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After the coffee. Before straggling into work late. Emmy recap. No huge surprises at last night's Emmys as "Mad Men" and "30 Rock" again took the major awards, but there were some some upsets, including Kristin Chenoweth and Toni Collette....
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After the coffee. Before watching the Ernie Anastos chicken clip on YouTube again. Banks and hedge funds could cause headaches in D.C. As many big broadcasters and newspaper publishers struggle to emerge from bankruptcy, a new wrinkle could be banks...
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After the coffee. Before finishing your Emmy pool. NBC nonnews. Vivendi CEO Jean-Bernard Levy said nothing new Wednesday at a media conference about what the French conglomerate will do with its 20% stake in NBC Universal when its option to...
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After the coffee. Before taking the tuxedo to the dry cleaners. Leno's strong start. Day One was a win for NBC and Jay Leno. The former host of the "Tonight Show" drew over 18 million viewers in his prime time...
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After the coffee. Before deciding whether to book your talent on Leno. Programming for margins or marginal programming? The reviews are coming in for Jay Leno's new prime time show and -- big surprise -- if you weren't a fan...
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After the coffee. Before that pitch call with Kanye West and Taylor Swift. Here's Jay! Tonight marks (finally) the debut of Jay Leno's prime time show and there is no shortage of analysis (or promos from the Peacock) on what...
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Before the coffee. After remembering. Cheap commercials. NBC's Jay Leno experiment kicks off Monday with the debut of his 10 p.m. comedy/variety hour. The Wall Street Journal says a commercial in the show can be had for as low as...
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After the coffee. Before the national numbers for "Glee" come out. Measuring madness. A group of 14 major media companies and advertisers including Time Warner, Viacom, Procter & Gamble and Walt Disney announced this morning the creation of the Coalition...
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Before the coffee. After saying goodbye to "good morning." End of an era. Legendary Variety columnist Army Archerd, who began every column with a cheerful "good morning," died Tuesday at the age of 87. While Archerd, who retired from daily...
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Bob Iger, the normally stiff Walt Disney Co. chief executive, showed that he could indeed work a crowd as moderator of the Hollywood Radio & TV Society's newsmaker luncheon today at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel. Despite the old...
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After the coffee. Before making your bet on which new show will be canceled first. Was it a summer to remember or not? Now that we're past Labor Day, the box office analysis can begin. Yes, there was big money...
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After the coffee. Before figuring how early you can cut out of work today. Reading material. The Wall Street Journal offers up its fall movie preview and notes that lots of books are being made into movies. It doesn't say...
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Ask veteran sports executives to name one of their bigger regrets and they will undoubtedly say not building their own ESPN. Of course, it's easy in hindsight to say the leagues should have created their own cable network or networks...
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After the coffee. Before sending an audition tape to 'GMA.' YouTube's new tube. Google's YouTube is in talks with several Hollywood studios about getting rights to stream movies around the same time they go to DVD and video-on-demand. The deal...
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What's riskier, digging for oil or investing in Hollywood? The Louisiana-based Thompson family is about to find out. Timmy Thompson, along with brothers Bobby and Tommy, is investing millions of dollars in Cross Creek Pictures, a start-up production company headed...