Dexter is ace.

You think this series of Heroes is good. I can't respect your opinion.

Dexter is proper s****!

I don't look into things like you do, i just watch and like

The strike is a very real possibility because the writers and the producers are very far apart in negotiations. There's some info on the wga.org page if you want to read up on it. Check it out if you have some time to kill. The feeling I get is that the strike in 1988 will be nothing compared to a strike today. And it won't be just Lost -- all shows will immediately shut down. It's ugly now, and it seems like it's going to get worse. But the fans like repeats and reality shows, right?

I'm really not sure how ABC would handle episodes completed and "in the can." They may wait to see how long a strike would last. Or they could decide to burn them off and then have another mini-hiatus until after the strike is over and production is back in the swing of things. ABC will be facing that issue with all their shows if a strike happens. Just like all the networks.

As far as Carlton and Damon being writers and producers and caught in the middle; this is where the term "producer" becomes problematic because of the way it's defined. Creatively, Damon and Carlton call the shots; therefore they are the (creative) executive producers. However, it is Touchstone (now called ABC Studios) who pays for the show and is therefore the producing entity. (And ABC Studios is in turn owned by Walt Disney Corporation, which in the end is really the paying/producing entity.) So the big corporations, like Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, CBS, Fox, NBC Universal, etc., are the "producers" the writers guild is negotiating with. It kind of comes down to the suits versus the creative people.

There is a producer's guild, and I'm not sure what the membership requirements are to join. Maybe someone like J. J. could join since technically he owns his own company and produces various shows. I don't know if it's a requirement to join the producer's guild and be a signatory to the various other guilds in order to employ WGA, DGA and SAG members. I know as a member of the WGA, you are not allowed to work for companies that are not signatories to the minimum basic agreement. And that's the agreement the WGA and the producer's guild is trying to hammer out now.

So we'll see. SAG's contract is up at the end of April, which is why film production is starting to be affected. If a film can't start and finish by the end of April, companies are passing on it. Everything is being moved up because of that. So if the writers strike, I would imagine that the actors would strike, too. And that would be bad, obviously...

I'm loving Pushing Daisies. Especially as Anna Friel's in it. 

I haven't checked this out yet but here's a short summary from Wiki. I'll let you know what I think when I've managed to watch it!

Journeyman

The series centers around Dan Vasser, a normal man who, for an unknown reason, begins jumping back in time. He soon learns that these jumps are linked to the life of a certain person, whose destiny he is meant to change, though it doesn't always turn out for the better. While doing so, Dan reconnects with Livia Beale, his ex-fiancée, whom he lost in a mysterious plane crash. Armed with knowledge of the present, he wonders if he can save her, and in turn how it will affect his life.

Much better than British TV.