What will happen to 'Dirty Sexy Money' and other new shows? | The Watcher - Chicago Tribune : Last Friday, three days before the Writers Guild of America went on strike, the ABC drama's creator and executive producer, Craig Wright, sounded pessimistic about the show’s chances in the face of the scribes’ walkout. “I believe the show might end with Episode 10 — that might be the last one aired,” said Wright. He added that he supports the WGA strike, which largely revolves around writers compensation for Internet use of TV shows and films.
Back in July, before the show premiered, Wright talked in an interview about how much of protagonist Nick George’s story was derived from his own experiences.
Wright grew up poor, left home at 14 and ended up writing plays. In pursuit of a more stable income, he attended divinity school in Minnesota and became a minister for a short time. (It’s this aspect of his background that led him to create the “Dirty Sexy Money” character of Rev. Brian Darling.)
Wright said over the summer that he told his “Dirty Sexy Money” writers, “‘If you’re going to write for this show, you need to commit to examining the questions you face as a rising interloper in a world of radical privilege. You need to write your journey.’”
“The average Hollywood writer’s journey is Nick’s journey,” Wright added. “[He’s] someone who starts out moral and gets slowly deeper into a world” where his formerly trusty moral compass becomes unreliable.
“A poet named Kenneth Patchen said, ‘The one who comes to question himself has cared for mankind,’” Wright said. “I definitely think this show is part of how I question myself.”

“Dirty Sexy Money” is “humorous, romantic, there’s intrigue – you never know what kind of beat is coming next,” Wright added. “The really poisonous thing about a lot of network TV is that you know what it is from the moment it starts and it never stops being that.”
His drama is “on one most populist networks yes -ABC, but it’s intelligent and it’s cheeky and it’s unapologetically complicated and that makes me happy,” Wright said.

-There is a lot going on in the show, but it works well, keeps me interested. Oh, and who is Nicks's Darling half sibling. I also love the angry minister brother.
-I do not understand why the networks would be so quick to cancel these new shows in the face of the writers' strike, instead of taking this opportunity to re-run the entire season and snag some new viewers. There are a few new shows that I did not start watching from the beginning and now sort of wish I did. In turn, I have told people about shows I have been watching (like Dirty Sexy Money) and I think some would start watching the show given the opportunity to see the first few episodes from beginning to end