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

No thanks.

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

The Chris Matthews Show is syndicated and Chris Matthews, IIRC, still has Hardball on MSNBC. And I happen to enjoy his panel show.

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.

BC, I understand you dislike the show but no network is going to cancel their #1 show. When you try to rebuild a network, you don't go cancelling your #1 show.

BC, I understand you dislike the show but no network is going to cancel their #1 show. When you try to rebuild a network, you don't go cancelling your #1 show.

So rebuilding the lineup around a show where your lead actor is leaving the show is the answer?

They need to get these ridiculous people out of development and start mid-season if NBC has any chance in hell of rebounding.

ETA: Furthermore Toups, I didn't really get a reaction from you on my assessment of most single-camera comedies. Wouldn't you agree that all the uncomfortable pausing and stupid human tricks are devices that are used to FORCE the audience to laugh, much like those who feel the laugh track is used to make people laugh at jokes that are or are not funny?

Edited September 28, 201015 yr by bellcurve

So rebuilding the lineup around a show where your lead actor is leaving the show is the answer?

Well, canceling a #1 show is not the answer! LOL

ETA: Furthermore Toups, I didn't really get a reaction from you on my assessment of most single-camera comedies. Wouldn't you agree that all the uncomfortable pausing and stupid human tricks are devices that are used to FORCE the audience to laugh, much like those who feel the laugh track is used to make people laugh at jokes that are or are not funny?

I don't think it forces the audience to laugh - it's either funny to you or not. The thing about single cam is that you laugh on your own - what's funny to someone may not be funny to someone else. You don't get that with laugh tracks because if you think something is not funny, you still hear laughter.

I don't think it forces the audience to laugh - it's either funny to you or not. The thing about single cam is that you laugh on your own - what's funny to someone may not be funny to someone else. You don't get that with laugh tracks because if you think something is not funny, you still hear laughter.

But hearing a laugh track doesn't make it funny either. Just ask those in charge of The Single Guy, Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan, Veronica's Closet(post-Season I), etc. Most multi-cams are taped before a live studio audience. It's not like every single scene has added laugh-track. And if it does, so what?!

I think there's so much arrogance where single cam fans are concerned. I definitely think laughing induced by forced staring matches with homoerotic overtones are every much a "conditioned response" as the laugh track.

5. Keep DOOL and Add a New Soap

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

13. Hire more A-List Stars for New Shows

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.

27. Nothing wrong with ShopNBC

5. Keeping DAYS would be a wise move since it's doing semi-well and no affiliate is going to accept anything NBC mandated in the daypart aside from DAYS. A new soap, though I'd like it, is not in the cards.

11. ABC has The View, CBS has The Talk, NBC could have The Opinion. It's probably an idea that would make money.

13. I feel exactly the opposite. A Listers are what's wrong with a lot of what NBC has been pushing for years. The 90s heyday that NBC enjoyed was due to total unknowns (Friends, Will & Grace, the cast of Frasier aside from Kelsey Grammar)...hire new talent, innovative people.

16. Bravo has just posted the best ratings it's ever had. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Bravo is run perfectly by Andy Cohen. There is a solid vision for that network and should be left totally alone.

27. Within the next 6 months or so the licensing deal ValueVision has with NBC runs out and it's been confirmed that ShopNBC will transform into something else. So far as electronic retailers go ShopNBC is a very distant 3rd, a very poor performer in contrast to HSN and QVC. It needs major fixing.

Bellcurve, you and I are SO on the same page! +1 to all your latest posts in this thread.

Rebuilding your comedy block around a show, when it's main star is leaving? That has NBC failure writen ALL over it!

As for laugh tracks, they don't force you to laugh, if something's unfunny, putting a laugh track over it doesn't make it funnier, just makes you cringe. I see nothing wrong with laugh tracks, most of them now a days are the studio audience laughing, at least that's the case with the Chuck Lorre sitcoms, he doesn't use fake ones. If the show is funny enough, you don't even notice them.

Edited September 29, 201015 yr by wingwalker

I ahte laugh tracks, well the mad eup studio ones, i love shows taped in front of an audience.

Just watch CBS if you don't like single cams (which is what most of America is doing).

See, it's that kind of thinking that got Zucker's ass fired. I'm just saying.

See, it's that kind of thinking that got Zucker's ass fired. I'm just saying.

WIN.

However, it was too late when he finally got the sack.

Never too late to try.

They need shows that are more mainstream and buzzworthy, a brand new marketing plan, and they better hire the best damn PR agency they can find to spin, I mean, bring it all out to the audience in a positive way.

