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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 2:52pm on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | Littlefield Memoir a 'Must-Read'?
Variety reported on November 6, 2009:
Former NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield has inked a deal with Doubleday for a memoir recounting his time at the network and the programs and personalities that went into the "Must-See TV" years.
His 20 years at NBC included supervising such programs as "Seinfeld," "Frasier," "Mad About You" and "ER."
The book comes as NBC is currently struggling in primetime and with the network potentially about to change hands if owner General Electric finalizes an agreement with Comcast.
The full story:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010914.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:55pm on Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | Jay Leno's last appearance on The Tonight Show was on May 29, 2009. Conan O'Brien takes over on June 1.
Burbank, CA - For seventeen years, Jay Leno hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, but on May 29, Leno will move on to other things, including The Jay Leno Show on NBC. Taking over for Leno on June 1 will be veteran talk show host, Conan O'Brien who will be moving to Stage 1 on the Universal Studios lot, just outside of Burbank.
The format of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien will remain similar, with celebrity and musical guests, monologue, and skits, but O'Brien will add his own unique spin on things, which is what he did as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Schedule of Guests for the First Week
Monday, June 1 - The first episode of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" with guests Will Ferrell and musical guest Pearl Jam
Tuesday, June 2: Tom Hanks and musical guest Green Day
Wednesday, June 3: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bradley Cooper and musical guest Sheryl Crow
Thursday, June 4: Gwyneth Paltrow and musical guest John Mayer Trio
Friday, June 5: Ryan Seacrest and musical guest Chickenfoot
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:38pm on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | NBC went to Oprah Winfrey before Jay Leno for a prime time show, TV Week reported on May 19, 2009:
"Before deciding to put Jay Leno in prime time, NBC offered its 8 p.m. timeslot to Oprah Winfrey.
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said that the notion of Oprah having a nightly show in prime time wasn’t a new idea.
NBC talked to Ms. Winfrey about two years ago, Mr. Zucker said. She passed but said she might have considered it earlier in her career, he said. NBC also discussed an 8 p.m. show with David Letterman when the “Late Show” host’s contract was coming up at CBS."
The full story:
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/05/nbc_went_to_oprah_before_leno.php
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:54pm on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will not star in an NBC reality TV show, TV Week reported on April 21, 2009:
"A state judge has nixed impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attempt to appear on NBC's summer reality show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here."
According to MSNBC, the Illinois judge in the case turned down the request because he believed Mr. Blagojevich wasn't taking his criminal case seriously and because he needs to participate in his own defense.
The rejection came even though NBC and Granada America had agreed to pay to have retired U.S. marshals guard Mr. Blagojevich, MSNBC reported. The ex-governor also had agreed to give up any extradition rights; the show is being filmed in Costa Rica."
The full story:
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/04/blagojevichs_reality_tv_turn_r.php
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G Johnson
Winsted Ct | Posted at 9:06am on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 | When NBC gets rid of Jeff Imelt I'll start watching NBC again
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 6:45pm on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | February 25, 2009: NBC is launching a new cooking show called "The Chopping Block," which will debut on March 11.
The new show feeatures celebrated chef and restaurateur Marco Pierre White (UK's "Hell's Kitchen"). The British Michelin star chef will offer neophyte hopeful chefs/restaurateurs a chance to compete in a restaurant challenge.
"The Chopping Block" will expose the unseen pitfalls and behind-the-scenes madness that goes into opening a restaurant -- with a grand prize of $250,000.
NBC-owned Bravo airs "Top Chef," which has just finished its best season ever. Chef averaged a record 2.1 million adults 18-49 and 2.97 million total viewers in its fifth season, up 20 percent compared to last season.
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