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Liz Lemon is called upstairs to meet the new network exec, Jack Donaghy, who instructs her to hire movie star Tracy Jordan to draw a young male audience to 'The Girlie Show'.
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"Tina Fey, a woman who knows her way around comedy, was the brainchild of this series which tells the story of a 'Saturday Night Live' type comedy / variety series, 'The Girlie Show', forced to undergo some changes by an interfering network executive Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin, in typically fine form). Jacks' big idea is bringing in flaky movie star Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan, another SNL alumnus) to appeal to the "males from 18 to 49" demographic. Personally, I thought this debut episode was pretty good, although I can believe that the series would only get ..."
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From the first days of the show, executives at GE (which owned NBC at the time) were angry at the many jokes Tina Fey and her writers would make about various corporate actions, and they tried to intercede to either force her to stop doing that or to cancel the show. However, after then-NBC Chairman Jeffrey Zucker was informed of these plans, he let them know two things: the show was to be left alone because the humor "was just jokes" and that he would be angry if he had to deal with the matter again. From that point on, the network ownership left Fey alone to make the show as she wanted to.
📖 Synopsis
Liz Lemon is called upstairs to meet the new network exec, Jack Donaghy, who instructs her to hire movie star Tracy Jordan to draw a young male audience to 'The Girlie Show'.