’30 Rock’ Ends 7-Season Marathon Of Mirth
The NBC sitcom ended its run with just the right note: the sort befitting “30 Rock,” with its loopy storytelling mixed with joy in spoofing the culture of TV. Closure, if that’s what it is, came in a two-minute postscript on this hour episode Thursday.
Exclusives
NBC, CBS and ABC were to hold settlement talks with Dish Network regarding their litigation over the Hopper DVR. But the networks wanted to cancel and a meeting was postponed until a ruling on a preliminary injunction.
NBC News was the most-watched broadcast or cable television network, drawing an average of 5.081 million viewers during its 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. broadcast, according to Nielsen ratings. CBS News averaged 3.671 million; ABC News averaged 3.922 million.
Following a top-rated Golden Globes telecast, NBC has promoted Doug Vaughan to EVP special programs and latenight programing, adding such things as the Tonight Show to his purview.
NBC entertainment chief Bob Greenblatt had expressed confidence that the long-running soap, which hits its 12,000th episode this week, would stay on the air.
NBC is holding up the return of two of its most popular shows, Revolution and Grimm, until March so that it can air only new episodes for the remainder of the season.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On his upcoming NBC comedy, Michael J. Fox will play a newscaster who had quit his job due to Parkinson’s Disease but returns to work in […]
“We’re just trying to find concepts that are more inclusive for a larger audience to come to,” NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt tells reporters.
Games will air on CBS, Fox and NBC beginning Jan. 5, leading up to Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3.
ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox got a step closer today to shutting down Alki David’s online streaming of their shows. Judge George Wu on Thursday granted the networks their mutually desired tentative preliminary injunction against the digital entrepreneur’s Aereokiller service.
NBC has given Whitney a pickup for three additional episodes, bringing its second-season order to 16 episodes.
The upcoming second season, which welcomes new host Louise Roe, will launch in early March.
ABC’s Good Morning America has won its first television sweeps month in nearly 20 years, reflecting its newfound status as America’s No. 1 morning show. Nielsen ratings released today showed that GMA averaged 5.31 million viewers in November, 466,000 more than NBC’s Today show.
As It Nears The End, Lessons From ’30 Rock’
The ad industry might borrow a page from this nerdy NBC sitcom. Like her character Liz Lemon, Tina Fey is perhaps an unrecognized genius … just one who had to work harder to make her smarts seem sexy.
Sony Pictures Television said Wednesday that the actor is leaving the sitcom by mutual agreement with producers. His immediate departure means he won’t be included in the last episode or two of the show’s 13-episode season, which is still in production.
It’s been nine long years but NBC’s primetime lineup has made the network No. 1 in this year’s November sweeps. “This is the first time we’ve been this happy in a long time,” said NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt today. “It is possible to move the needle. There is a spring in our step,” he added.
