A new 30 Rock thread because I can't find the old one

someone really should put Palin on a word ration, tighten that shit right up.

oxygen ration morelike

lol

Yeah but once you introduce word rationing, death panels can't be far behind, socialism.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/alec_baldwin_30_rock_ending.html

"I will tell you one thing," he said. "And that is our show next year is our last year of the show." Though Baldwin has made no secret of the fact that he plans to leave 30 Rock in 2012, this was the first time we've heard that the show itself would close up shop, too. But Baldwin says it's a done deal that Fey will be leaving. "Our contracts are expired [in 2012], and Tina is gonna have a big career directing films and writing. She's going to be the next Elaine May. She'll be great." Reps for Fey and the show declined to comment.

If true, this doesn't make me sad. I think six seasons of 30 Rock sounds about right.

would be impossible to continue without baldwin anyway

yeah, i kinda hope it ends, but would like to see fey do another tv show maybe.

'the should hire steve carell' - an entertainment news blogger

tbh I would watch a relationship comedy starring Tina Fey and Matt Damon

'the should hire steve carell' - an entertainment news blogger

I suggested (to no one in particular, but I think my dog was in the room when I said it out loud) that Baldwin/Donaghy should go to the Office: fish-out-of-water, down-on-his-luck big-city CEO in a small town, hilarity ensuing, etc. And Carrell could take over for Donaghy! Small-town middle-manager in over his head, etc. etc.

My Season 4 DVD just arrived so it's helping me through these two weeks of no new episodes. I'm not surprised they're gonna wrap it up, I'm amazed the show has remained so high quality for this long.
BTW I didn't notice it at the time but in Season 4, Alec Baldwin does this weird pouty Zoolander lip thing at the end of scenes like ALL THE TIME! And now I've noticed it I can't not-see it.

oh yeah, that's called "his face"

lol
http://johngushue.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451f25369e20148c82557cd970c-pi

This show needs to end. Also, Baldwin's comments reek of contractual negotiations – threaten the network with impending doom, the network stumps up more money. He's helping his mates.

That's nonsense.

i thought you'd want it to carry on now that tracy morgan is away? xp

Baldwin's had one foot out the door for the show's entire run, talking about leaving when the daughter voicemail happened and at other points -- i think he enjoys 30 Rock and knows he's got a good thing but probably justifiably doesn't want to hang on forever like a lot of TV stars. and i can see why Fey would want to move onto other projects, 6 seasons is a good run, not too short and not too long.

no, Baldwin has talked about how he's absolutely definitely leaving three times before. he really means it every time, but obviously has enough fun that he gets talked back - this time might take, though. (it's not enough of a success to rort the network out of more money, anyway.)

xpost yep

Baldwin is clearly leaving, but for him to just appear out of nowhere and say 'omz the head creative has a future in hollywood!!' smacks of negotiation tactics. This stuff happens all the time.

yes, totally

this is constantly happening

tbh i hope he is right about Fey itching to write/direct movies. clearly she's going to be starring in movies either way and it seems like when she has the creative reins you get Mean Girls and when she doesn't you get Baby Mama/Date Night.

Aw, I liked Baby Mama.

Don't slander Baby Mama like that. I loled at least three times as much at that as I did the awful Date Night.

Baby Mama was aight, but it is clearly not on Mean Girls/30 Rock level

Mean Girls is still one of my favorite things she's done

Date Night was like Tina Fey's Scenes from a Mall.

so tina is apparently 5 mo. pregnant. which i guess might be about right timing-wise if you're trying to schedule your pregnancy to interfere with your tv show job as little as possible.

Baby Mama was awful and mirthless. I liked Date Night as an OK throwback to lost-in-scary-old-New-York 80s action-comedies.

I didn't appreciate many of Baby Mama's charms until I saw it the second (and third) time.

I just tried buying this woman's new ebook. Can't. Apparently I am of an inferior race.

Race or sex?

I'm guessing race. Australian :)

(ie impossible to get books etc at same time as US, etc)

Just downloaded the book and read the first 30 pages or so last night. It's a pretty fun, addictive read.

I was thinking it should be a good read, she's a pretty snappy writer and she has had an interesting life. The story of how she got that scar is O_O

Never heard that story!

I'm surprised she wrote about it; I don't think she's ever talked about it in public.

well I don't know if she talks about it in the book, but I read an interview a few years back where she talked about it.

I guess she was playing out in her front yard when she was 5, and this dude just came by and randomly slashed her face with a knife, and ran away. She thought he had drawn on her face, she didn't even know it had happened at first.

She doesn't talk about it hardly at all though, so yeah she may not even bring it up in the book

she goes into about that much detail in the book, talks more about how people treated her because of it.

In a way it's probably good she has kept a lid on it...I mean, it would be so easy to have THAT be your story from the time you're a kid.

Yeah, she does talk about it in the book. She doesn't really go into detail about the actual event, but provides funny theory involving how the scar transformed her personality by making adults give her extra attention/pity/inflated sense of self.

xp

I always thought the scar was kind of hot. I have had a major girl crush on her for like, ever

Baldwin:

Gosh.

I want to take the opportunity to state that although my days on network TV may be numbered, I hope 30 Rock goes on forever. Or at least as long as everyone involved desires.

Next year hopefully won't be the last. Kenneth can run the network. Jenna will get her own talk show. Tracy will become Mayor of New York. Then resign to go raise exotic reptiles. And Lemon will go do.... just about anything she sets her mind to.

Here's to five more seasons.

thought there would be an episode for me on hulu just now but no the show took yet another break. stupid vagaries of network television programming. Sometimes I wish I were watching television at the end of time and extensive poll aggregation had produced a list of things that I should watch in order to perfectly fill my projected lifespan with top-quality entertainment.

Oof I think I need to go to bed.

yeah it's pretty horrible the way they only have a great new episode of this awesome hilarious show on thursday night about 50% of the time instead of 100% of the time i mean what the hell

I KNOW, RIGHT?

I would actually love it if TV shows updated sporadically in the fashion of infrequently-used LJs/blogger blogs

"hi guys, forgot I had this thing! Things have been going well; here's another episode of 30 Rock than I made!

xoxo, Tina"