In a surprise move, Comcast announced that it's going to buy all of General Electric's stake in NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion. While this is no doubt big news in the business world, it also reveals just how on-point 30 Rock was with Kabletown all those yars.
Because 30 Rock may have been just about the most clip-friendly sitcom of our time — it was never a show for political correctness, propriety, or even sanity, and it was almost always hilarious all the way.
Her iconic character has always been more or less a fictionalized version of Fey herself, but the two aren't quite equal. To say farewell to 30 Rock, let's compare their highlights — with some very memorable video.
Tonight NBC will air the series finale of its greatest show since Seinfeld, the fast flying, borderline manic, screwball masterpiece 30 Rock. Richard Lawson explains why Tina Fey's patois of obscure references and absurdist flights of fancy were so very much worth watching.
What's one great thing about 30 Rock ending? Well, we finally figured out that Princeton has a sense of humor.
Spoiler alert: The Majority Leader's cameo involves "economic war criminals."
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Sure, Joe Biden may have gotten his Parks and Recreation cameo, but Nancy Pelosi is topping that by appearing in this month's series finale of 30 Rock.
Today in show business news: FX renews its successful horror anthology for another season, a big wedding is planned on 30 Rock, and a surprising Friday Night Lights alum wins MVP.
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Today in showbiz: Zac Efron is about to get romantic, 30 Rock gets two exciting guest stars, and Julia Ormond takes a dubious job.
In 2008, the new ubiquitous party boy in New York was not some 20-year-old hipster, but Bill Murray, who Page Six Magazine reported had begun showing up unannounced at parties in Williamsburg just to hang out. Four years later, the title of "late-blooming fun-time It guy" has been seized by former President Bill Clinton.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
As NBC gets ready to debut its new lineup at its upfront presentation next week, word is trickling in that an order for the final season of 30 Rock is imminent, but that it will likely be a truncated season of only thirteen or fourteen episodes instead of the standard twenty or so.
Alec Baldwin has been angrily tweeting Tuesday night and Wednesday morning about the journalists staked out in front of his apartment (ironically to ask him about his stalker), but it was a perceived slight from a fellow NBC family member that drove him to hint he'd be leaving the network.
For as long as men and women have been being friends, people have been asking, can men and women be friends?
30 Rock debuts low, HBO announces important dates, and Jessica Chastain does one for the kids.
Wasn't there something strangely... pretty about the end of last night's episode?
Alec Baldwin is staying at NBC, so is Mariska Hargitay, and another Disney ride becomes a Disney movie.
Higher prices will save the industry, Demi Moore is a feminist icon, and Salma Hayek is a knight.
Alec Baldwin called his Tuesday night visit to Zuccotti Park "too brief," but it looks like the trip was a very long two hours.
Plus: The Tommy Lee Jones contract snafu that keeps on costing Paramount
Says audience "hooted and hollered" during the performance
The show is at its best when it just spontaneously stops making sense
It may be time to stop listening to Alec Baldwin
Star off-handedly reveals plans to wrap up show after the 2012-2013 season
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