Flagging Post-'Friends' NBC Seeks Midseason Boost
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NBC, off to a rocky post-"Friends"  start in the ratings this fall, is counting on a rebound with  supernatural dramas, quirky comedies and a supermodel reality  show, its executives said on Wednesday.
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For NBC, currently ranked dead last in  U.S. television's Nielsen ratings, success in the new broadcast  season may just mean merely rising to third place as the  once-dominant network draws closer Wall Street scrutiny.
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NBC presents a familiar lineup for its first post-"Friends" Thursday: a spinoff, a sequel and a knockoff.
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NBC Universal said some of its news, entertainment, and sports television programming will be available for use on blogs, social network profiles, and the like as widgets.
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Despite the Hollywood writers' strike, the big TV networks have more than a hundred episodes of scripted series ready to roll out over the next few months. The bad news for viewers: Few are fan favorites.
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Fox will post episodes this week of returning series such as âPrison Breakâ and âBones,â along with new shows such as âK-Ville.â
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I love Twitter, but there have been a lot of problems, and this is too much. They're taking it down tonight, for two hours, and we're hot on a big story, and it's developing -- on Twitter. This seems like a bad night for Twitter to go to sleep. (But there probably never is a good night.) I don't think the Twitter guys really understand how much we're doing with their service.  It's been going down a lot lately. And while other people have been complaining about it losing posts, I had never seen it lose one, until yesterday, and now it's losing them regularly, for me too. Read the first three words of this post again.  They raised $5 million, it seems now it's time for them to get the bugs out, hire some people who really understand scaling, if necessary re-implement the system from the ground up. Do whatever is needed to make it as reliable as the other tools we depend on. We need Twitter to work. It's not a fun experiment for us, we're using it.  Jack, Ev, Biz, Fred -- please take note. Postscript: The announcement changed, now they're saying it'll be down on Sunday night. Much better. Thanks!
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Fans of the popular U.S. TV show  "Desperate Housewives" may be dying to discuss last night's  episode, but the odds are that their friends and co-workers  watched something else.
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They watch TV so you don't have to. An army of bloggers have been parsing every second of tonight's Emmy broadcast in a form that's come to be called "live-blogging." Quips, riffs and rundowns are the tools of this trade. The best of these blogs unfold like watching the show with an outrageously funny friend.
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Gabe: I'm pretty frustrated with the Dunder Mifflin Infinity ARG. The site functionality is just trash. The biggest offense is the piece of shit forum they've got. It's the one way for the whole branch to talk together and it's absolute crap. Also I still can't hire new employees. There's almost 1500 people waiting to join the Spokane branch but trying to hire anymore than two at a time breaks the site for me. I contacted tech support last week and never heard back. A couple people have suggested that the website being shitty is on purpose. I don't know if I'm ready to believe it's all some ironic joke. What I do know is that interacting with their game is frustrating and I'm not sure I want to bother with it anymore.
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CBS has launched an  expanded online presence for its new apocalyptic drama  "Jericho." To tide over fans who will be missing the show  during its midseason hiatus, the new Web site  http://www.WhoDroppedTheBomb.com has been stocked with new  features, including webcasts of episodes with commentary  tracks, a "Jericho" wiki encyclopedia and sneak peeks at  upcoming episodes. "Jericho" resumes its run February 14.
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Numbingly low Nielsen ratings for last week made it clear why NBC this week hired a new team to oversee its prime-time entertainment department.
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By SCOTT COLLINGS Los Angeles Times  HOLLYWOOD - NBC has called a Hail Mary pass with one of its new fall shows.   Its a weekly drama set against the backdrop of prep sports, a relatively unglamorous world that hasnt yielded a TV hit in nearly 30 years.
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Even as their supply of new programs dwindles during the months-long writers' strike, major TV networks continue to try to capture online viewers. Streaming free full-length episodes on their own websites was just the beginning. Episodes from ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are showing up on an assortment of sites, from big destinations such as AOL to newcomers Veoh and MeeVee.
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NBC said on Thursday it has given  the go-ahead to produce at least nine more episodes of "Joey,"  the "Friends" spin-off starring Matt LeBlanc, making it the  first new sitcom in prime time to receive a full-season order.
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Midseason power rankings. What went right, what went wrong, and what to expect in the second half: