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Southland Canceled as Blog Fingers Point to Jay Leno

Although not a single episode of its planned second season has aired, hard-edged cop drama Southland has been cancelled by NBC, and bloggers see a clear culprit: Jay Leno....  read more

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Jokes on Late-Night Shows Often Come From Freelancers

Because so many staff writers on late-night shows have gone on to write movies and other high-profile gigs, many of us picture a collective of diligent young writers behind every monologue we see on Letterman or Leno. As it turns out, the L.A. Times reports, that often isn’t the case....  read more

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Prince to play Jay Leno three nights in a row

First, it was Conan O'Brien who devoted piles of airtime to bands like the White Stripes, The Strokes and U2. Then just last week, David Letterman invited U2 to play five nights in a row. Now, Jay Leno, the final third of the Late Night Host Triumvirate, is getting in on the action....  read more

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Jay Leno stays with NBC for The Jay Leno Show

By now, we all know the 411: Jay Leno is set to go to ABC retire in 2009, Conan O'Brien will take his slot at 11:35pm on the The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon has been given O'Brien's old chair on Late Night. As far as we knew, that was the end of the story. But nothing is clear cut in TV land these days, and NBC has announced that Leno is staying on at the network in a new time....  read more

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This Week's Music on TV

Your weekly guide to Music on TV for the week of Oct. 27, 2008...  read more

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