We’ve been remiss on our Nip/Tuck watching, so recently we crammed four or five TiVo-d Dr. Troy splurges into a single viewing bonanza.

It just so happened that, while fast-forwarding through millions of dollars worth of commercials, we actually did catch a glimpse of a promo for the second season of Dirt, the Courteney Cox vehicle where she plays a tabloid editor a la Bonnie Fuller.

Given we stopped watching the show during the first season, right about when the crazy guy took the office hostage, we were only remotely interested in the show’s March 2 return.

Though we did want to see how writers would treat real-life Fuller’s veritable loss of power at her own company. Our guess: They would ignore it for a plotline only mildly more sexified.

Then, seemingly out of nowhere, today F/X announced they are canceling any new production on ABC Studios’ Dirt, as well as channel cousin The Riches from Fox TV Studios, beyond the seven episodes of each churned out before the writers strike dried up the script well. So does that spell demise for Cox and her schizophrenic paparazzo pal?

Probably not!

F/X turned down the dial on those shows in the middle of their second seasons for budgetary reasons. Third seasons of both shows will likely return, sometime in the future, when there are more dollars for production.

But just like when HBO made fans wait months (years?) in between seasons of The Sopranos, the viewing public, perhaps, will care a little bit less about Lucy Spiller. Unless Britney cameos.