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’30 Rock’s Katrina Bowden Moonlights As Murderous 3D Nurse

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 7:23am PDTTags: 30 Rock, Chris Klein, Lionsgate, Paz de la Huerta, Tina Fey
Mike Fleming

Katrina Bowden, who plays Tina Fey’s young assistant on 30 Rock, has just closed a deal to star with Boardwalk Empire’s Paz de la Huerta in Nurse 3D for Lionsgate. Both of them will play nurses who lure unfaithful men into their fatal web in the Douglas Aarniokoski-directed thriller. Bowden just finished Piranha 3DD for Dimension, and played a supporting role in American Reunion, as the love interest to Chris Klein’s American Pie character. All this she did on her 30 Rock hiatus. Bowden is repped by ICM and Management 360.

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EMMYS: Louis C.K. & Lonely Island Duo Top List Of Multiple Nominees, More Notes

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 2:50pm PDTTags: 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, 30 Rock, Akiva Schaffer, AMC, Becoming Chaz, Comedy Central, Conan O'Brien, D.B. Weiss, David Benioff, Emmy Nominations, FX, Greg Daniels, Idris Elba, Jason Katims, Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Louis C.K., Maggie Smith, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Matt Weiner, Melissa Leo, Neil Jordan, Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers, Steve Levitan, The Kennedys, Tina Fey, TNT, USA Network, Zach Galifianakis
Nellie Andreeva

His eponymous FX comedy may have been snubbed in the best comedy series category, but comedian Louis C.K. still managed to become the most nominated person at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards with four noms, sharing the honors with The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. Louis C.K. was nominated in the lead comedy actor category for his role on FX’s Louie, in the writing for comedy series category for penning the Poker/Divorce episode of the show, as well as in two Variety, Music or Comedy special categories for his Epix comedy special Louis C.K.: Hilarious — for writing and for editing. Three of Schaffer and Taccone’s four nominations were in the Original Music and Lyrics category, in which The Lonely Island’s Schaffer, Taccone and Andy Samberg have a regular presence, often in tandem with Justin Timberlake, having won an Emmy together for Dick In a Box. This year, Saturday Night Live is completely dominating the category with four of the six nominations: three for Schaffer, Taccone and Samberg’s digital music videos I Just Have Sex, Jack Sparrow and their latest collaboration with Timberlake, 3-Way, and one for the song from host Timberlake’s opening monologue. Schaffer and Taccone’s fourth Emmy nomination is in the writing for VMC series category for their staff-writing duties on SNL. Read More »

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Karen Croner To Script ‘Hello Ghost’ Remake For Chris Columbus To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 30, 2011 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: 1492 Pictures, Chris Columbus, CJ Entertainment, Denise DiNovi, Hello Ghost, Jennifer Lopez, Meryl Streep, Paul Weitz, Tina Fey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Karen Croner has been set to script Hello Ghost, the film inspired by the Korean comedy about a man whose failed suicide attempt allows him to see ghosts who haunt him until he grants each of them one wish. Chris Columbus will direct a film that will be financed … Read More »

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NBC’s Bob Greenblatt & ’30 Rock’s Tina Fey React To Tracy Morgan’s Homophobic Rant

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 10, 2011 @ 5:08pm PDTTags: 30 Rock, Bob Greenblatt, homophobic rant, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Tracy Morgan Stand-Up
Nellie Andreeva

Tracy Morgan Comes Under Fire For Anti-Gay Rant
NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt, the first openly gay topper of a broadcast network, and 30 Rock creator/executive producer/star Tina Fey just issued statements in response to homophobic remarks by 30 Rock co-star Tracy Morgan at his stand-up show in Nashville last Saturday. The rant, in which Morgan said, among other things that “if his son told him that was gay he … would pull out a knife and stab that little n***** to death,” has created a media firestorm, with gay-rights groups demanding an apology. Morgan issued one earlier today. Greenblatt’s statement indicates that reps for the network have spoken with the actor and “we made it clear to him that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated”, so Morgan will continue on 30 Rock:

Bob Greenblatt, Chairman NBC Entertainment:

I speak for NBC and myself personally when I say we do not condone hate or violence of any kind and I am pleased to see Tracy Morgan apologizing for recent homophobic remarks in his standup appearance. We will always recognize an artist’s freedom to express him or herself, but not when reckless things are said no matter what the context.  Unfortunately, Tracy’s comments reflect negatively on both 30 Rock and NBC — two very all-inclusive and diverse organizations -– and we have made it clear to him that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.

Tina Fey, Executive Producer, 30 Rock

I’m glad to hear that Tracy apologized for his comments. Stand-up comics may have the right to “work out” their material in its ugliest and rawest form in front of an audience, but the violent imagery of Tracy’s rant was disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue for the GLBT Community.

