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Ted Harbert Becomes Paul Telegdy’s New NY Late-Night Gofer: How Embarrassing!

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 7:40pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Chelsea Handler, NBC Universal, Paul Telegdy, Ted Harbert

NBCU considered this “such a minor move” that it didn’t even think it was worth announcing. Wow, what a diss of NBC Broadcasting Chairman Ted Harbert, who has been in the Witness Protection Program ever since Comcast bought NBCUniversal. And when the pint-sized putz isn’t hiding from angry O&Os and affiliates and advertisers fed up with yet another lousy network primetime season, he’s screaming at reporters who didn’t share his belief that Animal Practice would be a homerun this season. (Media 1, Ted 0.) In actuality the only impetus for handing Harbert an infinitesimal new late night role is the multimillion-dollar remodeling of the 30 Rock studio that will house The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon when it moves to New York. Harbert is NYC-based and in charge of NBC’s buildings, so he was tapped. (Was Kenneth Parcell too busy?) Let me emphasize there is no change in the late-night reporting structure, still overseen by Paul Telegdy, president of alternative programming and late night and who reports to NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt. (Meanwhile, Greenblatt and Harbert hate each other.) With Telegdy focused on NBC’s top-rated series The Voice, which tapes in LA, he has little time for frequent bicoastal trips. So the underemployed Harbert is Telegdy’s new gofer on 3 NYC shows now: The Tonight Show, Late Show and Saturday Night Live. Harbert in the late night realm is best known for when he was E! Entertainment chief and dating Chelsea Handler the same year her first E! series The Chelsea Handler Show premiered. They then moved in together while he was serving as CEO of Comcast Entertainment Group overseeing E! and other cable channels — and inflicting Chelsea Lately on the schedule beginning in 2007. Hollywood waited impatiently for Comcast to put a stop to this inappropriate 4-year relationship. But it only ended when Chelsea dumped her boss in 2010. That said, I like Jimmy Fallon so my advice to him is: Trust me, you can do better than Ted.

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NBC Brass Happy With Ricky Gervais’ Performance, Would “Welcome Him Back”

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 16, 2012 @ 1:33am PSTTags: Golden Globes, NBC, Paul Telegdy, Ricky Gervais
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Ricky Gervais: “I’m Really Done This Time” Hosting The Golden Globes; Nikki Finke: Why Ricky Gervais Stunk

If it was up to NBC alone, the network would probably … Read More »

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NBC Reups With Specials Boss Doug Vaughan, Adds Late-Night To His Duties

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 1:08pm PDTTags: Last Call with Carson Daly, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, NBC, NBC Late Night, Paul Telegdy, Saturday Night Live

NBC has renewed its contract with SVP Special Programs and Alternative Doug Vaughan, with his expanded responsibilities including and oversight of most of the network’s late-night programs. Now SVP Special Programs and Late Night, he will shepherd Saturday … Read More »

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NBC To Launch New Reality Show ‘Who’s Still Standing?’ In December As A Strip

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: Fear Factor, NBC, Paul Telegdy, TV Schedule, Who's Still Standing
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Once again NBC will be launching a reality series as a strip during the holiday season in December. Following in the footsteps of Deal Or No Deal, Clash Of The Choirs and The Sing-Off, new trivia competition show Who’s Still … Read More »

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NBC’s Paul Telegdy Upped To President Of Reality+Late Night: Rick Ludwin Steps Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 3:47pm PDTTags: America's Got Talent, Bob Greenblatt, Golden Globes, NBC, Paul Telegdy, The Sing-Off, The Voice
Nellie Andreeva

With The Voice turning the lights on for fourth-place NBC this past season and considered a cornerstone in the network’s quest for a ratings turnaround, the man who developed it at NBC, Paul Telegdy, is getting a promotion: a president … Read More »

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