CONTINUING OUR ROUND-THE-CLOCK COVERAGE OF JEFF ZUCKER'S AGITA: As Matt mentioned below, NBC has announced that it will no longer air scripted entertainment in the 8:00 hour. I heard Marisa Guthrie from the NY Daily News say on the pictureless television I have in my car that Earl and The Office are being grandfathered, but it sounds as if FNL, 30 Rock, and 20 Good Years are either moving or dead. The rationale is that the stagnant ad revenues for the 8:00 hour (with the possible exception of Thursdays) can't match the skyrocketing costs of scripted programming. FNL, for example, costs $1.5MM more to produce per episode than Pick A Briefcase, Any Briefcase: Don't Touch The Host.
Of course, this begs the question: in a TiVo world, who cares?
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