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lionel-mandrake
11/11/09

In reply to Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
They're moving to LA, ultimately they'll be closing down all the SF production. #currenttv
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Unsolicited Advice
11/11/09

In reply to Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
We're not losing money, these 80 people are just useless! #currenttv
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BearDownCBears
11/11/09

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Think of all the greenhouse gasses those journalists won't emit by sobbing on the couch in a pile of Cheetos rather than running their dirty ol' laptop 40 hours a week. #currenttv
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bmoreDLJ
11/11/09

In reply to The Beginning of the End of the Jay Leno Experiment
The first question I gotta ask is...what the hell were they thinkin? #jayleno
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unclevanya
11/11/09

In reply to The Beginning of the End of the Jay Leno Experiment
They will limp along with him until next spring and fulfill the contract, mainly because they have no other new programming to replace it. The point of Leno at 10 was to save money on expensive pilots. Oops!

If the news breaks that they have a new game show ready to premiere, that will be the end of Leno, since it's the only other kind of programming that will cost them as much or less.
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Magister
11/10/09

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I believe the Leno Experiment has not only eliminated NBC at ten, but it has probably dragged down their nine o'clock shows and has negatively effected viewership on all networks, across the board.

I know that I've found myself deciding not to sit down for a 9pm show, a couple of times a week because there'd be nothing coming after it, so why bother?
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PandoraSpocks
11/10/09

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I've watched it. And I cannot believe that some network asshole thought this would work AND someone else signed off on it for five nights a week.

When the unemployment rate hits 10%, is that like the opposite for TV programmers? The get to hire 10% of the idiots they owe a favor to? #jayleno
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JennaW
11/10/09

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To my shock, certain comments on this page lead me to believe that there are people who have actually watched this show! #jayleno
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SpyMagician
11/10/09

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Here, you want ratings, do the following:
- Ditch Leno.
- Get HD video of cute animals. Crisp, clear, cute.
- One hour each night of cute animal videos.

Tada! You have any idea how many people waste time during the workday staring at this stuff? MILLIONS OF HOURS! C’mon network TV; nobody wants to see talking heads. WE WANT TO SEE CUTE ANIMALS!
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thursdaynext27
11/10/09

@SpyMagician: They could do a puppycam (like those adorable shiba inus). Puppies Leno #jayleno
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Charlotte Rae's Web
11/10/09

@thursdaynext27: My heart actually got happy flutters when I saw 'shiba inus". Web video of puppies excites me more than the idea of Jay Leno. #jayleno
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SpyMagician
11/10/09

@Charlotte Rae's Web: Exactly. I’m not joking about any of this, but I think network TV barely understands what people like anymore.

HDTV makes Jay Leno’s face look uglier, but HDTV makes puppies, kittens and others look cuter! #jayleno
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Charlotte Rae's Web
11/10/09

@SpyMagician: Your research is closer in tune with what people really want than NBC execs. #jayleno
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NorthernLite
11/10/09

@SpyMagician: If Shit My Dad Says gets a show on the teevee, why not LOLCats? Each month we get closer to the complete integration of the old tube and the intertubes so it could be a live interactive show.

Hmm, I may have something here. (Or this may be like one of those ideas that sounds good in the middle of the night when you turn on the light to write it down but in the morning you read: "Goats dancing down Wall Street.") #jayleno
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SpyMagician
11/11/09

@NorthernLite: Look, this is all I knows. Some Japanese cat named Maru runs into boxes, becomes a YouTube hit and a Japanese star and guess what? That cat has a FULL DVD of his antics for sale in Japan!

THIS IS A NO BRAINER! The Japanese have a market for this! Which means the rest of the world will follow! C’MON TV EXECS, DO THIS!

[tokimeki-p.com]
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ddhboy
11/11/09

@SpyMagician: I hope this is a joke. The internet is shit when you put it on TV, sorry. Tons of shows have tried to take the "hey, people love it on the internet, so they must want to watch it on TV right?" approach and all those shows have failed miserably. For one, they almost always require some sort of input of opinion from the host, who boils it down to unfunny garbage (see: Tosh.0), they always look bad on TV graphically since they're rezzed up to work with the resolutions networks have to deal with now, and more important, when I'm watching a video of a kid falling off of his bike and into a lake or something like that on the internet, its funny because its like a minute long. I'm not going to sit down and watch that same piece of crap for 24 minutes.

