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I’ve said before and will say it again: whatever my opinion of Jay Leno as a talk show host, and whatever my opinion of NBC’s canning Conan O’Brien or Leno’s role in it, the idea that he is in danger of a big ratings backlash over it is a stretch. (His ratings could be lower when he returns for other reasons, like viewers’ having drifted …
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During the ten minutes or so I happened to tune in to the pregame of yesterday’s Jet-Colts championship game, I saw something that I could have happily lived my life without seeing: CBS pregame host James Brown interviewing the eTrade baby for his predictions on thegame:
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put a gun in your purse and watch last night’s Big Love.
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“Ladies and gentlemen,” Conan O’Brien intoned at the beginning of his final Tonight Show, “we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio.”
Well, how about the audience? Can you fit them under your jacket? In his final show, O’Brien left with a mix of gratitude, rebellious humor and the implicit promise to be back, …
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This new ad for the final season of Lost aired on ABC. For the particularly spoiler sensitive, I’ll save my impressions of what I see in it for after the jump…
With Conan set to cede the Tonight Show back to Jay Leno after his Jan. 22 airing, TIME looks back at the entertainer’s most memorable characters, guests and zingers
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Tonight sees the debuts of two series eagerly anticipated by various fanboys and -girls: SyFy’s BSG prequel Caprica and Starz’s gladiator saga Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I hoped to review both at length, but that dream has become another victim of my time crunch. But I’ll toss out a couple quick opinions on each: namely, Spartacus …
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Because of the NBC Nightly News’ bizarre obsession with prioritizing actual important news, the segment I taped yesterday on that network’s late-night wars was shuffled off to the Web. For those of you still interested, you can see me holding forth for about five seconds, in front of the giant books in the fake library I retire to …
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Time is tight this morning, so I’m going to skip the usual NBC Thursday-comedies Watch and invite you to tell us what you thought of Community, Parks & Recreation and 30 Rock.
Instead, I’ll just focus on the one question that I’m sure is on all of our minds: what the hell was that thing they …
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As I mentioned before, I’ve been away from the blog writing. And in this age of multimedia journalism, today “writing” meant “spending four hours getting to and from NBC’s studios to talk about the Jaypocalypse for about five minutes on camera.” The interview will be on the NBC Nightly News tonight; I realize you are reading this on a …
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NBC and Conan O’Brien have finally signed the deal making the host’s split from the Tonight Show after this week official. You can read the details here. The question I want to ask this morning—and there are a lot of questions going forward from here—is: was shafting O’Brien on the Tonight …
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While I’m otherwise occupied, you must, must, must read the first installment of Maureen Ryan’s lengthy interview with Damon Lindelof and Carleton Cuse as a walk-up to the Feb. 2 final-season premiere of Lost. No spoilers, no plot-heavy interrogation: instead, thankfully, Ryan got the producers to engage in a really thoughtful …
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Taiwanese Animated Hulk-Conan smash!
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[h/t The Awl.]
