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unbibium ([personal profile] unbibium) wrote2008-12-08 10:03 pm
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Jay Leno

In most of the country, we'll soon be seeing Jay Leno at 10PM.

Which means in Arizona we'll see him at 9PM.

The article explains how the math works out: why buy five dramas at $3 million per episode for 24 weeks, when you can run this show all five nights, for less than that per week, for 46 weeks?

It's business news like this that make me think that there's a lot of fat this country is going to burn, before we start burning the muscle.

[identity profile] pootrootbeer.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Are Jay Leno's talk show and a network TV drama equivalent from the perspective of entertainment value?

How about from the perspective of artistic value?

[identity profile] pentomino.livejournal.com 2008-12-11 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
You can't deposit entertainment value in a bank.