<span style="font-size:18pt;">Comcast, Time Warner hire media vets to spin</span>

<span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Name Adam Miller advisor, Richard Siklos vp</span>

By Georg Szalai

<span style="font-size:120%;"> <table class="news_col" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"></table> NEW YORK -- Media giants Comcast Corp. and Time Warner have hired seasoned media and communications veterans to help them get their message out.

Comcast on Friday said it has hired public relations veteran Adam Miller as a senior adviser, and Time Warner on Monday announced the appointment of Richard Siklos as vp, corporate affairs.

"Adam is among the most trusted strategic advisers to senior managements of large corporations, particularly in the media and entertainment industry," Comcast COO Steve Burke said about Miller, who spent most of his career with the Abernathy MacGregor Group. He was most recently its president.

Siklos was most recently editor-at-large at Fortune from 2007 to 2009 after serving as media correspondent for The New York Times and other positions. He will handle external written communications and advise TW on media matters, reporting to Gary Ginsberg, executive vp, corporate affairs and marketing.

Said Ginsberg: "His breadth and depth of knowledge of our businesses, his strategic thinking and elegant writing style will be tremendous assets to Time Warner."

The Hollywood Reporter</span>

Edited October 4, 201015 yr by Sylph

<span style="font-size:18pt;">Industry backs Robert Greenblatt to run NBC</span>

<span style="font-size:12.5pt;">Strong belief that 'beloved' exec can lead turnaround</span>

By James Hibberd

<span style="font-size:120%;"> Robert Greenblatt is not running NBC -- yet -- but the prospect of the former Showtime entertainment president taking command of the network has the creative community buzzing with anticipation.

Having quit Showtime during the summer after spending seven years turning around the premium channel with a roster of critical and commercial hits including "Weeds" and "Dexter," industry rumblings continue that Greenblatt is quietly preparing to take some kind of overseer role at the troubled broadcaster once NBC Universal's merger with Comcast is complete.

Combined with NBC Uni CEO Jeff Zucker announcing he's stepping down and NBC's commitment to airing quality scripted programming this year, dealmakers are more optimistic about the Peacock's prospects.

"It's spectacular," Debbee Klein, a TV agent at Paradigm, said about the possibility of Comcast choosing Greenblatt. "They haven't had an executive of his stature since Grant Tinker and Brandon Tartikoff. The writing community would make NBC a must-stop destination if he's at the helm."

Dealmakers note that not only did Greenblatt make his perpetual second-place premium cable network a true rival to HBO, but he also had similarly smart instincts as a programming executive during his eight years at Fox during the 1990s. There, he helped develop such groundbreaking shows "90210" and "Melrose Place," lighter soaps that suggest Greenblatt's taste cannot be simply pegged to the darker critical favorites he greenlighted at Showtime.

"He's not just a guy who does one thing well," Klein said. "He's patient and has a very keen sense of material. He knows how to work with writers without stepping on their voice. Very few executives have that ability, such as [CBS entertainment president] Nina Tassler."

An insider at another talent agency dubbed Greenblatt "the opposite of Zucker. Greenblatt manages for creativity, not for margins," the source said. "He's about the artistry, not the budget. He has a consistent track record, and he takes risks. He has both a business and a creative track record; very few people have both."

A dealmaker at another agency agreed, saying Greenblatt is "beloved in the community."

"He's had three jobs, and he's killed it at every one of them," the agent said. "He's all about what's on the page. He's not a starf***er. I hope he gets the -- I hope he takes the job."

How Greenblatt will fit into NBC's leadership isn't clear, though it is likely that current programming chiefs Angela Bromstad and Paul Telegdy would report in to him. But whether he would have a straight line to incoming NBC Uni CEO Steve Burke or be tucked under NBC's current No. 1 exec, Jeff Gaspin, who also has oversight over NBC Uni's cable nets, is a big question.

Greenblatt's arrival could mean that Gaspin and/or Bromstad would be out. As overseer of unscripted, Telegdy might have more traction given that the genre is not Greenblatt's specialty, though he might have someone else in mind for the job who is more in line with his taste.

All such hopes could be dashed, however, if the Greenblatt rumors turn out to be just that. He has denied having spoken to Comcast about a job. And while top Hollywood insiders whisper about the executive potentially running one of the country's most powerful media companies, Greenblatt is in Nashville producing a theater tour of "9 to 5: The Musical." He could not be reached for comment.

Andrew Wallenstein contributed to this report.

The Hollywood Reporter</span>

Edited October 4, 201015 yr by Sylph

"Male Parenthood" is coming to NBC:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/nbc-developing-nascar-family-drama/