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The more Alec Baldwin, the funnier the show is. Not that bad of an episode but I think it lacks energy. I didn't like Arrested Development but it was a great example of a comedy with energy!

This episode was the funniest of the season. The last scene between Baldwin and the page was hysterical. They really need to push the rest of the cast this episode shows there could be a gems hidden.

Hate to admit it but Alec is the best thing on this show...

I don't mind admiting that the page is the best thing on this show.

Alec was brilliant. I cracked up when he lost his cool and got scared when the page abruptly appeared at the first poker game. "In five years, we'll all be working for him... or we'll all die at his hands." (quoted as best as possible from memory)

The Tina Fey plot was really good as well: her funniest bit thus far.

I'm beginning to enjoy this show. Ergo, it will be cancelled!

Am I the only one watching this because of Tina Fey? I like her quiet humor.

Baldwin is excellent, as usual.

You are not alone. Fey is the main reason I decided to tune into this show.

I still have one more episode to catch up on, but I didn't laugh (or even chuckle) once during my watching of the second episode. I had great hopes for the humor on this show, but so far I'm disappointed. I thought the pilot was better than #2. I'll watch #3 tonight. I do not think Tracy Morgan and posse is a worthwhile addition, and certainly doesn't seem to increase the humor level as far as I'm concerned.

Even more disappointing is the extremely low [digital] audio level... seemingly even worse than the rest of NBC as a whole. I actually had to turn the volume up last night, meaning it was even lower than my "minimum tolerance threshold" for audio variability between programs and channels.

Maybe that's why I'm not laughing... can't hear them!

yep,I'm watching mostly for Tina,but she was never a particularly good writer or even that funny(and has only average acting ability),but she's damn hot,scar and all.

Count me as one who likes this show. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard.

I came across this thread and thought it would be a big love fest on how hilarious 30 Rock is. I am shocked that some people are slamming it. We had a saying in the Army: "You need to go down to the Quartermaster and be issued a sense of humor."

It's nice to see a show that has unpredictable and off-the-wall writing. The whole yacht theft plot was hilarious. The show takes all kind of risks with edgy sexual and racial humor. I think it's brilliant. FYI, it's available for free download at NBC.com.

Baldwin's Hannibal the Cannibal bit was outstanding!


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I have seen a few people post that they don't think she is a good writer but I thought she was one of the few funny things on SNL not to mention her movie "Mean Girls" was well written and funny and insightfull and I believe she wrote that as well. This recent episode was heads above the others. I was about to give up on it but if they have more like this episode I might stick around.

That was a priceless moment. Baldwin is like Lawrence Olivier. He steals every scene! Here is the original speach from the Silence of the Lambs:

DR. LECTER (contd.)
You're sooo ambitious, aren't you...?
You know what you look like to me, with
your good bag and your cheap shoes? You
look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hust-
ling rube with a little taste... Good
nutrition has given you some length of
bone, but you're not more than one gen-
eration from poor white trash, are you -
Officer Starling...? That accent you're
trying so desperately to shed - pure
West Virginia. What was your father, dear?
Was he a coal miner? Did he stink of
the lamp...? And oh, how quickly the boys
found you! All those tedious, sticky
fumblings, in the back seats of cars,
while you could only dream of getting out.
Getting anywhere - yes? Getting all the
way - to the F...B...I.

This past episode was the best yet...it's improving...I hope it stays...if this goes, we'll get 2 hours of the Biggest Loser or something.

I think 30 Rock will get a ratings boost paired with Office, Earl and Scrubs on Thursday nights starting Nov. 30th. Hopefully, it can build on this past episode in the meantime.

I also was about ready to ditch the show, but this last episode will keep me watching for awhile.

I saw the opening of blind date and thought it had promise so I recorded it. It's actually good (the pilot was pretty awful). I think they figured out something: Tracy Morgan is the least funny person on the show. He's HORRIBLE! He's never been funny, he'll never be funny. He just sticks out like a sore thumb.

Alec Baldwin is brilliant. I like Tina Fey too. her bit with the lesbian date was funny and not forced. Too bad this couldn't have been the pilot.

One small problem I have is that a few of the jokes were more or less done on other shows. The "living alone and dying with no one to find you" telephone conversation was pretty much the same phone conversation Miranda had with Carrie on Sex and the City (except Miranda was worried her cat would eat her corpse). Alec Baldwin's thumbing through wads of cash was done on SNL when he walked around "tipping" the crew "NYC-style". There was another joke I can't remember that was very much like a joke on The Office.

Only problem... it's on opposite (1) Grey's Anatomy, and (2) CSI: Original. Personally, I only watch (2), but many watch both.

Since DVR's only have two live/recording tuners, this will present a tricky scheduling problem for Thursday nights, for both "30 Rock" at 9:30PM as well as "Scrubs" at 9PM. Something will have to be compromised (perhaps ratings, for either?), or you'll actually have to watch something "live" on a second TV or OTA while the DVR cooks!!! EGADS!

Or, as I do, you get a second DVR.

With the networks pitting their best shows against each other during the same time slots, 2 DVR's have become a necessity in my house.

Getting tiresome, and not funny. Lots of very quiet time. Tracy Morgan is NOT a valuable addition. No sign of Jane Krakowski in quite a while, nor Rachel Dratch.

The only time I smiled this week was when Tina Fey strutted into the writers' room in slow-motion to "Who's That Lady?", in her hot blue dress as picked out for her by the blonde impossible-character and tossing her hair with a head flip. Predictable, expected, but very amusing.

Small chuckle when Alec Baldwin said he went to Anne Coulter's 60th birthday party.

Other than that, I think this one's on borrowed time already.

