Just their luck: A hit show, then a work stoppage

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Executive producer Peter Traugott, executive producer of “Samantha Who?,” said that if the strike happens, the ABC comedy could actually benefit from the fact that it premiered Oct. 15, relatively late in the fall rollout.

‘We will have finished 11 episodes, at least, when the strike occurs,’ he said.

Don Todd, executive producer and one of the show’s co-creators, resorted to humor amid all the uncertainty of the strike: ‘Since I’m convinced that all things in the universe are about me,’ Todd joked, ‘I knew if there was a strike it’d be when I got a hit show on the air.’

--Scott Collins