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Late in last week’s Lost summer seminar thread, Chaddogg put forth a plausible, and kinda creepy, season-4 opening scenario:

I really think the opening of Season 4 will be upon Naomi’s ship, and probably in the “captain’s” office/room. He’ll be seen (his body, that is, not his face) pouring himself a whiskey (maybe the same brand that

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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 display of

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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 of amateur videos for …

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 at midseason.

The …

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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, premature …

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 …

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 …

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, which to me sounds …

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I have no idea. But I already have watched the screener for CBS’s Creature Comforts (8 p.m. E.T.), and you could do a lot worse with a summer half-hour. Based on a British series that was in turn based on a short film by Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit), the show takes interviews with ordinary Americans and …

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Sopranos yet, barricade yourself in a safehouse until you have.

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So, it turns out that everyone predicting a high body count was right. Last night’s episode, The Blue Comet, was not only plot-packed–it was a rare Sopranos episode that seemed like, if anything, it …