Hollywood fatcats to help illustrate the writer's strike. Here's an idea: let's cut down the entire forest and ship reams of blank white paper to 'em! That way we can deforest the planet and make a point at the same time. [Whedonesque] More »
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• The aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind may make a cameo appearance in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Steven Spielberg is avoiding CGI in favor of puppets, and he decided to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of Encounters. There's retro, and then there's crazy retro. [MovieHole]
• The Hollywood writers' strike could be settled by Christmas, says Nikki Finke, a blogger who claims to have inside sources. That could allow stalled TV shows to get back on track, and let movies do some desperately needed rewrites. [Deadline Hollywood]

Chuck spoilers and news about J.J. Abrams' new mad-scientist show after the jump. More »
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The Bionic Woman is the latest victim of the Hollywood writer's strike—and not a minute too soon. This week's dating-and-dictators episode landed the ailing series almost at the bottom of the Nielsen ratings, a fall cushioned only by a worse performance by The CW's Gossip Girl. Will Bionic Woman return post strike? More »
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The apocalypse came to a small town, and nobody noticed. But that could change this spring. CBS' nuclear apocalypse drama Jericho barely escaped out-and-out cancellation thanks to a mail-in campaign involving bags of nuts. And this spring, it may be the only game in town, thanks to the writers' strike. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322423&view=rss&microfeed=true TV Guide's Brian Ausiello has an awesome chart of how long your favorite TV shows can stay on the air during the writer's strike. Bottom line: Heroes has four eps left, Chuck has six remaining and Smallville has a whopping eight. But poor Bionic Woman only has three more episodes in the can. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=321535&view=rss&microfeed=true I'm not the only person calling for a rewrite of The Bionic Woman. Over at Ti-Faux, Dan calls for more Katee Sackhoff/Bionic Woman #1 (yes!) and less little sister (double yes!!), among other sensible suggestions. More »
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