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More than 100 talkbacks attended last week’s edition of “Studio 60”; if talkback continues to warrant, we’ll try to put up posts for each of the series’ final episodes.

Last week’s installment was an odd one, given the absence of Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Bradley Whitford and any significant continuity.

Was this intended as a “banked” show, a stand-alone episode that could have been used as an emergency substituttion should “Studio 60” fall behind schedule (as “West Wing” occasionally did)?

Did it make sense that Matt and Danny would just vanish during a troubled cue-card-free live show? Even if they were off making nice with union officials in the middle of the night, could it not wait till 1 a.m.?

On the upside, we did learn that a TV show called “The West Wing” exists, or existed, in the “Studio 60” universe.

Tonight’s episode is titled “Breaking News.” NBC says:

Jordan (Amanda Peet) experiences an emergency with her pregnancy during the live show while an even larger emergency is unfolding for Tom (Nathan Corddry), while Matt's (Matthew Perry) pill use gets discovered.

The notoriously unreliable IMDb suggests that both Samantha Li (fabulous Chinese-American Camille Chen) and Lena (fabulous Chinese-Brazilian-German-American Maxine Bahns) are back tonight.

After tonight, four episodes left.

10 p.m. Thursday. NBC.

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