Nick Hunter
I have reached Yuki nirvana
The dubbing part is often done based on storyboards or rough animation sketches (not that radical, considering that Disney usually records vocies BEFORE even animating anything - but they strive for precise articulation, which has never been a must-do for anime
).As to deadlines - we're talking SHAFT here, the studio that manages to release up to three shows per SEASON. It must be a challenging life for the staff, so as a Shaft fan I don't exactly find myself entitled to complain if they fall out of deadlines sometimes or allow some slip-ups in the episodes (since they fix them all anyway for later broadcasts and/or DVD release). Although I was surprised about Madoka, since I remember reading that by January 6 three or four episodes were reported as completed.
That's what made me sure Madoka's production would be complete by now, but seems like it's not. The fixes we saw in this week's NicoNico broadcast of ep 10 show it clearly (God bless the staff for actually adding these fixes in time despite what happened). So, like I said, the studio must have preferred to delay the episode rather than fall behind the deadline immensely and launch a raw, underanimated episode. After all, it's their first original production in years, and quite successful so far to boot. Not wanting to ruin the impression is understandable.
Here is the approximate list of airing/delayed shows this week. Judging by that, rumours about content-related delays stop holding water - try convincing me that Madoka Magica is unfit to air at this crisis time, while Bleach and Oreimo (the latter complete with its tsunami scene) are OK.
That said, I'm still somewhat sad.
This Friday morning, without all the hype and youtube leaks, without new epileptic trees growing at Animesuki and Grunty complaining about music usage here... it feels lonely. 
@Kagaribi: it might surely beat the best barrier I've seen so far -
Patricia's one in ep10 
EDIT: judging by the talks on AS, the estimated delay seems to be two weeks, after all. I'm tempted to go hybernate...
My usual luck at work, actually - the FIRST time ever that I try following an ongoing series (not counting One Piece), and...
Anyway, good luck there, Shaft. We still have faith in you.
EDIT2: looks like my curiosity about schedules didn't go unanswered: one of the stations, according to this blog, is replacing Madoka with paired episodes of Rio Rainbow Gate. After checking out what that is, I can understand the blogger's fury.
Getting loads of fanservice pachinko instead of the conclusion for a brilliant and ill-predictable series you've been following... must be frustrating. Oh, and while browsing through the same blog, in another post there's also something related:
Tough luck is tough. Had the blogger remembered these lines, his latest post would have probably contained fewer suspicions for content-related shutdowns.
Although the content itself may be suggestive indeed - it's hard to doubt massive destruction due to unfold before us in one (if not both) of the remaining episodes. Anyway, it's WAIT time.
But on the other hand, Shaft sequels have never failed my expectations until now, and if Gen Urobuchi and Yuki are also brought back to the stand... hey, why not? 
Tihs mean more Yuki 
Although I'll probably watch it anyway - any Shinbo/Shaft work ends up in my watchlist, and any Shinbo/Kajiura collaboation is a definite must see for me. 
and that if he were to release it now it might be a big disappointment for madoka fans out there 
). So, presumably 12 days to Madoka. Countdown start. 
)...