If any NBC exec kills leno to replace him with an internet clip show, then they should be laughed out of their career, not only for giving Jay Leno a platform to ruin the network, but for replacing Jay Leno with an even cheaper show with a smaller audience and a worse effect in dragging down the network audience as a whole. #jayleno
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magstheaxe
11/11/09

@SpyMagician: Hey, it works as counter-programming for Animal Planet on Super Bowl Night! I LOVE PUPPY BOWL! #jayleno
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MrInBetween
11/10/09

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In the TV lexicon, "a Leno" will forever mean a colossal bet made on a certain loser. #jayleno
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CrayonSmoothie
11/10/09

@MrInBetween: Worse than getting Munsoned. #jayleno
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/11/09

@deardearfriend: @MrInBetween: Remember New Coke?
And Chevy Chase? Laughing over on Community, a decent little sitcom recently renewed for another 9 episodes on . . . NBC.
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Mike Jahn
11/10/09

In reply to The Beginning of the End of the Jay Leno Experiment
The guy is an undisputed car nut. Give him a show called "Beverly Hills Chopper." #jayleno
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mattchew03
11/10/09

In reply to The Beginning of the End of the Jay Leno Experiment
Even though it would make the show even more like it was before, I think Leno would benefit from ditching a bunch of his new (unfunny) correspondents and bringing back the old, good ones. More Ross, more Kip and Kim, more Angela (remember her laugh?), more Steve Schirripa. And if she weren't dead, the best correspondent in the show's history: Marie Rudisill, The Fruitcake Lady. I legit cried when I found out she had passed. #jayleno
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Charlotte Rae's Web
11/10/09

@mattchew03: Ross is long gone from Leno world. #jayleno
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mattchew03
11/10/09

@Charlotte Rae's Web: He actually did a Halloween/haunted house segment on the show a couple of weeks ago! It was, as usual, hilarious. #jayleno
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Charlotte Rae's Web
11/10/09

@mattchew03: ahh well, i'm wrong. i adore him but i thought they had a falling out. #jayleno
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atlasfugged
11/10/09

In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
Good work, Mr. Cook. There are some in this thread and in other threads who are criticizing you for devoting so much effort to painting Nidal Hassan as something other than a terrorist. I, for one, haven't come to this conclusion. You certainly aren't engaging in that kind of supposed moralizing here. You are simply calling out a well-known journalist who regularly appears on a nationally-televised nightly news program for a misleading, poorly-sourced, and potentially inflammatory report. It's received widespread attention and has already been misappropriated by those who would like use this incident as evidence for a broader Islamist conspiracy. It's unlikely that Ross will retract the story or even deign to provide any clarification. If the mainstream media refuses to enforce the necessary journalistic accountability, then at least we have lowly bloggers like you to point out the inconsistencies. #nidalmalikhasan
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RandomLunatic
11/10/09

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ABC News has been a muted Fox doppelganger for a while now. Ross is just proof of this. #nidalmalikhasan
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HandsomeBwonderful
11/10/09

In reply to How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
Your nitwitted nit-pickery is awesome. The guy shot and killed over a dozen people. He did it in the name of Islam. He reached out to a radical cleric in Yemen. He's part of the storm on the horizon. Cry to Keith Olbermann, maybe you can get on MSNBC. #nidalmalikhasan
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John Cook
11/10/09

@HandsomeBwonderful: Hey thanks for calling me awesome! "He reached out to a radical cleric in Yemen" is actually an accurate statement. Congratulations--you're a better reporter than Brian Ross. #nidalmalikhasan
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HandsomeBwonderful
11/10/09

@John Cook: thanks for unstarring me. You weild the power! Awesome. ly petty. #nidalmalikhasan
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John Cook
11/10/09

@HandsomeBwonderful: I figure starred commenters should actually be readers of the site, and if you read the site, you'd know that myself and many other Gawker writers have repeatedly criticized and mocked Keith Olbermann and that Gawker has been repeatedly attacked by him. #nidalmalikhasan
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