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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 …

Of course the penultimate Sopranos is on deck, but let’s not forget the season 3 finale of Entourage. Which is kind of weird, since season 4 of Entourage starts again two weeks immediately afterward. But that’s HBO, I guess. There are no rules.

I’ve been a little frustrated with this show. I mean, I never regret watching it, exactly. I …

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File this under Can’t Exactly Call it Surprising, but reports are out that Sci Fi will announce officially today that Battlestar Galactica’s fourth season will be its last. After 22 more episodes, the fleet will come to a stop, one way or another.

Unlike the ending-date decision for Lost, this isn’t …

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Our readers (well, Keith, anyway) want to know:

I made the mistake of watching Pirate Master last night. Have you caught it? Thoughts?[Ed: Spoilers deleted, as if anyone on the planet was going to go through the trouble of time-shifting this dud.]

Arrrrr, Keith, I did watch it! My thoughts: I …