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Jericho: The Nuts May Have Won This One!

TV Week is reporting what would be a stunning turnaround if it pans out: Jericho may be un-cancelled after all. Fans of the show, infuriated by the postapocalyptic serial’s cancellation in mid-cliffhanger, have bombarded CBS with complaints, as well as box after box of peanuts, in order to persuade the broadcaster to bring their show [...]

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The Decency Police Lose Their Day in Court

I’m on deadline for the print TIME today–busily cutting down tiny little trees and fashioning them into words for the magazine–but I wanted to point you to yesterday’s appeals court decision striking down FCC indecency fines, which is a potentially huge step in reversing the FCC’s post-Janet indecency campaign. While the case specifically challenged “fleeting” [...]

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A Day at the Museum Media Center

Interesting item in today’s New York Times about a small but telling change at the Museum of Television and Radio: it is no longer a museum, much less one of television and radio. Beginning today, the midtown Manhattan institution is being rechristened as The Paley Center for Media. You can quibble with the new name, [...]