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Daily Show Production Team Nets Creative Freedom

Posted by Zonk on from the stephen-colbert-deserves-a-hug dept.

gremlins writes "Jon Stewart, who recently celebrated his sixth anniversary with "The Daily Show" and was a rumored possible replacement to Dan Rathers, has signed a deal which allows his production team, Busboy Productions, to develop televison projects on their own. The deal also allows Busboy Productions to flirt with other networks when looking for a home for the projects. Comedy Central still gets the right of first refusal for any projects created."

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  1. News for Nerds? by Fletch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, I like Jon Stewart. I think the Daily Show is funny. But, why is this on slashdot?

    I mean, ok, there's been a television category here for a while, but the most recent stories were about holographic TV, TV downloading, PVRs and IPTV. There's plenty of "news for nerds" angles to those stories. Did I miss it here?

  2. Re:That's cool... by srini91 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Perish the thought.
    I've heard enough of :
    • "Google is good, Microsoft is bad"
    • "We're hypocrites."
    • "Wifi is going to change or change the world."
    • "New Linux desktop released."
    • "Global warming: fact or fiction?"

    Yet, I still keep reading...
    It's nice to have monkey-controlled robots and Jon Stewart to break the cycle?