Looks like Kristen Bell and Jason Dohring aren’t the only ones hitting the small tube again. VERONICA MARS’ Papa Bear Enrico Colantoni is doing a big guest stint on NUMBERS.

TV Guide’s Ausiello reports:

Veronica Mars’ much-missed Enrico Colantoni is returning to the tube with a major guest stint on CBS’ Numbers, sources confirm to me exclusively. The role shouldn’t be much of a stretch for the actor formerly known as Det. Mars: He’s playing a surveillance specialist who takes a hostage when he suspects that someone has been spying on him.

The episode — slated to air in mid-December — is currently in production and, therefore, wouldn’t be a victim of the strike.

Well tonight’s going to be a hard one to catch up on as I won’t be home until midnight and you know my ass is going to bed the second I do. What a crap night to be away from my television.

Regardless, don’t forget to watch the first sweeps episodes of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, BIG BANG THEORY, CHUCK and HEROES!

The L.A. Times has created a grid that shows where many of our favorite shows are in the production process and how the strike will impact their production and airing schedules.

Want to know which Late Night shows will be in reruns tonight? How far along is Lost? Which episode has Supernatural completed? Check out The L.A. Times TV Grid.

While I can’t say there won’t be a ton of WGA Strike posts today, I had to make sure I did my job and brought you some TV News Links.

30 ROCK’s creator/writer/actress TINA FEY joined the picket line this morning outside NBC Studios as part of the WGA-East Strike. I love Tina Fey and that she’s out there working the lines. Of course my support means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Per L.A. Times:

The writers strike got underway on the East Coast this morning at 9 a.m., with strikers picketing outside Rockefeller Center. Among them: “30 Rock” writer-actor Tina Fey.

In all, around 75 writers carrying white signs that read “WGAE on strike” paced in a circle behind metal barricades erected on 49th Street in front of NBC’s Rockefeller headquarters in the chilly morning air, chanting: “What do we want? Contracts! When do we want it? Now!” The group included many writers from “Letterman,” “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report,” along with marquee names like Amy Sherman-Palladino (“Gilmore Girls”), Seth Meyers (“SNL”) and Jon Robin Baitz (“Brothers & Sisters”).

But perhaps the best-known writer in the group was “30 Rock’s” Fey, who tried to picket back and forth along the sidewalk across the street next to the “Today” show’s outdoor set, where more than 100 tourists were gathered to watch the live morning show. Fey managed to hand a yellow flier detailing the writers’ grievances to one “Today” fan before one of the dozen police officers on hand instructed her and a colleague to return to their designated metal pen across the street. The tourists appeared more excited about making a star sighting than the fact that a strike was occurring next to them; they eagerly snapped pictures of Fey with their cellphones as she walked away, a sign slung over her shoulder.

“My staff and I are wholeheartedly supporting the strike,” Fey said in an interview. “We’re happy to be out here today and hope it gets resolved fairly and quickly. I hope they realize we’re quite serious,” she said of the studios. “I think they need to know we’re very united.”

Fey, who both writes and stars in “30 Rock,” said she felt torn over her conflicting duties. Her show has finished production on nine out of 22 episodes but still has several days of shooting for the 10th episode scheduled for this week.

“It’s been made clear to me by NBC Universal that I’m contractually obliged as an actor to finish,” she said. “I feel the strike will be most effective when everything shuts down. I understand the guild’s point that the longer the shooting trickles on, the less effective the strike is. It’s very complicated. We have a crew that expects one more check, and we’re trying to get it to them. I think whatever happens in Los Angeles today will be influential.

“If we see actors walk today, that will make it easier.”

WGA Strike Update

Well folks, the last minute talks didn’t seem to do much because this morning in NYC picket lines are supposedly starting to form and at 9 a.m. Los Angeles studios will be bombarded by writer’s pounding the picket lines as well.

Associated Press reports:

Noisy pickets appeared outside the Today Show set on Monday as a strike by film and television writers got under way.

A giant, inflated rat was displayed as about 40 people in Rockefeller Center shouted, “No contract, no shows!”

“The seven-word mantra is, `When you get paid, we get paid,” said Michael Winship, president of the Writers Guild of America East.

In Los Angeles, writers also were planning to picket 14 studio locations in four-hour shifts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day until a new deal is reached.

The contract between the 12,000-member Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer expired Oct. 31. Talks that began this summer failed to produce much progress on the writers’ key demands for a bigger slice of DVD profits and revenue from the distribution of films and TV shows over the Internet.

Writers and producers had gathered for negotiations Sunday at the request of a federal mediator.

The two sides met for nearly 11 hours before East Coast members of the writers union announced on their Web site that the strike had begun for their 4,000 members.

The strike is the first walkout by writers since 1988. That work stoppage lasted 22 weeks and cost the industry more than $500 million.

The first casualty of the strike would be late-night talk shows, which are dependent on current events to fuel monologues and other entertainment.

Daytime TV, including live talk shows such as “The View” and soap operas, which typically tape about a week’s worth of shows in advance, would be next to feel the impact.

The strike will not immediately impact production of movies or prime-time TV programs. Most studios have stockpiled dozens of movie scripts, and TV shows have enough scripts or completed shows in hand to last until early next year.

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