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V.22 No.21 | 5/23/2013

Idiot Box

In With the New

Networks add scads of shows to fall season

By Devin D. O’Leary

Last week, we took a glimpse at all the shows the networks were tossing away at the end of this season. So let’s look over all they’ll be adding in the fall.

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V.22 No.20 | 5/16/2013
 

Idiot Box

Out With the Old

Networks sweep aside underperforming shows

By Devin D. O’Leary

The last of the 2012-13 season finales are wrapping up, and the networks are in severe “cut our losses” mode. Last weekend, the broadcast networks started announcing their new shows for fall 2013. That means programmers have to make room in their schedules for all the new content. That’s bad news for a lot of folks in Hollywood who got a mess of pink slips last week telling them that their prime time meal tickets had been canceled.

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V.21 No.48 | 11/29/2012

Idiot Box

The New Normal?

NBC No Longer The Biggest Loser

By Devin D. O’Leary
This year’s fall sweeps marks the first time in 10 freaking years that NBC has been the top-rated network.

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V.21 No.44 | 11/1/2012

Idiot Box

Electile Dysfunction

Your Guide to Election Night 2012

By Devin D. O’Leary
Starting early in evening, your television will be a sea of pundits in red or blue ties showing off a string of slowly accruing exit poll numbers and electoral college counts. Devin O’Leary provides a few basic tips on how to survive without going crazy.

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V.21 No.21 | 5/24/2012
 

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You’re Outta Here!

The Canceled Shows of 2012

By Devin D. O’Leary

The broadcast networks have already started showing off their shiny new fall schedules. That means, of course, the conspicuous absence of several shows you may or may not have liked. Yup, the ax has fallen, and a whole host of network shows have been canceled. Some escaped by the skin of their teeth. (ABC’s low-rated but highly regarded “Cougar Town” is moving to TBS in 2013.) Others emerged battered and beaten. (Fan-fave “Community” will return next season. For a truncated 13 episode run. On Friday nights. Paired with “Whitney.” Also, creator Dan Harmon was told to take a hike.) So which shows are gone, gone, gone?

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V.21 No.1 | 1/5/2012

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Replace This

A look at midseason replacements

By Devin D. O’Leary

Welcome to the start of a brand-new year, 2012 A.D. Or as we in the television biz call it: midseason. It’s time to put all the traumatic memories of the fall 2011 season out of our brains (“Charlie’s Angels” reboot? What “Charlie’s Angels” reboot?) and start pinning our hopes on a whole new crop of replacements. Let’s take a gander at what’s in store for us.

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