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There actually is some good news for NBC today, even if, naturally, it comes from a show that the network was once on the verge of ensuring would never see another season. The double-shot season premiere of Chuck got the spy comedy-drama its best ratings since its 3D stunt episode last year.
Celebrate, but don’t relax …
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Before you read the following post, mix yourself up some fry sauce and watch last night’s season premiere of Big Love:
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Presenting its midseason programming to TV reporters and critics in Pasadena this weekend, NBC made official its not-exactly a secret: after Feb. 11, The Jay Leno Show will be no more, at least at 10 p.m. NBC executives said that while Leno’s show was making money for the network (by lowering its costs even though it lowered the …
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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 …
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Whoa—things are getting interesting at NBC, or at least in the NBC rumor department. TMZ is now reporting that the network is moving Jay Leno back to 11:30 after Feb. 1. The open question, it says: will Jay take the Tonight Show back, or will he get a half hour, followed by Conan O’Brien? (Or, will Conan be screwed, or will Conan be …
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[Update: TMZ is reporting that Jay will move back to 11:30. See my separate post above.]
A TV-industry-news website, FTVLive.com (subscription required), is reporting that there are high-level talks going on at NBC over whether to drop The Jay Leno Show. The report is headlined “NBC to Pull the Plug on Leno,” and has been picked up thus …
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Speaking of the People’s Choice Awards, CBS used them last night to give us a sneak peek of the two tribes that were chosen for Survivor’s 10th-anniversary “Heroes vs. Villains” installment. After the jump, the list from CBS’s release, and a few thoughts:
