The “30 Rock” meeting airs this Thursday at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET, but NBC affiliate stations have chosen not to broadcast the special.
The 12 stations owned by NBC, including those in New York and Los Angeles, will air the special on Thursday. On Friday morning, NBC will publish the full special on NBC.com, cable video-on-demand platforms and its new streaming service Peacock. The special will also air on NBCU’s cable networks (US, SyFy, Bravo, Oxygen, E!, And CNBC) on Friday. The meeting will not air on Hulu.
Vulture reported that Gray Television, Hearst, Nexstar, Tegna and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, local NBC affiliates, have told NBC that they plan to pre-empt the remotely filmed time on Thursday, as the station owners think the event driven by Corporations is a promotion too much for NBC’s Peacock broadcast platform, which can alienate viewers from linear television.
“30 Rock: a one-time special” It will include appearances by cast members Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer, reprising their “30 Rock” roles. The event will also double as an upfront special for NBCUniversal properties.
The one-hour special, without commercials, will also feature appearances by talents from NBCUniversal, highlighting new and recurring programming from NBC, Telemundo, USA Network, SYFY, E! and bravo.
“30 Rock” followed NBC executive Liz Lemon, played by Fey, on a pointless television station based in New York City. The upcoming special will anticipate network programming for the upcoming 2020-2021 season as Liz navigates her life during the coronavirus pandemic.
NBC’s “30 Rock” aired from October 2006 to January 2013, winning 16 Emmy Awards. The series also holds the record for most Emmy nominations in one season for any comedy series and received 103 Emmy nominations over seven seasons on NBC.
“We are all happy to have this excuse to work (remotely) together again for NBC,” Fey and Robert Carlock, executive producers of “30 Rock,” said in a joint statement. “To quote Kenneth the Page, there are only two things we love in this world, television and all.”