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Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin Again On ‘SNL’ Which In Turn Had Bin Laden Everywhere

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday May 8, 2011 @ 12:17am PDTTags: Andy Samberg, Michael Bolton, Osama Bin Laden, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey
Nellie Andreeva

Tina Fey returned as host of Saturday Night Live tonight and brought back her trademark impersonation of Sarah Palin in a Republican 2012 Undeclared Candidates Debate skit. (Fox News, where Palin works as a contributor, carried the first GOP presidential candidates debate this past week.) “It’s just so great to be back on Fox News, a network that both pays me and shows me the questions ahead of time,” Fey’s Palin said. “I just hope tonight that the lamestream media won’t twist my words by repeating them verbatim.” And another zinger: “I want to acknowledge that this week we finally vanquished one of the world’s great villains –  and I for one am thrilled to say good riddance to Katie Couric.” Is it just me, or does Fey, former SNL head writer, always elevate the writing on the show when she hosts? Also returning for the skit was alum Darrell Hammond, dusting off his spot-on Donald Trump impersonation:

As for Osama bin Laden, he was everywhere, including an ”Under the Sea” tableau interrupted when bin Laden’s body is dropped into the sea. Fred Armisen read a last will as bin Laden. But Seth Meyers got off the most memorable line of the night during Weekend Update: ”Barack Obama will go down in history as the first black person ever to have to prove that he killed someone”:

Meanwhile, the mash-up of Andy Samberg’s rap group with Michael Bolton in Pirates of the Caribbean and other movies rocked:

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Tina Fey And Amy Poehler In ‘Jersey Shore’ Spoof On Fallon (With Steve Burke Cameo)

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 6, 2011 @ 9:44am PDTTags: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey
Nellie Andreeva

It was a big Saturday Night Live reunion on Jimmy Fallon’s Jersey Shore spoof video last night, with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler joining Fallon and fellow former SNL cohort Rachel Dratch. Fey and Poehler guest starred on the latest edition of Jersey Floor, the popular video series on Late … Read More »

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NBC Confirms Tina Fey & Justin Timberlake As ‘SNL’ Hosts For May

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 25, 2011 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Ed Helms, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey
Nellie Andreeva

NBC today confirmed Saturday Night Live‘s guest lineup for May. Former SNL head writer/Weekend Update co-anchor Tina Fey, creator and star of NBC’s comedy 30 Rock, will return for her third stint as host on May 7 with musical guest … Read More »

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’30 Rock’ Chatter: No Plans To End Show Next Season As Star Alec Baldwin Suggests

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 11:30am PDTTags: 30 Rock, 30 Rock Renewal, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, TV
Nellie Andreeva

30 Rock star Alec Baldwin is known for shooting from the hip and dropping bombshells when cornered by reporters at various events. He did it again last night in an interview to Vulture at the National Dance Institute’s annual … Read More »

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Tom Hanks To Guest Star On ’30 Rock’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 25, 2011 @ 9:40pm PDTTags: NBC, Tina Fey
Nellie Andreeva

They already had the queen of TV, Oprah, on the show, now Tina Fey & Co. have booked film royalty Tom Hanks to guest star in an upcoming episode of NBC’s 30 Rock. The Oscar winner confirmed the news … Read More »

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Fox And James Cameron Tap Shawn Levy For 3D ‘Fantastic Voyage’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 7, 2011 @ 7:43am PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Darren Aronofsky, Deadliest Warrior, Fantastic Voyage, James Cameron, Laeta Kalogridis, Louis Leterrier, Movie Deals, Movies, Paul Greengrass, Shane Salerno, Shawn Levy, Spike TV, Steve Carell, Timur Bekmambetov, Tina Fey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has set Shawn Levy to direct Fantastic Voyage, the James Cameron-produced 3D tent pole film. I’m told that Levy has boarded the re-imagining of the 1966 original about a team of scientists shrunk into a ship … Read More »

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Premiere Up In Ratings

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday September 26, 2010 @ 9:53am PDTTags: Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler SNL Host, Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake, Ratings, Saturday Night Live Ratings, Saturday Night Live Season 36, Saturday Night Live Season Premiere, Saturday Night Live Video, Tina Fey, TV, TV Premiere Week, TV Ratings, Video
Nellie Andreeva

The 36th season premiere of Saturday Night Live last night averaged a 5.6 household rating/13 share in the metered markets, up 15% from last year’s season opener. The debut was also higher than the opening episode in September 2007 but couldn’t match the fall 2008 premiere (7.4/18) boosted by the … Read More »

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EMMY SPOILERS: Big Opening Dance Number Features Jon Hamm, Tina Fey, Joel McHale, Chris Colfer & Jane Lynch

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday August 28, 2010 @ 11:06pm PDTTags: 62nd Emmy Awards Jimmy Fallon, 62nd Primetime Emmy Telecast, Chris Colfer, Jane Lynch, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Fallon Emmys, Joel McHale, Jon Hamm, Randy Jackson, Tina Fey


Here’s my 2nd spoiler about Sunday night’s Emmys broadcast and it’s a juicy one: According to my source inside the Nokia Theatre today, the big opening number features host Jimmy Fallon coming out alone with an electric guitar and singing/playing “Born to Run.” Then … Read More »

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Emmy Scorecard: Lead Comedy Actresses

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 17, 2010 @ 10:13am PDTTags: Amy Poehler, Edie Falco, Emmy, Emmy Lead Comedy Actress, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lea Michele, Tina Fey, Toni Collette

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s 2010 Emmy coverage. Here’s his scorecard assessing the Outstanding Lead Drama Series Actor race:

TONI COLLETTE, UNITED STATES OF TARA

Why She Got Nominated: Collette won here last year. If the TV Academy votes separately for each of her personalities, that’s a lot of votes.

