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2ND UPDATE: Also fired is Marc Hirschfeld, EVP for all NBC casting.
UPDATE: Maybe Zucker Will Just Do Away With Pesky NBC Programming Altogether…
The names I’m hearing: Katie O’Connell is EVP of NBC net drama development. Erin Gough is EVP head of comedy development at the studio. Elisa Roth is EVP head of drama development at the studio. Ted Frank was in current programming. And Libby Hansen was the No. 2 to axed NBC reality czar Craig Plestis. And Lauren Stein, who was the No. 2 in drama development at the studio under Elisa Roth. Awful, especially after Friday’ bloodbath.
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NBC aired several episodes of the “re-imagined” Battlestar Galactica during network primetime.
The ratings stank.
Heck, the ratings for that show aren’t even that good on the Sci-Fi Channel after the dismal Season 3 with some of the most awful writing I’ve ever seen.
Bonnie Hammer, Ron Moore, and David Eick should be fired for destroying the future earnings’ potential of an established property.
The overpaid mis-managers@NBC should be made to work in the casting department for a week. First you get the most mediocre scripts in the world, then you have to turn them into gold. With notes from those managers on who to cast, which never make sense. You spend much of your time writing lists and seeing shows to gather up new talent. And nobody listens till a year later when it becomes the big cheese’s idea and the talent is long unavailable. You will miss Marc a great deal-your loss, his freedom, can’t wait to see what he does next.
WTH
Libby deserves the can