Fans of 24, brace yourselves. The show might not even make it to air this season due to the ongoing WGA writer's strike:
Fans won't be happy about this. The promotional push for Season 7 had already begun, but given the situation, the show might not debut at all this TV season. Because of the heavily serialized nature of the series and the specific 24 hours over 24 episodes format, FOX and the producers are debating whether it's worth airing only the first few episodes of the season, only to have the storyline be cut off for an unknown amount of time. Sources IGN spoke to have heard that the show has enough scripts completed to only get them through around episode 10 of the season. Beyond that, if production can't resume within a month, it's almost certain to ensure that the show won't be able to complete 24 episodes this season and thus won't be airing at all. Presumably the completed episodes would be held for whenever production does resume and air together during the 2008 - 2009 TV season.
Well, that sucks. 30 Rock's only got 9 out of 22 episodes in the can and The Office might shutdown production since some of its actors are also writers. All I can say is that college basketball season couldn't have come at a better time.