Stereo audio in post with 2 talking hosts

First, I'd like to thanks everyone that takes a moment to read this. I've stumbled upon an editing gig on a local PBS show and I'm more familar with FCP7 not X and broadcast tv in general so any advice is greatly appreciated.
I've got a stereo clip, recording two talent talking on L and R channels during a table interview. I'm not sure how I should handle this in post. If i leave the stereo tracks as is, I get one automatically panned far Left (screen left is the talent) and Panned far right (talent on the right). While this makes sense, isn't tv usually panned center for conversation? At the least I thought it might be a good idea to pan closer to center for each channel, but I don't know how.
Secondly, I noticed the woman talent on the right has this weird "moaning" escape her mouth as she's thinking and the other male guest on the Left is talking! How would I go about Ducking audio on that one channel?
Not sure if I should go about this as dual mono or keep in stereo??? Thoughts? Thanks a million guys.

what i ended up doing on top of making dual mono, is cutting up just the part that has the weird noises, then adding a quieter passage of sound over the left side, then doubling the dual mono on the right speaker. This seems to mask the issue pretty well.
As for TV sound, does anyone know if they pan hard right/left for speakers or is it generally dual mono centered? Thanks

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