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Jay Tarses, creator of the brooding but critically acclaimed “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd,” on Brandon Tartikoff and his top-rated network after “Molly” once again failed to make NBC’s fall schedule: “They have ‘No. 1’ parties over there. They put on their devil outfits and dance around a bonfire and throw people with college educations into a pit or something.”