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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.]
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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.”
