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...stunk up the joint," said NBC Universal president Jeff Zucker at a noontime press conference previewing the network's fall schedule for reporters. He was referring to a particular night -the low-rated Tuesday slate -but why be particular? He could have been referring to just about any part of the once number-one-now-number-four network's performance for the 2004-05 season. Thursday, when Joey found that viewers would not be there for him in nearly the numbers in which they watched Friends. Sunday, when The Contender, the boxing reality show from Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice...
...maybe NBC President Jeff Zucker ’86 ought to steal a different piece of theological wisdom: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...
...wouldn’t have come out well if there had been a big divergence between what the network wanted and what we wanted,” Daniels said. “The fact that people at the network like Kevin Reilly and Carolyn and [NBC President] Jeff Zucker [’86, and a former Crimson president] were interested in doing a faithful version of this is the reason it?...
...last laugh on the tabloids. But it would be nice if there were a few more laughs for the rest of us. Fat Actress fast devolves into a one-joke Hollywood sitcom, with your usual inside jokes, sycophants and celeb cameos (John Travolta, Kid Rock, NBC president Jeff Zucker and others). It could be called Curb Your Appetite...
...comedy is way broad (ba-dum-bump!) and when it hits, it's very funny, as when Alley complains about the double standard for chubby actors ("Jason Alexander looks like a freaking bowling ball!"). When it's bad--more often--it's amateurish. When she pitches a sitcom to Zucker, he answers, "Oh, I'm sure it will be huge. Enormous." This is as Cole Porter--esque as the repartee gets. Other plots hinge on black men who like big butts and Alley's getting mistaken for a pregnant woman. Did I mention she's overweight...