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Jericho Fans Have New Network to Mail Peanuts To

Jericho is back! Not back back, but still, in a way, back! The CW has canceled its Sunday night schedule, outsourced to Media Rights Capital to produce, which means the end of Valentine and Easy Money, the latter of which I will apparently be the only person in America to miss. And it’s replacing the [...]

To Live and Die in LA

Will the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art go the way of Lehman Brothers?   The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the perenially cash-strapped MOCA is in even worse shape than people thought.  Much worse.  It has an annual budget, “in excess of $20 million”, that equals or exceeds its $20.4 million investment portfolio. Did [...]

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Big Events Help Network News; Also, They Don't

Two side-by-side stories in today’s Romenesko media news:  1. Thanks to a spellbinding Presidential election and major economic news, 60 Minutes‘ ratings are way up.  2. Despite a spellbinding Presidential election and major economic news, network newscasts‘ ratings are slightly down.  The angle of David Zurawik’s interview with 60 Minutes’ executive producer on the Baltimore [...]

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Heroes: Serial Killer?

The Heroes panel at a recent Screenwriting Expo was a strange event, reports IGN: creator Tim Kring was scheduled to be on the panel with two of his producer-writers, but they were fired before the panel took place. Naturally, discussion turned to what Kring might change about the show to save it. He made a [...]

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If You Can't Say Something Nice…

It’s getting close to the end of the year, which means it’s time once again to start putting together the year-end critics’ lists. As I mentioned to another TV writer the other day, this year I’m thanking God for returning shows, because I’d have a hard time finding anything in this fall’s debuts to put [...]