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As expected, Dexter will be making its way to CBS. Starting Sunday February 17, the entire first season of Showtime’s crime drama Dexter will air on CBS.

“We’re excited to work with our corporate cousins at Showtime on this unique programming opportunity,” said Nina Tassler, President of CBS Entertainment. “Dexter is a high-quality, compelling series that will be new and original programming for most CBS viewers. It ‘s also a great match with our existing lineup, affording us the opportunity to promote this critically decorated series in CBS’s top-rated crime dramas.”

“We’re thrilled to have the chance to expose Dexter to a wider audience on CBS,” said Robert Greenblatt, President, Entertainment, Showtime Networks. “I think it will be very compatible with their lineup as well as be a great opportunity to promote our brand on a platform that reaches every home in America.”

What’s a half dead network to do in the face of a strike? Apparently screw with its lineup and completely confuse everybody. The shows that are typically the network’s biggest remain unchanged: Beauty and the Geek, America’s Next Top Model, Smallville, and WWE Smackdown (CW Now’s in its same timeslot as well for the two people who care).

Monday
8-9 Gossip Girl (as of January 28)
9-10 Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (as of February 18)

Tuesday
8-9 Reaper (as of January 15)
8-9 Beauty and the Geek 5 (as of March 11)
9-10 One Tree Hill

Wednesday (as of February 20)
8-9 America’s Next Top Model
9-10 Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious Rerun

Thursday
8-9 Smallville
9-10 Reaper (as of February 28)

Friday
8-10 WWE Friday Night Smackdown

Sunday (as of February 10)
7-7:30 CW Now
7:30-8 Everybody Hates Chris Rerun
8-8:30 Everybody Hates Chris
8:30-9 Aliens in America
9-9:30 Girlfriends
9:30-10 The Game

David Letterman’s the last of the late night hosts to announce his return to the air. Unlike everybody else, however, he will be coming back with his writers. Bloomberg reports that David Letterman’s World Wide Pants, the production company behind The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, has reached an agreement with striking writers that will allow him to resume his show next Wednesday with writers intact.

Letterman’s company agreed to the same proposals that the WGA was prepared to present before talks broke down and the strike began, the WGA said. Since Letterman’s neither streamed online (at least not widely) nor on DVD, I’m not real clear what they really got out of this negotiation, however, with the exception that it’s good PR for the guild and may push some others to act to attempt to resolve the strike. There is some concern that, while this may be a big positive for the guild, there is also the risk that it may divide the members as well.

Unlike most shows, which saw layoffs, Letterman began paying his staff out of pocket shortly after the strike started.

Lost returns to ABC on January 31 for an abbreviated 8 episode season 4. Here’s a two minute trailer.

Following on the heels of Britney’s 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn Spears being pregnant, the Associated Press reports that Nickelodeon is considering doing a special about teen pregnancy. The network is talking with veteran newswoman Linda Ellerbee.

“I think it’s important that something be done,” Ellerbee said. “But I think it’s important that it be done in a measured way, and not just to feed the beast of news stories… This is a great opportunity for parents at this moment to talk about this — more important, to listen to their kids about this.”

A spokesman for Nickelodeon confirmed the discussions but said a decision has not yet been made.