But jokingly. In April, the network reunited the cast of Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Morgan will revive their roles for an NBC upfront special that Jack Donaghy would love.From the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter.Photo by Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images. Good God, Lemon, It’s the 4 Women Accuse Comedian Bryan Callen of Sexual Assault and MisconductBrad Garrett Says Mistreatment by Ellen DeGeneres Is ‘Common Knowledge’Ellen DeGeneres Responds to Toxic Workplace AccusationsGarth Brooks Won’t Compete for CMA Entertainer of the Year Because of a Tweet4 Women Accuse Comedian Bryan Callen of Sexual Assault and MisconductBrad Garrett Says Mistreatment by Ellen DeGeneres Is ‘Common Knowledge’Ellen DeGeneres Responds to Toxic Workplace AccusationsGarth Brooks Won’t Compete for CMA Entertainer of the Year Because of a Tweet Beyond that, the special showed that, however gut-busting “30 Rock” remains in reruns, its arch, lighten-up-Francis comedy is a product of a very specific era that does not time-travel well.The special seemed to allude to this when Jenna Maroney (Krakowski, who was in some of the blackface instances) halfheartedly apologized to the “This Is Us” star Mandy Moore after being “canceled” for a scatological offense, saying, “The late 2010s was a very different time.”But global health crisis or no, it’s hard to imagine how the razor-edged cynicism of “30 Rock” — which spoofed media synergy and amorality as ridiculous but inept — would fit into a moment when the actual president is a crossover character from Of course, Fey and her crew are smart enough to know exactly this and to work it into the special.
“To quote Kenneth the Page, there are only two things we love in this world, television and everyone.” The British sorta-game-show sensation hasn’t made much of a footprint in the U.S., but that stands to change when it premieres on the CW this weekend. Tokyo Olympics — it lent the whole production a surreal undertone of forced optimism.I watched the special twice on Thursday night, once live, once with my family, who wisely fast-forwarded through the ads. ‘30 Rock’ Reunion Review: A Few Laughs, a Lot of Blergh The TV-biz satire spent a joking-not-joking night selling NBCUniversal TV, winking so hard that it injured itself. NBC's '30 Rock' reunion special is a forgettable, mostly unfunny infomercial. But a boycott of a prime-time special across multiple major station groups is not common at all, and is possibly a symptom of station groups’ unhappiness with NBCU’s Peacock plans.Earlier this year, station owners pushed back at a decision to
It is one of the iron laws of reality in 2020, and it was awkwardly proved by the weird, recursively ironic reunion “30 Rock: A One-Time Special” Thursday night, in which a sitcom that spent years spoofing corporate TV’s desperate salesmanship took part in the big shill seriously. 30 Rock: A One-Time Special, Thursday's pandemic-set reunion episode, sure felt like a zombie version of the show made to fill time between ads for NBCUniversal content.