Oh, To Have Been A Fly On The Wall…

COMMENTS (14)

• or one of the escargot that was ordered.

  Comment by Crowsky — Thursday December 3, 2009 @ 4:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• I was seated with my wife at a marginal table not far from the long, long table and though I never heard anything specific there was a toast by someone and it said very loud “Zuck You” and everyone clinked glass and laughed with a roar.

  Comment by alex comda — Thursday December 3, 2009 @ 6:11pm PST  Reply to this post

• Brandon Tartikoff best described Warren Littlefield as a Cockroach who would survive a Nuclear
  Disaster…

  Comment by stan — Thursday December 3, 2009 @ 7:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• What a get-together. The man who ran NBC into the ground, talking smack about the current guy who ran NBC further into the ground.

  Comment by Ed — Thursday December 3, 2009 @ 7:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• Warren Littlefield has aleays been a tool. Take about a no talent

  Comment by bruce sing — Thursday December 3, 2009 @ 9:45pm PST  Reply to this post

• Tanas doesnt serve escargot. Try the Karl Malden.

  Comment by dodo — Thursday December 3, 2009 @ 9:50pm PST  Reply to this post

• My favorite Warren Littlefield quote of all time: “You fuck the talent, not marry it.” A brilliant and very kind man to everyone on set on the pilot I worked with him on earlier this decade.

  Comment by cheesebeef — Friday December 4, 2009 @ 12:01am PST  Reply to this post

• What did Vivendi call Comcast after the merger agreement for NBCU was finalized?

  ZUCKERS!!!

  Comment by gilles — Friday December 4, 2009 @ 1:41am PST  Reply to this post

• No axe to grind here, but curious: How do former execs like Warren Littlefield and (especially) Lin Bolen, whose careers are no more, get by financially? They were both relatively young when their executive careers went south, and in contrast to guys like Grant Tinker & Fred Silverman, they never really hit the executive producing jackpot.

  So just how do they put caviar on the table?

  Comment by Wondering... — Friday December 4, 2009 @ 2:02am PST  Reply to this post

• Warren Littlefield and his team developed the shows that once made NBC great. From Seinfeld to Friends to ER. He is the real thing. And a good guy.

  Comment by TV Writer — Friday December 4, 2009 @ 12:21pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I agree with TV Writer. I was at NBC during the glory years. Oh how wonderful those were. Warren is a good guy, for a TV guy–all things being relative. I remember a company-wide meeting when Bob Wright came out and said that he stood behind Warren and then proceeded to actually stand behind him.

    Can’t tell you how much it hurts my soul (and, yes, I do have one) to see that miserable toad who has wrung $17b of value out of NBC keep getting promoted and watch him keep his job even after all he’s done to destroy what was once one of the strongest brands in all entertainment.

    As someone once famously said, I hate the little midget.

    Comment by BleedsInColor — Friday December 4, 2009 @ 4:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• Zuck U! LMOA – that’s what happens to good underlings who get fired. ZUCK U!!!

  Comment by F. — Friday December 4, 2009 @ 12:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• Where are the ratings at NBC? What is that zucking sound?
  Hardeharhar!

  Comment by Earl Santos — Friday December 4, 2009 @ 6:19pm PST  Reply to this post

• Warren Littlefield a “tool?” NBC was number one– almost with double the ratings of anyone else– the entire time he ran primetime. Compare that to the tragic Zucker
  aftermath…. a once dominant, now utterly broken company, embarrassed and mocked by the public, run into FIFTH place ( yes, Univision beats it every night ) now sold to a bunch of greedy cable nitwits, who couldn’t program an alarm clock. NBC is doomed.

  Comment by zangadoo — Saturday December 5, 2009 @ 1:28pm PST  Reply to this post