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    Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama

    Wild Things Scares Kids But Still Rules the Weekend Box Office

    Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland

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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    11/02/09

    In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
    Great news. Just cause the NBC 10pm weeknight schedule is locked up due to that corny-ass utterly directionless show, other people shouldn't suffer.

    In all honesty, Jay Leno's show is probably good once a week--and that's all it should appear. #southland
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    11/02/09

    In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
    Watched a couple episodes and thought it was decent, but I'm more impressed with TNT for rising up against this NBC Leno thing. Should one station's obsession with that repurposed hack, be everyone's failure? I think not. And obviously TNT agrees. Good on them. #southland
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    11/02/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Very true. #southland
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/02/09

    In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
    Excellent. I hope the show eats Leno's lunch (If Sons of Anarchy can beat him in the key demo [gawker.com] this should, too).
    Question: Since TNT and the show's producers, Warner Bros., are Time-Warner corporate siblings, does this increase the chances of there being a second season? What did they used to call that . . . synergy?
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    11/02/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: Very much so. Also, they don't have to score as many viewers to do well on TNT.
    So happy about this, I find the show and characters quite compelling. #southland
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    11/02/09

    In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
    yay!!!!!!
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    11/02/09

    @n.c.wilson: Yay indeed! #southland
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    11/02/09

    In reply to Southland Will Live: TNT Grabs the Cancelled NBC Police Drama
    Regina King must be tired, she's been running through my mind ever since the boneheads at NBC cancelled this excellent show. #southland
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    10/19/09

    In reply to Wild Things Scares Kids But Still Rules the Weekend Box Office
    yeah, yeah, yeah, 'Where the Wild Things Are' won this week for biggest grosser but thinking people want to know how Tucker Max's movie did...
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    10/19/09

    @farfull123002: Don't worry, I'm sure Tucker's movie is grosser. #wherethewildthingsare
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    10/19/09

    @MyNameIsChris: 56k for Tucker's movie. I don't think snark is necessary, the numbers speak for themselves. #wherethewildthingsare
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    10/19/09

    @Eh-ron: I don't think it was snark so much as the plain facts. #wherethewildthingsare
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    Damn you Leno, and damn you NBC. I am still bitter that Life got canned, and now this. 30 Rock is probably the only show that I watch on that network now. NBC, you are terrible.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    This has to have been a Kathy Geiss decision. I can't imagine Jack Donaghy having anything to do with this.
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    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    You know, in times like this when something really unexplainable, i.e. Leno's show, has been decided by a small group of people -- one can only surmise that it's the cover of an elaborate drug deal :[]
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    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    Wouldn't every evening at 7 p.m. be a better slot for this Leno dreck than the heavy-hitter, news-lead-in slot at 9? Watching Leon at 9 (Chicago time) is like washing down a good meal (sometimes) with YooHoo.
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    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    If you scan the comments here, it is literally 0% support of Leno -- I know we're special peoples here and all :[] but that has to somewhat mirror the sentiment of the entire TV watching population save for the oldes.

    NBC has to take notice of the retarded failure of this show. Find the Pee Wee interview clip on Hulu and watch the last 3 minutes of it for the quintessential example of how beyond idiotic, unfunny, and nonsensical that show is.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    Yep, saving money in the short term by producing nothing for no audience is a winning strategy.

    Some other network will pick this up, the way CBS snagged Medium. Or maybe NBCU will grow a spine and at least put it on USA, like L&O: Jeff Goldblum.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    "Southland, which was set to roll out October 23, will be replaced by Dateline NBC for the foreseeable future. That's right, because news is cheap and "To Catch a Predator" is never gritty—or gripping."

    Thank you.
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    Image of gabbo gabbo
    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    is Leno making the jerk-off motion?
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/09/09

    @gabbo: I believe he is indeed.
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    Image of Brad Brown Brad Brown
    10/09/09

    @gabbo: Based on my indepth study of German sexual practices, I would say it's more of a fisting motion.
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    10/09/09

    @Brad Brown: No, the fisting motion is all fingers and thumb together to form a point. Don't you know the joke about why gays never get hurt in a fight?
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    10/09/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Claims His First NBC Primetime Victim: Southland
    You know, I've worked in the TV biz for many years, and in that time I've seen some pretty bone-headed maneuvers from network executives. It is a truism that they're fantastically dimwitted bunch.

    That said, I'm still kind of shocked at the idiocy of giving Jay Leno, wholesale, a bloc of NBC's historically strongest time-slots.

    What kind of moronic calculus drove this decision? Sure, hour-long dramas are expensive to produce, but you get home video and syndication back-end, plus now online revenue. A daily talk/variety-show has no resale value, at all.

    I expect they will, eventually, come to their senses on this one. But by that time they'll have dug themselves so deep into a hole, and at such a crucial time in the TV business in terms of market presence, I don't know that they'll be able to get back out.
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    Image of SuperBien SuperBien
    10/09/09

    @lionel-mandrake: Jay Leno has video footage of Jeffrey Immelt and Jeff Zucker skeet-shooting puppies.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    10/09/09

    @lionel-mandrake: Good point. It never even occurred to me that you can't syndicate this show. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/09/09

    @lionel-mandrake: They're making Fred Silverman look like a visionary. Seriously. He only gave Hello, Larry one night, for Christ's sake.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    10/09/09

    @sarrible: If it was a sponsorship issue I could see it, but prestige (like you get with a solid drama) produces a desirable demographic skew, which means a better sponsorship base, which means higher ad rates. I just don't see that Leno has that demographic potential. Of course, there are the branded content portions of the show, but really, how much do you think they're selling that stuff for now that the initial ratings bump has vanished?
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