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NBC is terrible. We will order full seasons of shows and then not even bother to really ever show them. That's Fox's level.

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Nothing But Crap

How the mighty has fallen. Does Zucker have pictures of Immelt in an uncompromising position? How does this guy not only keep his job, but keep getting promote?

They've got Heroes, FNL and the Thursday comedies. Not much else.

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shame seeing as NBS's Thursday night is pretty much the best two hour block on television from any network

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its cause they always cancel quality shows like the black donnellys

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i don't care what they do so long as they keep scrubs.

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I blame stupid Americans for The Office's low ratings. NBC promotes the show at every turn, it has pop culture buzz, and still it is one of the lowest-rated full-season shows on any network.

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Anthony you are too funny!

Porchland, you can promote The Office all the time on NBC, no one is watching the network to see those commericals.

I think they need to move it to Wednesdays. Thursdays have too many shows and NBC will never win.

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I am not a stupid American, I'm pretty smart and I watch VERY LITTLE on NBC. I will say that, if being stupid means I don't like constant vulgarity, bad language and political agendas, then maybe I am stupid.

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i wasnt kidding when i wrote that, i really enjoyed that show

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At least we don't have to worry of Heroes getting cancelled any time soon. They couldn't afford to lose it.

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Do they have Jerry Seinfeld in a box which they can break the glass in case of emergency.

How much can they pay George Clooney and Julianna Margulies to return to ER for a 3 ep arc.

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Television is a rough business. I personally think NBC has been pushing the envelope creatively the past couple of years, introducing Heroes, The Office, My Name is Earl, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock, Kidnapped, Andy Barker P.I., Raines, Studio 60, and The Black Donnellys. Unfortunately, most of those series, although high-quality, have failed to strike a chord with viewers. Only Heroes has become a major hit. The Office and Earl are getting modest ratings, but nothing to shout about. 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights are struggling despite the critics' love. Kidnapped and Andy Barker are have already entered tv heaven, and Studio 60 and Black Donnellys are about to follow them. I'm hoping NBC will give Raines a chance, but I doubt it.

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Let's hope they pick up the revamped Bionic Woman from the creative geniuses of Battlestar Galactica, that might help them a bit... I know I'll be watching....

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Growing up, we all watched the Brandon Tartikoff-programmed NBC because it was better fare than the other networks. Today, I watch one show on NBC ("Heroes"). I was watching and enjoying "Kidnapped", but NBC cancelled it too early.

Jeff Zucker's reign at NBC should be deemed, from a viewer's perspective, a complete failure. Perhaps he brings them a lot of financial success, which in the end is all the suits at GE care about. But as a viewer, I think he's done an awful job, and has had more than enough time to prove himself. Let's cancel him.

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Here's five ways they could bring the network back:

1) Get a Joss Whedon show. Could be Firefly Redux, or something entirely new. Get the hell out of the way and let him do it right. Promote it like Heroes (online marketing, great timeslot) and whatever Joss does, they'll have a hit.

2) Bring back Surface or move Eureka to NBC. And have some friggin patience. Let them develop and create real storylines. Character development--ever heard of it NBC execs?!?

3) Get a family drama like Party of Five or Gilmore Girls. Make it smart and sentimental. It should be endearing, not a serial drama, but a traditional show where characters and plots don't necessarily have to mash every week and you don't have to watch every single episode in order to know what's going on.

4) Let the writers and producers handle the shows and keep the execs the hell away from everything. All NBC shows have the same signs--even Heroes, which is a compelling show, shows signs of missplaced dialog and adjunct plotslines, which are clearly added by nosy-dimwitted Marketing and QC execs who think they must force shows to meet every market with a lame line or plot twist here and there. Let the shows be their own thing.

5) Give Joss Whedon a show.

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The only real decent show NBC has is Vegas and where is that??? It ended over a month ago - now that's just pathetic!

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I must admit to not watching any show on NBC besides Heroes and Scrubs. I really don't care much for anything else they have to offer.

Heroes because it is just plain good.
Scrubs because it is just plain funny.

I'll sample just about any show on any network to see if I'll like it and what the buzz is about. But that is usually as far as it goes. On commercial tv, I may watch 2 hours(MAYBE 3 every so often) tops a week and an hour and half of that is on NBC. When those shows are in reruns, I'm watching a DVD, something on Dish or doing something else alltogether.

@Anthnoy
As an aside, being African American (more user friendly term: Black American), I made a point NOT to watch the Black Donellys.

From the ads they plastered all over my favorite tv show (Heroes) at every commercial break, I didn't see one black person in it. Didn't quite get the connection between the title and a dysfunctional, ultra violent family of brothers as "Must See TV".

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Aaron--the name "Black Donnellys" was a play on the phrase "black Irish." Look it up on Wikipedia, but basically it was a term used to denote people who were even lower on the totem pole than regular Irish immigrants -- dark-haired Irish immigrants. yes, it's most likely racist in origin, which is why I was surprised when network standards let it through.

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Aaron: The title Black Donnely's had nothing to do with skin color. I believe it was a reference from Irish Literature. Someone will probably correct me though.

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NBC had a nice family drama a few years ago - Providence. One of the first things Zucker did when he took over was to cancel it yet it always won its timeslot on a Friday night no less. Incidently, that was the start of NBC's decline Nothing else worked on Friday night after that and they used to win the entire night.

Heroes is the only show I watch on NBC anymore after years of it being the dominate network that I watched. CBS is now my dominate network.

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