It's a rumor that's been going around Hollywood for years; heck, we even mistakenly thought this was going to happen last year. But now it looks like NBC Universal president Jeff Zucker has finally had enough and is replacing the president of NBC Entertainment, Kevin Reilly.Over the weekend, Nikki Finke of LA Weekly reported on her blog that Reilly will be replaced by two people: producer Ben Silverman, whose company brought The Office and Ugly Betty to the U.S., will be in charge of the entertainment side and Marc Graboff, currently NBCU Television's West Coast chief, will run the business side. Bill Carter of The New York Times is also reporting on the change, but in a less definitive manner.
Reilly is being removed less than three months after signing a new contract, but apparently the network's low ratings and conservative 2007-08 schedule outweighed Reilly's development of Heroes, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock,and The Office in the eyes of Zucker.
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5-29-2007 @ 10:06AM
Santiago Leon said...
good thing he didn't have control over the office
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5-29-2007 @ 1:04PM
TVGenius said...
Shouldn't they have fired Jeff Zucker instead? He's the one who made all the bad decisions to get NBC into the toilet in the first place, and then hired this guy.
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5-29-2007 @ 1:32PM
Guido said...
I wonder if NBC will ever try "stability" . maybe that's a way to get your network back on track.
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5-29-2007 @ 11:04PM
Brent McKee said...
They'll never fire Zucker. Every failure he has results in him getting a promotion. If NBC-Universal were to go broke tomorrow they'd make him chairman of GE.
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