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...Universal Television Group President A. Jeffrey Zucker ’86, for one, says he respects Russert all the more for his commitment to making no distinction between the powerful and the barely known...
...consummate professional who is enmeshed in the political fabric of this country—but who never ever forgets where he came from—and can talk to the president and a factory worker at the same time with the same charm and same skill,” Zucker says...
...upfronts, usually designed to put lipstick on the most porcine of network lineups, Zucker and new NBC programming chief Kevin Reilly, promised straight talk and candor -to a point. "We're not where you want us to be. We get it," Zucker told advertisers at NBC's Radio City Music Hall show, which in the happy-talk world of the upfronts is the equivalent of committing ritual suicide. (Last year, Zucker vowed to advertisers that the new Thursday night lineup, with Joey and The Apprentice, would get even higher ratings than the previous season's, which featured the last year...
...unusual move, Reilly and Zucker -whose network presented first at the upfronts -repeatedly stressed that they could switch things around depending on what the competition announced. Here's the schedule! We love it! Except we might not love it by the end of the week! But don't worry -we've got a whole stack of schedules where this one came from! (This despite the fact that the whole purpose of the upfront is to give advertisers a concrete schedule to pay to advertise on -but hey, it's not my money, so not my problem...
...announce some definite decisions. Kinda. American Dreams, The Contender, and Law and Order: Trial By Jury are canceled. (Zucker did tell reporters that Dick Wolf -the tremendously powerful producer of the Law and Order franchise -might figure out a way to bring back the series in some form. Then he immediately told us not to read anything definite into that statement. Except, I suppose, that it's a bad idea to tell your network's biggest producer that he is definitely, 100% for sure canceled.) Revelations is not returning, but then again it might, an oddly apt fate...