While many networks might be in trouble next Fall due to the writers' strike shrinking the new pilot season, ABC is looking quite good.  It has a solid stable of returning favorites (Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives), hit reality shows (The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars) and a solid 2007 freshman class that will return for sophomore seasons (Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Samantha Who?).  This doesn't leave much room for new or bubble shows, so this season ABC is cleaning out its closet, dumping a lot of iffy shows while picking up a few gems from other networks.

With the writers' strike over, fans are more than just ecstatic to see more new episodes of the ABC hit detective show, Women's Murder Club.  Starring Angie Harmon as Lindsay Boxer, the series revolves around Lindsay's team of women who are out to get the bad guys through their collaborative efforts of varying fields.  Cindy Thomas (Aubrey Dollar) is a reporter who is sick of her mundane desk job and is ready to take on the more grueling crime cases, while Claire Washburn (Paula Newsome) is a medical examiner who gets into the details of every murder case to find a possible solution to the crime.  Jill Bernhardt is a passionate district attorney who's also got some personal issues she carries with her everyday, hindering her from facing her own demons, but empowering her to find the real demons on the streets of San Francisco.

Tonight, the show returns with the first of three new episodes airing at 10pm.

Viewers can look forward to three fresh episodes of Women's Murder Club as ABC brings the police procedural-legal drama back on the air beginning April 29.  This announcement comes as a pleasant surprise to fans considering that the show was almost canceled due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.

Set in San Francisco, California, Women's Murder Club is a show that centers on the lives of four women, consisting of a homicide detective, an assistant district attorney, a medical examiner and a newspaper reporter, who come together to use their expertise and talents in their respective fields to solve murder cases.  Despite leading different lives, they are bound together by a close friendship, which makes them more effective in uncovering clues to the city's most gruesome homicides.  The series stars Angie Harmon as Lindsay Boxer, Aubrey Dollar as Cindy Thomas, Laura Harris as Jill Bernhardt, and Paula Newsome as Claire Washburn.

ABC really wants to torpedo the premiere of The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition.  Following NBC's announcement that they were moving back The Celebrity Apprentice's premiere one week (from January 3 to January 10) to avoid college football and the final pre-strike episode of Grey's Anatomy, ABC announced today that they were moving back the final pre-strike episode of Grey's Anatomy to December 10 as well.  Both shows are set to air at 9pm.  Both of these announcements are accompanied by major shuffling of air dates for ABC and NBC shows.  Here's a look at where the final pre-strike episodes of some of ABC and NBC series will now fall. 

ABC's procedural series, Women's Murder Club, may be a neophyte on the boob tube, but it sure has proven murderous to its weekly competition.  Thus far, the freshman crime-solving drama has consistently drawn over 8.5 million viewers each week, delivering strong, solid numbers since debuting last October 12.

The program's impressive numbers offers a welcome validation for one of its stars, who was initially drawn to the show primarily because it is set in San Francisco.

ABC's Women's Murder Club, inspired by James Patterson's best-selling crime novels, is one of the few drama series on air today that features a female-dominated cast.  Actress Angie Harmon, who appears as Lt. Lindsay Boxer in the series, said that working with female costars Paula Newsome, Aubrey Dollar and Laura Harris has been a “fantastic” experience so far.

"It's fantastic.  Also, because we are women, we have the ability to be nurturing and supportive and caring for each other…  When you take one and put it with three other ones, we all are very powerful in what we do,” Harmon told movieweb.com.  “The four of us don't find a weakness and pounce on it.  You lift each other up and support each other…  We have a deep respect for each other… it's become a very nurturing and supportive group."