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Our Unabashed Love Letter to SMASH

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In the weeks leading up to tonight’s much-anticipated premiere, SMASH has been called many things by many people. Thus, rather than parrot an endless array of reports that have all pretty much pegged the series as GLEE for grown-ups or NBC’s last great white hope, we thought we’d take the more personal approach by proudly [...]

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Must See TV: NBC Touts Its “Brotherhood of Man”

Move over Madonna, forget you GLEE, the cast of 30 ROCK just stole your thunder with their SMASH-tastic Super Bowl promo featuring some insanely adorable cameos by many of your favorite NBC stars. Enjoy.

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Good News, Bad News: NBC, ARROW & THE FINDER

Good News: NBC has ordered a Dick Wolf-produced action-driven drama exploring the Chicago Fire Department and a Jason Katims hour-long set in an underfunded LA County Hospital. Bad News: Picking up shows that smell an awful lot like reboots of the Network’s greatest hits (See: THIRD WATCH and ER) doesn’t exactly exude confidence in the [...]

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Winter TCA Press Tour 2012: The 5 Biggest Stories to Come Out of NBC’s Executive Session

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COMMUNITY Fans: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. While NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt was quick to reinforce the fact that COMMUNITY has (a) not been canceled, and (b) will return to the air at a date to be determined in the Spring, he was slightly less forthright when asked about the potential of a fourth [...]

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NBC Gets its Mid-Season Report Card

The Good: The NFL didn’t go on strike, allowing for Sunday Night Football to be singled out as one of the only bright spots on NBC’s disastrous Fall schedule. Also good, if only because we feel somewhat bad to move onto the negative so quickly, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE had a uncharacteristically solid first half of [...]

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Scheduling Shocker! NBC Announces Midseason 2012 Moves

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The TV Gods giveth and the TV Gods taketh away. Or at least that was our taketh away following NBC’s announcement of its 2012 midseason schedule. On the positive side, joining 30 ROCK on the Peacock’s midseason schedule will be much-buzzed-about newcomers SMASH and THE FIRM. Unfortunately, making room for the highly-anticipated aforementioned series’ on [...]

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We Preview the Fairytale World of GRIMM with Executive Producers David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf

What inspired executive producers David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf to creat GRIMM, a modern day fairytale series infused with a healthy dose of horror? In anticipation of Friday’s series premiere on NBC (CTV in Canada), theTVaddict.com recently had the pleasure of taking part in a conference call to find out just that. See for yourself, [...]

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Breaking News: NBC Shuffles the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

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After a lacklustre start to the Fall, newly-minted NBC Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt announced some fairly big changes with respect to his fledgling fourth place network today, picking up new comedies UP ALL NIGHT and WHITNEY for the remainder of the 2011-12 season.

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Advertising Anarchy: We Have a Little Fun with NBC’s Just Released Fall Key Art for WHITNEY, PRIME SUSPECT, THE PLAYBOY CLUB & More!

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Earlier today NBC released an entire slew of fancy artwork touting their new Fall offerings. And while any website can mindlessly post said aforementioned artwork in the seemingly never-ending search for more eyeballs, theTVaddict.com is not just any other website. Which is why, rather than provide the Peacock Network with some incredibly valuable free advertising [...]

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TCA 2011: NBC Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt on the State of the Network, THE OFFICE sans Steve Carell, and the Future of DAYS OF OUR LIVES

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Today marks the first day of the Network portion of the 2011 Television Critics Association Press Tour, the twice-annual Los Angeles-based gathering of critics from around North America. First on the firing line, newly-minted NBC Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt. So just what did he have to say about the Network’s prospects, a Scott-free season of [...]

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