Family Guy Without Its Creator, and More Strike News

• Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is not pleased that Fox is planning to complete written episodes of the show without his input, calling it "a colossal d*ck move" by the network. He admits, though, that Fox is within its legal rights to do so.
• There's a report that Letterman will pay his staff out of his own pocket through the end of the year.
• Ellen DeGeneres, who's been under fire for crossing picket lines, has canceled plans to tape her show in New York next week.
• What we'll be watching if the strike continues: a whole lot of game shows and a Supernanny spinoff called Supermanny.
• There's a small (so far) movement to send unsharpened pencils to the networks.
• This new blog tracks strike-related job losses.
• The studio executives have said they don't know how much money there is to be made online, but this video currently making the rounds would, um, strongly suggest otherwise.