This article is about the TV series. For the skyscraper located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, see GE Building. 30 Rock is an American television comedy series about the goings on behind the camera of the fictional live sketch comedy series, TGS with Tracy Jordan.[1] The show was created by Tina Fey, and is filmed primarily at Silvercup Studios in New York City, New York.[2] Some scenes are filmed on location at Rockefeller Center and scene transition shots are shown of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the series' name sake. The pilot episode first aired on October 11, 2006.[3] As of April 2008 one full season has aired and a second season, which premiered on October 4, 2007,[4] is mid-way through its broadcasting season. A third season is expected to premiere during Fall 2008.[5][6] The show is produced by Broadway Video and Little Stranger, inc in association with NBC Universal and airs on the NBC network in the United States.[7] The current executive producers are Fey, Lorne Michaels, Marci Klein, David Miner and Robert Carlock.[7] GE Building at Rockefeller Center The GE Building at night Close-up against the night sky At night, from the ground View from Top of the Rock at dusk The GE Building is a slim gothic skyscraper and the focal point at the Rockefeller Center. ...
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David Miner is an Emmy Award-nominated American film and television producer who is best known for his work as an executive producer on NBCs 30 Rock. ...
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Marci Klein is an Emmy Award-winning American television producer who is best known for her work on 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live. ...
David Miner is an Emmy Award-nominated American film and television producer who is best known for his work as an executive producer on NBCs 30 Rock. ...
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The series has an ensemble cast which currently consists of ten regular cast members, including Fey.[7] The series main cast consists of Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer. The show also has a cast of eight secondary characters. Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe Award-winning, American actor. ...
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30 Rock has been a critical success, winning several major awards including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series,[8] the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series,[9] the Producers Guild of America Award for Producer of the Year in Episodic Comedy Series[10] and a Peabody Award[11] as well as achieving the top ranking on a myriad of critics' year-end best of 2006 and 2007 lists.[7] Despite these accolades, the series averaged a low 5.8 million viewers in its first season, in the United States, according to the Nielsen Ratings system, and ranked just 102 out of 142 television series.[12] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Production
Conception In 2002, Fey, who was at the time was the head writer as well as a performer on Saturday Night Live, pitched the show that would become 30 Rock to NBC as a sitcom about cable news. NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly felt that "Fey was using the news setting as a fig leaf for her own experience and [he] encouraged her to write what she knew."[13] The show was subsequently reworked to revolve around an Saturday Night Live (SNL) style show. In May 2003, Fey signed a deal with NBC to remain in her SNL head writer position till at least the 2004 – 2005 television season, and to develop a primetime project to be produced by Broadway Video and NBC Universal.[14] During the 2004-2005 pilot season, a pilot was announced named Untitled Tina Fey Project. The pilot, which would later become 30 Rock, was originally about the head writer of a variety show who has to manage her relationships with the show's volatile star and executive producer. This storyline would later transform to revolve around the head writer of a variety show dealing with both the stars as well as the variety shows new network executive.[15] 30 Rock was officially given the greenlight to air and given a 13-episode order on May 15, 2006.[16] The year 2002 in television involved some significant events. ...
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The show underwent further changes during the months leading up to and following its debut. A May 2006 press release mentioned that sketches from The Girlie Show would be made available in their entirety on NBC's broadband website, DotComedy.com. The idea was to air the fictitious TGS with Tracy Jordan online.[17] This aspect of the series was abandoned prior to its debut.
Filming locations 30 Rock is filmed in New York City. Although establishing shots of 30 Rock are often repeated, outdoor scenes are filmed on location at Rockefeller Center or in other parts of New York City. Most of the indoor scenes are filmed at Silvercup Studios in Queens.[2] In the episodes "Cleveland" and "Hiatus", Battery Park City, Manhattan and Douglaston, Queens doubled for Cleveland, Ohio[18] and the fictional Needmore, Pennsylvania, respectively. Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 757 KB)Photographed by user:Geographer with time stamp removal by user:Jleon. ...
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Music The series features a jazzy score that heightens comical moments. The music is composed by Fey's husband Jeff Richmond, who is also a producer for 30 Rock. Six short original songs have been featured in episodes, four of which were performed by Jane Krakowski, another performed by Tina Fey and Jason Sudeikis and another performed by Tracy Morgan. The show has also covered three existing songs, including the song "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight and the Pips. The song had its lyrics altered to accommodate the character Kenneth being "misinformed about the time [of the 23:45 train]." One song heard throughout the episode "The Source Awards" is performed by the artist The Gray Kid. It is the song "Oh My." The song was mixed with a piano arrangement composed by Jeff Richmond. For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ...
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Internet On April 2, 2008 NBC announced, 30 Rock 360, an online extension of the 30 Rock series. The extension will feature Jack Donaghy's Online Business Courses (or Jack U). Users will also be able to read Jack's blogs as well as upload their own business advice in video form. Users will also be able to submit skits for TGS with Tracy Jordan as well as act out skits from TGS. The feature will also re-open Ask Tina, an interactive question and answer platform in which users can ask series creator Tina Fey questions. Fey will answer the questions in video form.[19] Ask Tina was a fixture on NBC.com's 30 Rock section throughout the first season.[20] is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Complete episodes of 30 Rock are available online, to US residents only, along with downloads through the "NBC Direct" service.[21] Episodes were also available on iTunes, although this arrangement ceased in December 2007 as NBC and Apple Inc. were unable to come to a renewal deal.[22] Season 1 and 2 are currently available for streaming on Netflix, which requires a paid subscription.[23] Season 1 and 2 are also available on Amazon Unbox for $1.99.[24][25] This article is about the iTunes application. ...