This episode was a bit of a letdown after a good one last week. Cyrie? provided some nice eye candy. The exchange between Tina Fey and Baldwin when he's with the GE execs was sooo predictable.

here let me give you a little advice..........live every week...like shark week


I LOLed

On October 28 at a Post Production Seminar at Postworks Irene Burns associate producer (post production) of "30 Rock" said the show is shot on 35mm and telecined to HDCAM SR format which is

HDCAMSR format
4:4:4 video samping 10-bit resolution 1920x1080 pixels CIF (common image format) raster using MPEG-4 Studio Profile intra-frame compression for progressive images.

Just so you know this format's video data rate is 440Mbps on tape.
This is top of the line video format that is the same format that "Superman Returns" was recorded in the field on.

Take that you broadcasters/cable television service providers and shove it down your narrow pipe 19Mbps ATSC!


At the same time it is telecined from film to HDCAM-SR, it is also recorded to Digital Betacam for the standard definition version deliverable. (presumably 4:3 center cut...)

^ Wow, 30 Rock would look great on CBS! Unfortunately, it's on bandwidth-starved NBC.

Add to that (3)The OC and (4)Supernatural and (5)30 Rock will be in big trouble. That's just too many popular shows in competition for a newcomer to do any good. I think it's a death sentence for the show.

Overnights in the 18-49 Demo
No Thursday juice for NBC's '30 Rock'
Flagging comedy pulls a 2.3 rating in adults 18-49
By Toni Fitzgerald MediaLifeMagazine.com staff writer Nov. 17, 2006

A new night did little to help NBC's struggling new comedy 30 Rock.

In its supersized Thursday premiere last night, and with the benefit of a decent Office lead-in, Rock averaged a disappointing 2.3 adults 18-49 average, according to Nielsen overnights. Final ratings may vary slightly, as fast nationals measure timeslot and not actual program data, and "Rock" bled through several timeslots.

The show, which aired from 9:20 to 10:01 p.m., lost nearly half of The Office's 4.3, and drew only 5 million total viewers.

Granted, it aired against some of the toughest competition on television in ABC's Grey's Anatomy and CBS's CSI, both of which were up from the previous week.

But Rock was below NBC's modest 3.8 average for Deal or No Deal in the 9:30 timeslot last week. And it was slightly below the show's season-to-date 2.4 average for four episodes in the Wednesday 8 p.m. timeslot.

Yet NBC probably won't write off Rock just yet. In addition to being written, created by and starring network golden girl Tina Fey, the show still hasn't aired with its new Thursday lead-in.

NBC will premiere Scrubs on Nov. 30 at 9 p.m., pairing the dryly humored sitcom with the similarly biting Rock. If Rock can't improve then, it may be gone by Christmas....

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/art...ticle_8634.asp

(From Marc Berman's Friday, Nov. 17, 2006, Programming Insider blog at Mediaweek.com )

.. Over at NBC, the Thursday debut of sitcom 30 Rock (a 45-minute installment) fell considerably flat. Since the first 15-minutes of 30 Rock shared the 9 p.m. half-hour with the last 15-minutes of The Office, the only clean results was a lackluster 4.96 million viewers and a 2.3/ 6 among adults 18-49 (a distant third in both categories) from 9:30-10 p.m.

http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/t...451/m/30210902

TV Notebook
NBC: 30 Rock On
FRESHMAN COMEDY RECEIVES FULL-SEASON PICKUP
NBC News Release)Published: December 1, 2006

BURBANK, Calif. - December 1, 2006 - NBC's freshman comedy "30 Rock" (Thursdays, 9:30-10 p.m. ET) has been picked up for a full-season order for 2006-07, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, NBC Entertainment.

"In '30 Rock,' Tina Fey and Lorne Michaels, along with stars Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, have the goods with this excellent comedy," said Reilly. "We look forward to future episodes of this bright new show, which is right on-brand for our Thursday-night comedy block."

In its first regular telecast in the Thursday 9:30 p.m. (ET) half-hour on November 30, "30 Rock" averaged a 3.0 rating, 7 share in adults 18-49 and 6.6 million viewers overall, according to preliminary "fast affiliate-based" ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Pending updates, this is the highest-rated telecast of "30 Rock" to date in adults 18-49 -- with a 25 percent increase on the comedy's previous Thursday telecast (2.4/6 for a November 16 "super-sized" episode from 9:20-10:01 p.m. ET). With its four Wednesday telecasts earlier this Fall, "30 Rock" averaged a 2.4 rating, 7 share in adults 18-49, and 6.4 million viewers overall.

After airing its super-sized episode on November 16 (9:20-10 p.m. ET), the series moved to its regular time period on Thursdays (9:30-10 p.m. ET) beginning last night.

"30 Rock" is told through the comedic voice of the Emmy Award-winning Fey (NBC's "Saturday Night Live," "Mean Girls") and features Alec Baldwin ("The Departed," "The Cooler") as Jack Donaghy, the brash new network executive who has turned the show upside down with his meddling ways. Fey, as the single Lemon, is living every comedy writer's dream -- head writer on a demanding, live TV program in New York City.

Her life is jolted when Donaghy interferes with her show, and bullies Lemon into convincing Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan, "Saturday Night Live," "The Longest Yard"), a wild and unpredictable movie star, to join the cast. Now Lemon must manage the unmanageable so that the show -- and her dream -- can go on.

Also rounding out the cast in the half-hour comedy are: Jane Krakowski ("Ally McBeal") as Jenna Maroney, the star of "The Girlie Show"; Scott Adsit as Pete Hornberger, the variety show's producer; Jack McBrayer as Kenneth the Page, the over-eager NBC Page -- a highly sought-after, entry-level position with the network; and Judah Friedlander as Frank, the crass and wisecracking writer. Rachel Dratch, also from "Saturday Night Live," appears in multiple episodes, playing a variety of different characters on the series.