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It's Alive! (Last Traffic-Pandering Jericho Post. For Today.)

It’s official: Jericho has been resurrected by CBS, seven episodes for next season. Says this afternoon’s memo from Nina Tassler (read the whole thing at the CBS Jericho board, and thanks for the link, Becca): To the Fans of Jericho: Wow! Over the past few weeks you have put forth an impressive and probably unprecedented [...]

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JPTV Jr.: Lost for Kiddies

Regular readers of this blog know that Tuned In Jr. and Tuned In Jr. Jr.–like the good alternaparent progeny they are–are fans of They Might Be Giants, and that we have a regular ritual of cruising for TMBG videos on YouTube. In the course of surfing, we’ve come across a strange genre: the burgeoning field [...]

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Jericho Update: Jericho Gets Jerichoed with a Jericho by the Jericho. Jericho!

Excuse the hed, but we’re all about search-engine optimization here, and apparently mentioning “Jericho” is all you have to do to get a rush of traffic to a TV blog. The news: The LA Times gets confirmation of the Jericho-resurrection talks from the producer. The bad news: The deal would be for only eight episodes [...]

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Test Pilot: Viva Laughlin

CBS This is the first installment of Test Pilot, a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But, [...]