NBC Television Network

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 12:22pm on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The Jay Leno Show, which premiered on September 14, gets kicked to the curb by television critic Nancy Franklin, writing in the October 5, 2009 issue of The New Yorker:

"The forensic evidence so far indicates that a kind of death is taking place before our eyes; the only question is whether what we’re witnessing is an accident or a crime scene. Despite the fact that Leno is a showbiz veteran, and that he and his team have had nine months or so to prepare (granted, for five of those months he was still busy working at his old job), the new show is full of bugs, and Leno seems louder, antsier, and more ill at ease than you want in a five-nights-a-week companion. Leno’s job, as he has defined it, calls on him to be a showman, a presenter as much as a performer. The program has the format of a variety show, a creature that was virtually extinct decades ago, even before cable and the Internet. And there’s a halting, clanking quality to it so far; if the show had an intermission, you might exchange a look with your date that said, “Should we leave? Do you want to leave? Let’s leave.”"

The full story:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2009/10/05/091005crte_television_franklin

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:32pm on Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Jay Leno is the future of TV, because he works relatively cheap, argued James Poniewozik in Time magazine on September 3, 2009:

"If The Jay Leno Show succeeds — where succeeding means not getting more viewers than the competition but simply increasing NBC's profit margin — it suggests a TV future in which ambitious dramas become the stuff of boutique cable, while the broadcasters become a megaphone for live events and cheap nonfiction. "If the Leno Show works," says former NBC president Fred Silverman, "it will be the most significant thing to happen in broadcast television in the last decade."

It's a business model that says, essentially, the mainstream has shrunk, if it exists at all. Yet the guy NBC has enlisted to usher it into this specialized world is TV's most middle-of-the-road entertainer: a "big-tent guy," he calls himself, who lives and breathes the old-fashioned something-for-everybody philosophy of broadcasting, whose icons include Jack Benny and Ed Sullivan. NBC is trying to adapt to a media future in which audiences choose from a thousand flavors by signing up with America's most successful purveyor of vanilla."

The full story:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1920038,00.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 5:52pm on Saturday, July 25th, 2009

The 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations have been announced. The Emmy Awards will be held on September 20, 2009.

NBC TV's 30 Rock lead the pack with 22 nominations. These include Alec Baldwin for best comedy lead actor and Tina Fey for best comedy lead actress.

30 Rock, the two-time defending champion, will compete against Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Weeds, Flight of the Conchords and Family Guy.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 1:18pm on Saturday, June 6th, 2009

On June 2, 2009, NBC announced that the The Jay Leno Show will premiere on September 14, 2009. The show will air Monday to Friday from 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. ET.