ROBERT GREENBLATT: Well, I think we’re going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we’d ultimately like, as we go forward. And Community is a show that has been always on the bubble, but we decided to bring it back again and see what a fourth season will do for us. The reason that we did 13 episodes of that, and a couple of our other shows, is because we really wanted to get more comedies on the schedule, and we picked up a number of new comedies for the Fall and mid-season. We just laid out the number of episodes we would need of things, in order to get new shows on, and thought, “Let’s do shorter seasons of these shows,” which isn’t to say that we couldn’t decide, at some point, to extend those seasons longer.
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ReplyDeleteBased on their attempts of board comedies last year (Chelsea and Whitney) then the majority of their new shows will be god damn awful. I don't think this approach is going to work for them, they need to address why people aren't watching NBC at all (apart from sports and The Voice).
ReplyDeleteYes something like Community and 30 Rock are more 'cult' like but a show like Parks and Rec really it should be doing better and same with Parenthood. They are kind of 'board' shows but it seems NBC is just one big turn off.
I'm not actually sure if they are going to be able to fix their problems, they need hits but well they ain't coming and based on the new shows coming out I can't see any that screams potential hit.