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Appearing to thumb its nose at striking writers, NBC has begun promoting its midseason schedule by announcing that it "will have more new stuff than anybody else -- with seven new premieres in the first ten days" of the year. Meanwhile, L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke said on her Deadline Hollywood blog early today (Wednesday) that behind-the-scene efforts by DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg to bring about a compromise that would have allowed negotiations between the writers and studios to resume have failed and that the television networks are planning to write off not only the rest of the season but also the pilot season for next fall as well, replacing many of the shows with new reality series and its news magazine Dateline. (The network has scheduled four hours of Dateline for this week alone.)
