30 Rock News

Comedy Central has acquired the off-network syndication rights to NBC's "30 Rock" and will begin running it in 2011.

Hey, good news! 30 Rock - the show for whose Emmy win Tina Fey once thanked its "dozens of viewers," and which was perpetually on the brink of cancellation until it received an unlikely assist from Sarah Palin last fall - has been sold for syndication.

Liz Lemon has reason to celebrate: NBC's "30 Rock" has nabbed megabucks in off-network sales to Comedy Central and WGN America.

As speculation continues to swirl over Sarah Palin's presidential ambitions, the equally colourful and controversial co-star from her Saturday Night Live appearance has announced he too may seek public office - from the other side of the political spectrum.

Al Franken's a Senator, so why not Alec Baldwin? The leading man on NBC's hit show "30 Rock" has mentioned possibly giving up the screen for public office, now we know who he'd like to run against -- Connecticut's party-switching Joe Lieberman.

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But different questions of style and content come into play here. Does The Office , which tends to follow storylines for longer arcs, make for less-engaging rerun drop-in visits, because you have to know the backstories? By contrast, any edition of 30 Rock is so chock-full of free-standing one-liners and brilliant, out-of-nowhere non sequiturs, ...

Steve Carell and Tina Fey, who are both on hiatus from their respective hit NBC shows, The Office and 30 Rock , are currently filming the movie Date Night in which they play a married couple whose weekly night out goes seriously awry.

The posters in our message boards aren't content just to dish awards bestowed by others -- they insist upon doling out their own.

Pity the TV critic, whose cynicism peaks during Emmy season. They know voters rarely watch all of the programming on which they vote, and those who do vote tend to skew so conservatively that many of the shows critics have championed get overlooked.

This month, we talk to veteran stage actor and director Don Scardino , one of the helmsmen of "30 Rock." Episodes of "30 Rock," NBC's hit sitcom, which was created by and stars Tina Fey, are often enhanced by New York stage actors' guest turns.

I am a ' Hercules!! SNL hits primetime nine days before its traditional late-night debut.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: '30 Rock,' 8 and 9:31 p.m., NBC. The first rerun has some neatly off-center moments.

I am - " Hercules!! This final season of "The Girls Next Door," on sale today, sadly does not follow Hugh Hefner's blonde "girlfriends" as they found their ways off the Hef's property grounds and into the hotel rooms of a Philadelphia Eagles receiver and a Mindfreak.

There are now more high-profile roles for women in primetime comedies than at any time since perhaps the 1970s heyday of "Mary Tyler Moore," "Maude" and "Laverne & Shirley." The Hollywood Reporter gathered six of the funniest examples of the trend: Christina Applegate ; Jane Krakowski ; Julia Louis-Dreyfus ; Mary-Louise Parker ; Amy Poehler and ...

Juicy stuff, even if it's two years old, but what I find most interesting is Baldwin talking about the future.

TROPHY BRIDE: Buoyed by Jack McBrayer, left, and Alec Baldwin, '30 Rock' could be looking at a third consecutive comedy series Emmy this fall.

Actor Alec Baldwin attends the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Bridge Dedication Gala at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on November 19, 2008 in New York City.

Following the public leak of an angry voicemail he left for his then-11-year-old daughter Ireland, Alec Baldwin said he was so devastated, he contemplated taking his own life.

Alec Baldwin said he contemplated suicide after a voicemail in which he called his daughter a "rude little pig" leaked on the Internet.