If the Writers Guild of America strikes on Monday as scheduled, you can expect a slate of late-night reruns to put you to bed.  Assuming a last-minute Sunday mediation session doesn’t prevent the 12,000 WGA members from walking out, daily productions ranging from The Colbert Report to Late Night with Conan O’Brien will immediately go into repeats.  So much for November sweeps.

The impact will not necessarily be limited to evening fare; daytime chatfests like The Ellen Degeneres Show may be affected as well.  Fortunately soap operas like my fave, General Hospital, have stockpiled scripts that should leave them immune for months to come.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Live with Brian Williams could also be the last Lorne Michaels production for some time.  But given SNL’s lame tendency to air repeats anyway, who’d even notice?