Last Night’s TV: Jon Stewart Needs a New Desk

Good news, fans of snarky news commentary! Last night Comedy Central announced that they signed an extension with Jon Stewart to host The Daily Show through June 2013. And here’s hoping one of the provisions allows for Mr. Stewart to get a new desk, since he seems none too happy with the current one.

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Respect Her Authority! Comedy Central Prez Buys in Harrison for $4.44 M.

Doug Herzog, the head of MTV Networks Entertainment, credits Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless with that network’s duckling-to-swan transformation from repository for syndicated sitcoms and stand-up acts to a hallowed home for envelope-pushing original content. In the trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable, Mr. Herzog even calls her “one of the key architects of Read More

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The Price of Free

For the past few years, media buffs have been waiting for the elusive answer to a simple question: When is what’s on TV going to really start acting more like what’s on the Web? It’s a two-part question, really, and the answer isn’t nearly as clear as you might think.

The first part has to Read More