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David Hayes, a production driver for the show, says he's been told "One Tree Hill" has enough scripts to continue shooting until just before Christmas.

"After that, it's sort of up in the air," he says.

If Hayes and his fellow crew members are left hanging by a lengthy strike, he says workers may have other options in Wilmington.

"There are rumors of some features coming in that already have scripts," he says, "so we may get some business out of that, on that end."

Or he and others could work on locally shot commercials. But with the events of the writers' strike setting the stage for talks with the actors' and directors' guilds next June, we may see even more pickets next year.

"It should be an interesting year, anyway," Hayes says. "We may have to travel out of town to work."

That's OK -- Hayes says that most people in his line of work plan on layoffs as a rule.

"It's kind of like construction work in that way," he says.

Calling all airheads

To all you air-guitar virtuosos who developed your chops windmilling to The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," here's a question: What's the matter with you?

No, I'm not talking about your devotion to your pastime (really, I'm not). I'm simply asking why more of you haven't entered WRAZ Fox 50's "Search for the Next Great AIR Band" Contest?

As of three days before Thanksgiving, only one brave entrant had submitted a video of a guitar-syncing version of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine."

Come on, people, we can do better than that! The winner of the contest (details are at www.myfoxraleigh.com/myfox) will be flown to Los Angeles for a few days for the finale of Fox's "The Next Great American Band" in mid-December.

WRAZ's Kevin Kolbe says he's not worried about the lack of interest so far. He figures the situation may turn out like Fox 50's contest for local bands to audition for "The Next Great American Band" this past summer, when bands seemed to wait until the last minute to enter. (The local winner was the band Pull, which made it to the cut of 60 bands during auditions for the show.)

So why air bands?

"I think in all of our lives, we need a little air band," Kolbe says. "We wanted to do something fun."

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