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Too Much Television on TV, NBC Declares

To borrow the terminology of its sitcom The Office, NBC announced today that it is merging the Scranton and Stamford branches. In a massive cost-cutting and head-chopping initiative, the beleaguered NBC Universal, weighed down by a languishing primetime schedule, will restructure in an effort to save as much as $750 million. About 700 people will [...]

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Jericho: Hack Job?

OK, so I know that it’s odd to spend much time theorizing about Jericho, especially when it airs on the same night as the far superior Lost: compared with ABC’s show, Jericho is the store-brand cola of mystery serials. But I’ll admit having been sucked into its nuclear intrigue, for all the show’s mediocrity and [...]

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Lostwatch: Bad News, Bears

SPOILER ALERT: The following post does not give away anything too crucial about last night’s episode of Lost. But I just might slip and say who won Project Runway. They’re cruel and generous, the gods of Lost: they kill you, and then they give you work. Thus we saw the return of Ian Somerhalder as [...]