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One last Jaypocalypse post (I think) for the day: James Hibberd is quoting “a well-placed Fox source” as saying that Fox would be interested in (a presumably-ticked-off-at-NBC) Conan O’Brien, should he become available. Reportedly Conan has not yet agreed—pointedly—to a deal to push his Tonight show back to midnight to make room for …
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For those of you who didn’t see the DVD last fall, Syfy airs the Battlestar Galactica prequel movie The Plan on Sunday night. Here’s my review (“curious but inessential”) from October; I’d recommend it mainly to BSG completists who can’t wait for Caprica.
Also Sunday, a Tuned In personal favorite, Big Love, returns to HBO. I’ve seen …
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Word comes via Twitter, from both ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Lost producer Damon Lindelof, that the Lost premiere date of Feb. 2 is no longer under consideration as the date of the State of the Union address. President Obama, it appears, knows better than to risk the wrath of Smokey.
Adds Lindelof: “Okay. So Obama didn’t technically …
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No, not everything happening in TV right now is about Jay Leno. But it could well be that Chuck, which returns Sunday before moving to its regular timeslot Monday, could find that Conan’s loss is a certain Mr. Bartowski’s gain. The show, which teetered on the brink of cancellation last spring, got a surprise order of an extra six …
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Looks like we may as well make a Jay Day of it. Over at my Twitter feed, people have been tossing out suggestions for what they’d like to see NBC toss in as stopgap programming if they have five hours of The Jay Leno Show to replace in a month and a half. (Required caveat: If it happens!) In particular, it has awakened the pangs of …
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“We still make the crappiest late-night TV. When all’s said and done, we’ll be remembered as the ones that sucked the most. But what did we do? We sucked at the same damn time every night.”
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If the reports are true—and it increasingly looks like it—that NBC is planning to send back Jay Leno to 11:30, it raises a lot of questions: Will Conan stay? What does NBC program in primetime? What about Carson Daly? For this post, I’ll stick to one: Why now?
What’s most surprising about the move—again if reports hold true—is …
