The Skinny: Is it football deteriorate yet? Oh, well. Thursday’s headlines embody layoffs during Walt Disney Co., China yanks “Django Unchained” and Fox tries a new approach to keep viewers examination during commercials.

Daily Dose: When does synergy cranky a line into shameless self-promotion? Watchers of “NBC Nightly News” get to consider about that all a time. The many new instance was this week when, during a story about North Korea’s stepped-up chief activity, a stage from a “Weekend Update” shred of “Saturday Night Live” was used to illustrate a point. It felt inappropriate. Of course, it’s no tip that NBC News anchor Brian Williams is a large “SNL” fan. A few weeks behind he even did an object on “SNL” ratings during a newscast.

Dark day. Walt Disney Co. is laying off about 150 people during a film studio unit. While that is a comparatively tiny series given that Walt Disney Studios employs about 7,000 people, it still mixed a town. Given that a infancy of Disney cinema come from a Pixar and Marvel units, a pleat of a ranks during a possess in-house studio isn’t a finish shock. Disney pronounced in a statement, “As partial of an ongoing examination to safeguard that a studios’ operational structure and economics align with a final of a stream marketplace, we have done a formidable preference to revoke a staffing levels in several groups of a studio.” Details on a cuts from a Los Angeles Times and Deadline Hollywood. 

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Django chained. Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” was pulled from film theaters in China on a really initial day of release. No reason over “technical issues” was given. The bloody film had already been edited to damp a Chinese government. The preference held distributor Sony off guard. The film has been heavily marketed in China in allege of this week’s premiere. Details from a Los Angeles Times and New York Times.

That’s one approach to get a new deal. On Tuesday, a New York Times pronounced Alec Baldwin was in talks with NBC to take over Carson Daly’s speak show, that front during 1:30 a.m. On Wednesday NBC poured some cold H2O on that one by announcing it had sealed Daly to an extension. Oops. More on Daly’s understanding from a Hollywood Reporter.

Split screen. Obsessed “American Idol” fans will have a worse time going to a lavatory during Thursday night’s episode. That’s since Fox is doing divided with normal blurb breaks. Instead, ads will be shown on a separate shade along with a behind-the-scenes demeanour during a show. Variety explains how Fox is perplexing to keep viewers intent while feeding them commercials.

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Inside a Los Angeles Times: HBO’s “Veep” will start a second season this Sunday.

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