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The 10 Best TV Finales of All Time

The 10 TV shows listed here bowed with grace. Here's hoping Lost was taking notes.  read more

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Conan O'Brien's Best NBC Jokes

I’m glad that 90 percent of my Twitter and Facebook friends have announced that they’re on “Team Conan,” but I don’t really think there’s a Team NBC outside of the NBC headquarters. Am I right? Team NBC, are you out there? No? Good. Anyway, from the moment he announced that he wouldn’t go along with NBC’s dumb plan to bump The Tonight Show’s time slot for Jay Leno, Conan has handled the situation with resolve, grace and a whole lot of humor. Here are eight awesome jokes he’s made since the big announcement....  read more

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Conan O'Brien Says No to Tonight Show Time Change

As far as NBC hosts go, Jay Leno has been getting most of the attention lately. But Conan O’Brien released a statement this afternoon making it clear that if his show’s network does indeed push The Jay Leno Show to 11:35 p.m. (a change NBC confirmed last week), O’Brien will walk....  read more

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David Lloyd: 1934-2009

Television writer David Lloyd, highly regarded for his comedic work on Frasier, Cheers and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died early last week of prostate cancer, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 75....  read more

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Andy Richter rejoins Conan O'Brien on The Tonight Show

The last few weeks of Late Night with Conan O'Brien was a trip down memory lane for old fans, which featured clips of many Conan's greatest moments interspersed with some of the strongest comedy bits and guests in its history. But for longtime fans it was a little bittersweet, as almost all of these were Conan alone, to the point where his chubby sidekick from the early days Andy Richter was edited out. On his final show, though, Conan's last non-musical guest was his old friend, and clips suddenly included some of the funniest bits with both of them....  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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