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Big media companies listen when Tuned In speaks! Kind of! Or I like to pretend they do!
A few days ago, I TV-Polled you as to what cancelled series you’d like to see re-cast and given a second chance on TV, a la ABC’s Cupid. For my part, I mentioned, I’d love to see Wonderland—Peter Berg’s excellent 2000 drama set in a …
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Jon Stewart and company weigh in on the sudden financial implosion of every newspaper in America in this Daily Show report. I highly suggest you watch. What else are you going to do—buy a paper and read about it?
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The universe is just in a giving mood toward Jay Leno this week. Yesterday, it dropped off a month’s worth of Rod Blagojevich jokes in his driveway, and that wasn’t even the lead-off of his monologue. Entering the Tonight Show stage to a high-fiving audience, Leno told his stagehands, “Leave those boxes! I’m not going anywhere!” …
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Perhaps the folks at Bravo, assembling this Top Chef-themed holiday promo were not aware that it’s a difficult time in the media business. But I’m thinking this is perhaps not the best time to be sending sharp implements to newsrooms across America.
[Update: Bravo confirms that this is, in fact, a set of cheese knives, encased in a …
Yale that is. Yale Daily News reporter Paul Needham, who has been following the story, posted the news today on his paper’s website that last Friday, lawyers representing the government of Peru filed suit in Washington, D.C. district court to demand that Yale return all of the artifacts it holds from the Inca settlement of Macchu …
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NBC made its Jay Leno announcement official today, holding a press conference and issuing a press release that spelled out—somewhat—what Leno’s 10 p.m. E.T. scriptkiller will involve. From the release, in which Jeff Zucker actually uses, a la Robert Huggins, the phrase “new paradigm”:
Leno will sign off as host of The Tonight
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NBC’s other old-new host, Jimmy Fallon, posted his first Late Night video blog last night, and I’ll say this for him: he picked a great house band. (In fact, I’m surprised that committing to the nightly show works for them, but it’s a steady gig, and I hope NBC is backing up a money truck.) As for Fallon, well, it’s unfair to judge by a …
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Solid episode of How I Met Your Mother, if not quite on the level of The Naked Man and—like that episode—not revealing anything that requires a spoiler alert. (Unless you haven’t seen the Sex and the City movie yet.)
What I liked best about this episode is that it was a fine example of how the show plays around with gender …
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Jay Leno, apparently, is not going anywhere, but NBC is downsizing.
Just after NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker raised speculation that NBC may look to reduce the number of nights it programs per week, the New York Times reports that NBC will give Leno a nightly show at 10 p.m. E.T., probably starting next …
A last minute addition to the long list of top museum people who left their jobs in 2008 — the J. Paul Getty Museum just announced that Weston Naef, their longtime photography curator, is stepping down. Naef was the lucky man who got to build the Getty’s great photo collection almost from the ground up. In 1984, when he came to the …
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Tonight, NBC makes good on its promise to give Jimmy Fallon an online tryout before he takes over next year as host of Late Night from Conan O’Brien. His five-minute webcast will go live at 12:30 E.T. The plan seems to have changed, from a sort of mini-late-show monologue to a “video blog” offering “behind-the-scenes access to Fallon’s …
I’m back from vacation, though while the blog was on hold for a week the crisis of everything, everywhere continued. Over the weekend Tim Rutten at the Los Angeles Times and then Roberta Smith at the New York Times offered ideas on what needs to be done to save the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Rutten says that as a first …
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Here’s one answer to NBC’s business woes: NBC Universal big cheese Jeff Zucker suggests the network could cut back its primetime by an hour (a la Fox, giving the hour to affiliates who may actually want it) or stop programming on Saturday (a la The CW)—or even Friday.
It won’t quell the NBC-is-dying talk out there, but it may not be …
