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The premiere numbers for the return of CBS’ "Jericho" (right) are not
encouraging for fans who worked so hard to get it back on the air. In
fact, "all signs point to cancel." (TV By The Numbers)
Kristin Chenoweth of "Pushing Daisies" and mucho Broadway experience will sing at the Oscars. (The Piemaker)
MTV and NBC are coooking up some slick joint plans for the debut of "Quarterlife." (Reuters)
CW’s "Girlfriends" is a goner. (AP)
New NBC honcho Ben Silverman has been sort of a lightning rod throughout the season, in part because he’s young and in part because he has a habit of shooting from the lip. Wonder what people will say now that he’s sold his production company for $125 million. (TV Decoder)
Be glad you don’t work for NBC’s "Last Call." Remember when the network browbeat Carson Daly into being the first late-night host back to work? Well now they fired a bunch of […]

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I’m not quite sure who’s going to turn on NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly," given that the traditionalists will tune to ABC and Dick Clark, while Fox’s offering, with Cat Deely and Fall Out Boy, will get the young ‘uns. But Daly has Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz for guests, and Tiki Barber roaming the sidelines in Times Square, so he was looking forward to it anyway, to judge by a recent conference call with reporters.
The only time he got a little antsy was when a couple of us (me and one other dissident) asked him about going back on the air with "Last Call" despite the writers strike. But he likes staying up late, apparently, having done 9 of the last 10 New Year’s Eves either for MTV (where he used to host "TRL") or NBC. He was happy to talk about the peculiar demands of the […]

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This afternoon I joined a conference call with reporters and "Last Call" host Carson Daly, which was scheduled so he could talk about hosting NBC’s New Year’s Eve special from Times Square. NBC is making a little extra effort to get some publicity for the special, likely because ABC’s Dick Clark gets the lion’s share of the media attention every year. The NBC PR people are doing their job, and they do it very well.
I figured us TV reporters would do ours, too. But only two of the 20 or so questions Daly and producer David Friedman faced were about Daly’s decision to go back to work on "Last Call" last week despite the Writer’s Strike. I mean, it was pretty big news, given that the entire Hollywood community is in an uproar over the strike and Daly was the first late-night host to make the move. But another reporter […]

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