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Back in December, I noted ABC’s announcement that it was launching Diane Sawyer as its new evening-news anchor in one of the quietest news weeks of the year. (Ordinarily quiet, that is, in those years when no one tries to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day.) I suggested at the time that the network wanted the debut to be as low-profile …
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No, I am not going on vacation again. But for the next few days or so, I need to go to ground and focus on a king-sized assignment for the print magazine, which means blogging here will be a little lighter than usual.
I’ll still be posting, there’ll be no Robo-James and should Conan challenge Jay to a duel, I’ll be all over it. But …
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Last night on The Jay Leno Show, Jay gave his side of the Tonight Show takeover in terms that were his most direct yet.
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The bit where he gave a pained sigh before deciding, “Yeah, I’ll take the show back”? [About 3:30 in.] Don’t think it was meant to be a laugh line.
In a nutshell: NBC …
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Because it’s been making the rounds, here’s an unusual Funny or Die clip. It’s not “funny because it’s true,” it’s just, well, true. It’s simply a verbatim Jay Leno talk, from 2004, on how he didn’t want an ugly fight over the Tonight Show, would graciously hand over the desk to Conan in 2009, and did not want to try keeping the show …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Big Love coming up after the jump:
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You had to figure that NBC, the Sanjaya of broadcast TV networks, would not emerge un-roasted from its own presentation of the Golden Globes last night. But you might not have expected that the roughest stretch of the broadcast would come not during the monologue or the acceptance speeches, but on the pre-show red carpet.
First the …
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I’ll be on NPR’s All Things Considered tonight (I’m told around 5:30-6:00 p.m. ET), and on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday morning (I’m told around 10:25 a.m.) to discuss, what else, the Jaypocalypse and NBC’s Conanundrum.
I shall endeavor not to swear. But if I do, just pretend I really said “Zucker.”
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According to The New York Times, the struggling new host of NBC’s Tonight Show feels disappointed and betrayed that the network is considering dumping him, after less than a year, for a replacement. Admittedly he got off to a rough start, but things are going smoothly now, he says, and he deserves more time.
Speaking to a reporter, he …
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I don’t have a full-fledged review for you of the four-hour double-shot premiere of 24, which begins Sunday night. That’s partly because the kickoff, though it brings Jack Bauer to my city of New York and recruits Katee Sackhoff to CTU, does not have enough in it to convince me that the show has rebooted itself to the point where I’d …
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The other day, I suggested that, since Jimmy Kimmel agreed to do the “10 at 10” segment on last night’s Jay Leno Show, he must not actually have much bad feeling towards Leno, despite his brutal hourlong imitation of the chinny host earlier this week.
I may have been mistaken.
Kimmel started the segment gamely, but halfway through …
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And so begins the long, grim task of rebuilding NBC’s schedule after The Jay Leno Show rips off its mask and admits it was really The Tonight Show all along. (If you needed further evidence that that was the endgame, People reports that next week is likely to be the last for Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show.)
So what does NBC have in the …
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Though I’ve fallen behind on The Venture Brothers, I tend to watch more Adult Swim than I blog about here. Partly because so many of the late-night toons are difficult to describe to the uninitiated, partly because people who love them already really love them, and people who don’t, or wouldn’t, tend to tune out when I evangelize for …
