• Late night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are considering airing new episodes starting in January whether or not the writers strike is resolved. Going back on the air without their scribes would be no laughing matter. Literally.
• 30 Rock has blended the show with American Express commercials, thanks to “podbusters”—a.k.a., short segments starring the 30 cast that have nothing to do with that episode’s plot. We remember watching the last podbuster on our Sony 52-inch LCD television—the picture quality was fantastic!
• A new brand of DVR can hold 2,300 hours of programming. That’s almost enough to record all the fights on The View this year.
• Andre Birleanu, a contestant on America’s Most Smartest Model, claims that VH1 is destroying his career by forbidding him from responding to allegations that he molested two women. “They tell me not to say anything, but then they don’t stand up for me,” said Birleanu, who pouted—and was promptly offered a fragrance campaign.
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