(hollywood reporter) A standoff on Wisteria Lane, a day off at Dunder Mifflin, two-week notices at the late-night shows and a winter edition of "Big Brother" are among the top TV-related headlines from Day 2 of the writers strike. Picketing writers targeted a Toluca Lake neighborhood Tuesday morning, disrupting a location shoot for ABC's "Desperate Housewives" that featured star Eva Longoria Parker. More than 30 picketers, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, managed to stop production outside the home at the corner of Toluca Lake and Clybourn avenues. Filming inside continued as scheduled. Portions of the dialogue affected by the noise outside are expected to be looped in postproduction. Many on the production side raised their hands in support and at times appeared to encourage the striking writers and their supporters to yell louder. The picketers were creative in their chants, yelling, "Marcia's cross, and so are we!" "Unfair. Unjust. Marc Cherry is with us!" ("Desperate" creator/executive producer Marc Cherry, a member of the WGA negotiating committee, walked the picket line Monday.) During her break around 1 p.m., Longoria Parker went outside, walked through the crowd and climbed onto a pizza delivery truck to hand out pizzas to the strikers. "We are done, and we'll be on the lines supporting you," she told them. ("Desperate" will wrap production today on the episode, the last with a finished script to be shot before the end of the strike.)

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