Post-writers’ strike… and it’s back to business. NBC’s “My Name is Earl” has been told by the network and studio to air as many new episodes as possible by May 15th. No pressure.

“My Name is Earl” creator Greg Garcia is taking the order and running with it — hoping to return with nine new episodes.

According to Greg Garcia,

“I’m in a position where I want to have a table read a week from Tuesday and start shooting two weeks from tomorrow. We had two first drafts of scripts, so I’m going to read over those and see where we’re at because I haven’t even looked at them. I’m going to look at some other stuff to see what we have left in the way of stories. But the majority of my day will be figuring out the schedule, booking out directors, talking to casting — to hopefully get all the scheduling stuff out of the way so when the writers come on Wednesday, I can concentrate on the writing.”