It's been tough sledding on the advertising front, and it's something that we anticipated going in and would be willing to weather if the audience in fact embraced the show. |
It's no secret that the ratings have been tough for the last couple of seasons. There's a point where you look at the ratings and you just say, 'it's time'. |
It's no secret that the ratings have been tough for the last couple of seasons. There's a point where you want to send a great show off with dignity and with some semblance of success. |
It's not dead, but I don't have any plans on it. |
It's not entirely analogous, because those movies were ready-made products you could go and acquire. With this, at best, there's probably something that's going to be a presentation for something that becomes a pilot for something that could eventually become a series. |
It's the comedy conundrum right now. You hear from the audience that they want something more than 'stupid' sitcoms. The young audience wants different form-breakers, but it's hard to get a mass-appeal show that breaks the form too much. |
Katie O'Connell was a top draft pick when she joined NBC last year and she's done a terrific job turning the lights on in our New York development office. |
Last year was horrific. We don't have the rocket fuel right now to lift us to the next level, but things are genuinely happening, and some of these shows are definitely moving in the right direction. |
Look, I'm realistic about this time period, and we're asking 'Law & Order' to do a lot here. But everyone knows there's no more resilient show on all of television. And we take the long view of the brand. In the spring, we'll figure out where this show is going to live for the next 16 years of its life. |
Look, we knew there was going to be a fallout because advertisers take a cautious approach to risky shows. We've been through it before. Our competitors have been through it. If the show performs, we find that people get comfortable and advertisers come back. |
NBC is stable and our vital signs are encouraging. Most predictions were that we were going to go from bad to worse this year, and that hasn't happened. |
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One of the things I was most excited about when I came back to NBC was repopulating the schedule with cutting-edge comedy. Win, lose or draw, these two shows are clear markers of where we want to go with the network. |
People were a little stunned, a little beaten up at the end of last (season). |
Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time. |