Hey, I know the score: It's a tough time for big network TV execs. Gone are the 1970's, when people had few entertainment choices other than the big three (four) networks, and pretty much any product that wanted to reach a TV audience had to do so by paying a king's ransom to NBC, CBS, and the like. Now I have 800 gazillion channels and Tivo, so I don't need to watch a single TV the rest of my life. It's awesome.
So I know NBC has to square its own network promotion in its own shows. I get it. But that doesn't make it any less lame (via TSB):
Seriously, NBC, just tell us you're having the Olympics. Just make Tracy Morgan about-face the camera and scream it from the top of his brilliantly deranged lungs: The Beijing Olympics! This summer! On NBC!What!
It wouldn't exactly be "integrity," but it'd be much closer.
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NBC Ruins Perfectly Good 30 Rock With Beijing Olympics Promotion
Posted May 14th 2008 11:10AM by Eamonn Brennan
Filed under: TV and Movies, Beijing
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1. 30 Rock regularly works in references to NBC programming (sometimes taking swipes at it as well). It would be really annoying if it wasn't almost always funny and understandable within the context of the show.
I'm just waiting for the Olympics on NBC with Seinfeldvision!
Posted at 11:33AM on May 14th 2008 by August West