Why She Has To Win: … Read More »

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’30 Rock’ To Spoof Comcast Even More

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday August 10, 2010 @ 12:52pm PDTTags: 30 Rock, Comcast, NBCU Comcast, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey



UPDATE: Co-showrunners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock confirmed that 30 Rock will keep poking fun at new NBC Universal owner Comcast next season even more than this past season — though not by name. Here’s the … Read More »

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EMMYS: Q&A With Tina Fey & ’30 Rock’ Co-Showrunner Robert Carlock

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 10, 2010 @ 11:38am PDTTags: 30 Rock, 30 Rock Emmy, Emmy, Tina Fey, Tina Fey 30 Rock

Tina Fey remains a one-woman comedy industry who has done it entirely on her own terms in making the jump from Saturday Night Live to primetime and film. Her 30 Rock enters its 5th season this fall, having earned 3 consecutive Emmys for top comedy and landing Fey 5 Emmys for her producing, writing and acting. (She’s won 7 Emmys in all.) She finds herself nominated for 4 more this year for writing, acting and producing on 30 Rock as well as for a guest actress stint on SNL. Fey spoke with Ray Richmond for Deadline Hollywood along with her 30 Rock co-showrunner Robert Carlock, himself a 3-time Emmy winner, about why it’s never wise to feel too comfortable at the top and how Tina can get sympathy from Oscar voters:

Deadline Hollywood: Isn’t there a point where all of these accolades get a little bit embarrassing already?

Tina Fey: Well, I’m in a constant state of embarrassment as it is. So it’s just about finding a way to translate all of that anxiety into creativity.

Robert Carlock: We all carry a sense of impending failure over here

TF: In fact, even while we’re failing, we feel a sense of greater failure in the offing. In my mind, I hit the bottom of a canyon, the bottom drops out, and then there’s another canyon below it, beckoning.

RC: Then we start to fall up from the earth’s core. No seriously, I mean, we feel a responsibility to set the bar really high for ourselves so we don’t disappoint the people who really love 30 Rock, or the people who work on it.

DH: Do you worry there may be a backlash coming, that after all of the success you’ve had, voters will finally say, “Enough. Time for a little payback”? Read More »

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Comic-Con #3: The ‘Megamind’ Panel

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 6:41pm PDTTags: Comic Books, Comic-Con Convention, DreamWorks, Megamind, Superhero Movie, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

comicon 2010Director Tom McGrath is out first and says this is the first Dreamworks animated superhero movie. He always thinks the villains are the most fun, so he made a whole movie … Read More »

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3 Arts & Untitled Talk Management Merger

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 4:12pm PDTTags: 3 Arts, 30 Rock, Daniel Day-Lewis, Erwin Stoff, Keanu Reeves, Madonna, Managers, Parks and Recreation, Production, Robert Pattinson, The Office, Tina Fey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Management/production companies 3 Arts and Untitled Entertainment are in merger talks. I’m not certain they are going to join forces, but they are exploring it seriously. The potential mix of assets of the two companies is intriguing. 3 Arts — run by Erwin Stoff, Michael Rotenberg, Howard Klein, David … Read More »

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Tina Fey Channels Steve Carell On Emmys

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 8, 2010 @ 10:14am PDTTags: 30 Rock, 62nd Emmy Nominations LA, Emmy, Glee, Kay Cannon, Modern Family, NBC, NBC Comedy, Steve Carell, The Office, Tina Fey, Tina Fey 30 Rock, TV, TV Shows
Nellie Andreeva

Tina Fey was a good sport about her NBC comedy 30 Rock surrendering the spotlight to new kids Glee and Modern Family this year, issuing two funny statements on two of her nominations for 30 Rock (she also shares a writing nom with Kay Cannon):

- on 30 Rock‘s best series nom: ”This … Read More »

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COMEDIES RULE BECAUSE OF BAD NEWS: Tina Fey’s ‘Baby Mama’ Berths No. 1; ‘Harold & Kumar’ #2, ‘Sarah Marshall’ #3

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday April 25, 2008 @ 11:23pm PDTTags: Actors, Amy Poehler, Baby Mama, Box Office, Directors, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Movies, Studios, Tina Fey

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SUNDAY AM: Good news going into the summer movie season –weekend box office was up finally, +15% compared to last year. Funny films swept the Top 3 as the obvious antidote to rising food bills, astronomical gas prices and the constant tide of bad news these days. Universal’s female buddy … Read More »

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