TV Confidential Archives Dec. 27, 2010

Show No. 71

First hour: Our annual Year in Review show, featuring a look at some of the major stories that dominated the world of television in 2010, from the NBC Late Night Debacle to Conan’s Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, to the series finales of Lost and Law and Order to the departure of Jeff Zucker, from the Bristol Palin/Dancing with the Stars controversy to watching television in a time-shift universe. Plus: David Krell discusses In All His Glory, the biography of CBS founding president William S. Paley. Second hour: Ed and Frankie discuss the rise of the so-called Alpha Boomer demographic, as well as take a look at what’s on the horizon in cable television as we enter 2011. Plus: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen remember the death of Pete Duel.