Claim: Dirt was created by Matthew Carnahan and produced by Coquette Productions.

Dirt -LRB- styled d!rt for logos -RRB- is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network . It premiered on January 2 , 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller , the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind `` glossy tabloid '' magazine DirtNow , which was previously two separate publications : dirt -LRB- a tabloid -RRB- and Now -LRB- a glossy magazine with a more respectable reputation -RRB- .   A 13-episode second and final season was announced on May 8 , 2007 . Only seven episodes were produced prior to the 2007 WGA strike shut down production . The shortened second season began airing on March 2 , 2008 .   The show was created by Matthew Carnahan and produced by Coquette Productions and ABC Studios .   On June 8 , 2008 , FX canceled the series after two seasons .