Here’s what woke me up screaming this morning…

American Gladiators renewed already?!

Yup, yet another sign of both the coming apocalypse and the painful length of the writer’s strike. From the brilliant people who put a Bridgette video up every day, TVSquad:

 That didn’t take long. Apparently, the absence of new Two and a Half Men episodes lead to the American Gladiator premiere getting the highest ratings of any new show this season, and an average of 12 million viewers sampling the first two episodes. All of this is enough for “starving-for-a-hit” NBC to sign up the competition show for another season. If the solid ratings continue, I’d look for NBC to go all Who Wants to be a Millionaire? with it and put it on every night of the week, sandwiched around new episodes of Deal or No Deal.

We’re. So. Screwed.