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What makes his final show’s numbers so extraordinary is that they’re the climax of a hot streak. In the two weeks preceding NBC??s removal of Conan from the 11:35 p.m. slot due to his disappointing ratings (and the failure of The Jay Leno Show), Conan’s average ratings were never higher. Two Fridays ago, Conan’s viewership was fifty percent larger than it had been the entire season. As the New York Times noted, “if even a small fraction of the?...

Author: By Avishai D. Don | Title: Nice Guys Finish Last | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

Best known for playing affable Jim Halpert on NBC??s “The Office,” Krasinski tackled one of his favorite works for his directorial debut. In adapting “Interviews” for the screen, he returns to his college roots as an English major and playwright at Brown University. Wallace’s unnamed interviewer is here given a distinct collegiate identity as Sara Quinn (an icy Julianne Nicholson), who hopes to investigate “the social effects of the post-feminist era” by conducting and recording interviews with...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Even for the United States, NBC??s standards of decency are anomalously high. The Jenny Slate sketch aired almost concurrently with Comedy Central’s weekly “Secret Stash.” This block of R-rated films and stand-up comedy begins at 1 a.m. Sunday and offers all the letter-bombs you can imagine—and even, at times, partial nudity. Comedy Central has the decency to withhold their indecency until several hours into the safe harbor, but couldn’t any “SNL”-watching kid with...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Real Need to Shelter From the F-Bomb | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Neal A. Baer, executive producer of NBC??s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” endorsed the power of stories in a talk yesterday, calling narratives “the currency of our lives” before an audience in Radcliffe Yard’s Longfellow Hall...

Author: By Janie M. Tankard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Baer Emphasizes Narrative | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

Striking a balance between humor and substance, Matt Lauer of NBC??s Today Show addressed the Class of 2009 during yesterday’s Class Day Exercises...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Day Takes a Humorous Tone | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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