Jeff Zucker finally leaving NBC!

[bellcurve]

NOOOOOT surprised.

[lovely_m]

It did better than both 30 Rock and Community in both overall ratings and the demo.

[DRW50]

It's just giving minority actors work, that's what will be said...

[lovely_m]

Whatever happens with Burke, I hope he doesn't put so much emphasis on the 18-49 demo. It's the one thing that annoys me about NBC and the CW.

[wingwalker]

I totally agree. This niche comedy has got to stop. Doesn't matter how many awards they win or how much the critics love them, you got to write comedy that appeals to the masses if you want viewers. A sitcoms number one job is to make you laugh. NBC has forgotten this, CBS hasn't (or really Chuch Lorre hasn't given he's the man behind 3 of CBS's 6 comedies). NBC needs to do what ABC did last year, end them all & start all over. I so hope CBS moves CSI & expands their Thursday comedy block to 2 hours. CBS having 4 hours of successful multi-cam comedies & NBC not even having one when NBC used to be a powerhouse with those comedies...would really say something.

[Soapsuds]

I think CBS wants to make the first hour solid so when CSI is done it can add another hour of comedy to Thursday leaving only The Mentalist at 9pm..just like NBC had with thei Thursday night lineup.

[bellcurve]

Total, 100% WORD!

The new prexy at NBC would be dumb to keep all of those comedies on Thursday after the Comcast takeover. Even if NBC wanted to do a drama night on Thursdays, even that would be better than the crap that's on the network now. If CBS has a two hour block of comedies, NBC is so screwed. Especially if they keep The Office and 30 Rock.

[wingwalker]

Yeah and I hate NBC constantly saying how young viewers don't watch traditional sitcoms. Two & Half Men and TBBT basically disprove that. TBBT was getting 5.9 and a 6.0 last year in 18-49, when was the last time an NBC sitcom was getting that? The closest would have to be "The Office". I'm 23, I grew up watching Frasier, Friends, Raymond, Home Improvement, Roseanne and most of my friends and cousins did too...young people will watch mult-camera sitcoms, it just has to be funny enough. And media darling 30Rock just got it's but kicked in both total viewers AND in the demos by Crap My Dad says, which critics hated. Right there shows you critical praise don't always mean everything. Perhaps NBC needs to steal some people away from CBS's comedy development team? Or heck, how much would it take to buy Chuck Lorre out? They could have used the money they keep throwing at Jay Leno.

[bellcurve]

I hope that when Leno came back to The Tonight Show that they took that buyout away from him, so Comcast can can his ass next. $150 Mil for any performer, especially for Leno, is outrageous.

[CassieFan]

I love NBC's comedy block on Thursdays, the only one I don't watch is Community. 30 Rock will probably end next season because Alec Baldwin is retiring and The Office needs to come to an end because an office without Steve Carell isn't THE Office.

Other then that, I also enjoy Chuck and Parenthood.

[BadBoy93]

This is how i see Things.

1. Keep All The News Shows

2. Axe Any Drama doing Under 7 Million

3. Axe All The Comedies and as suggested Re-do The Lineup.

4. Get Rid Of The Marriage Ref and Possibly The Apprentice (Or Move it to Summer)

5. Keep DOOL and Add a New Soap

6. New Cast for SNL (its sucked for so long ) , Fire Leno and Fallon and either bring back O`Brien for Tonight and put Daly in Late Night. Or find new hosts.

7. Keep Who Do You Think You Are for Summer and Ditch The Two Game Shows (Poker After Dark & Minute To Win It) Or Move PAD to Saturday Nights.

8. Redo The Childen`s lineup

9. Keep Sunday Night Football

10. Look For Interesting New Show Ideas from people like Joss Whedon,Steven Moffat,Russell T Davis and so on

11. Add A Talk Show on NBC Daytime...Is Bonnie Busy ?

12. Make NBC Sports more appealing (New Logos,Anchors.etc)

13. Hire more A-List Stars for New Shows

14. Cancel The Chris Matthews Show and move him to MSNBC

15. Remove their 15% Ownership of A&E...Trust me they don`t need it

16. Bravo needs to Axe The Following Shows : 9 By Design , Double Exposure , Kell on Earth , Work Of Art , Flipped Out , One Top Chef Series , Shear Genius and Maybe Kathy Griffin. I reckon if Bravo is meant to be Reality then they need to take a more documentry approach and stop with some of these fake shows that no one cares about.

17. Either Chiller produces Original Horror Shows or Axe The Network. Maybe A New Anthology Series

18. Maybe axe mun2

19. Axe the majority of Shows on Oxygen and Make New programming aimed at Woman of all ages

20. Nothing wrong with Syfy. But seeing as they now have Smackdown , i reckon they should make it PG-13 and get some of their older audience back.

21. Sleuth need to produce original Crime/Mystery shows or face the axe

22. Telemundo can stay

23. Axe Universal HD

24. USA I reckon need darker material. Make WWE Raw PG-13 Again.

25. Nothing wrong with CNBC

26. Nothing wrong with MSNBC

27. Nothing wrong with ShopNBC

28. Syndication : Axe Jerry Springer (His Time is way up) , Keep On Maury for another few years , Keep Wall Street Journal Report but give it more stations , Axe Chris Matthews and move him to MSNBC , Ax Your Total Health , Maybe Axe Steve Wilkos , Bring Jeremy Kyle to The US (You will love JK) and perhaps do a Syndicated Drama. Oh and keep Deal Or No Deal. Keep Access Hollywood , Converge Both Jack Hanna`s shows into one. Keep Judge Karen or replace her with a better judge.

I`ll add more if there is any else.

[CassieFan]

I don't agree they should keep all the new shows. Chase sucks bad and I hear Undercovers aren't that great either. I hope they will stick with Parenthood because it is a really great show.

[Laurie]

I enjoy Community, 30 Rock and The Office. And I also enjoy Parenthood. Hope these 4 shows stick around.(Well actually I will get it, if TO does end this season. Kind of hard to imagine Dunder Mifflin Sabre without Michael Scott)

[Sylph]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ia720786bb43ba0b02994ed95edaab19c

[bellcurve]

Building one's entire lineup around The Office is doomed for failure. Time to end that disaster with Steve Carrell leaving. They don't even need to attempt to build programming around it.

If this guy keeps The Office on the air, then he'll prove he doesn't have what it takes to cut losses and start fresh. It's time to launch shows that have more mass appeal. No matter how "GREAT!!!!!" the 18-49 demos are for The Office, the show proves it can't jazz up the rest of the Thursday Night lineup. The Office doesn't even win its timeslot. That used to mean cancellation/shuffling in NBC's world. Today, failure means acceptance, promotion.