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Cast and characters  From left: Tracy (Morgan), Jack (Baldwin), Liz (Fey), Jenna (Krakowski) and Kenneth (McBrayer)  Frank (Friedlander), Pete (Adsit), "Toofer" (Powell) and Jenna (Krakowski) look as Liz (Fey) is wearing a wedding dress. - See also: List of recurring characters on 30 Rock
The plot of 30 Rock revolves around the cast and crew of the fictional sketch comedy series TGS with Tracy Jordan, which is filmed in Studio 6H inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza.[26] The cast of the series is an ensemble cast,[7] which means that each character is seen with roughly the same amount of importance in each episode. Sketch Show redirects here. ...
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The initial season had seven roles receiving star billing. Tina Fey portrayed the protagonist, the head writer of TGS with Tracy Jordan, Liz Lemon. Tracy Morgan played the loose cannon star of TGS Tracy Jordan. Jane Krakowski acted as the limelight seeking Jenna Maroney. Jack McBrayer portrayed the young, obedient Southern-born NBC page, Kenneth Parcell. Scott Adsit played the "sane," quick witted producer of TGS, Pete Hornberger. Judah Friedlander acted as the trucker hat wearing childish, sarcastic writer Frank Rossitano. Alec Baldwin portrayed the decisive, controlling, suave network executive Jack Donaghy, who constantly interferes with the goings on at TGS.[7] Billing is a film term denoting the amount and order in which film credits information is presented in advertising and on the film itself. ...
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Beginning with season two, three characters, who were credited as guest stars during season one, received star billing in addition to the existing cast.[7] Katrina Bowden portrayed Liz's attractive, laid back assistant Cerie Xerox.[27] Keith Powell played the intelligent, Harvard University alumni James "Toofer" Spurlock. Lonny Ross acted as the immature TGS cast member Josh Girard. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...
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Numerous supporting characters have been given recurring appearances in the series. They include Maulik Pancholy as Jack's loyal assistant Jonathan. Grizz Chapman and Kevin Brown make appearances as members of Tracy's entourage Grizz and Dot Com, respectively. John Lutz makes appearances as the food loving TGS writer J.D Lutz. Maulik Pancholy (born 18 January 1974) is an American actor of Indian heritage. ...
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Casting Fey had already cast herself as the lead character, Liz Lemon. The first actor to be cast was Tracy Morgan who plays Tracy Jordan.[28] Next to be cast were Jack McBrayer who plays Kenneth Parcell.[29] Also to be cast was Rachel Dratch.[29] Originally, Dratch, Fey's longtime comedy partner and fellow SNL alumna, was to portray Jenna. Dratch played the role in the show's original pilot, but in August 2006, Jane Krakowski was announced as Dratch's replacement, with Dratch remaining involved in the show playing various characters.[30] Fey attributed the need for the change to the role itself, one Fey called a "straight-ahead acting part" better suited for Krakowski; Fey said she and Dratch "were both very excited about this new direction."[31] Dratch appeared in eleven first season episodes.[26][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] Shortly following the casting of McBrayer and Dratch, Alec Baldwin was cast as Jack Donaghy, the "totally uncensored" Vice President of Development for NBC/GE/Universal/K-Mart.[42] Judah Friedlander was later cast as the staff writer of The Girlie Show, Frank Rossitano.[43] Scott Adsit was finally cast as Pete Hornberger, a long time friend of Liz's and producer of The Girlie Show.[44] Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress and comedian, perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006. ...
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Season one -
 Dennis Duffy (Winters, left) and Liz Lemon (Fey, right) were in a relationship in the middle of the first season. Season one began airing in the United States on October 11, 2006[3] and featured 21 episodes.[45] The season finalé aired on April 26, 2007.[46] When Jack Donaghy, the "Head of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming" at General Electric (GE), is transferred to work at the NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and retool the late night sketch comedy series The Girlie Show, outrage storms through the show's cast and crew, especially among the head writer, Liz Lemon, and the main actress, Jenna Maroney. Jack proceeds to wreak havoc on The Girlie Show, forcing Liz to hire the off-the-wall movie star Tracy Jordan, and then again angering the cast and crew of The Girlie Show when he changes the name to TGS with Tracy Jordan (or just TGS). As the season progresses, the episodes become less about TGS and more about how the characters deal with juggling their lives and their jobs--specifically the protagonist, Liz Lemon, but other characters are also explored. Episodes also become less self contained and various story arcs develop in the second half of the season. For example, the first major story arc centers on Liz's relationship with Dennis Duffy (Dean Winters), "The Beeper King." Other story arcs include: Jenna promoting her movie The Rural Juror; Tracy going on the run from The Black Crusaders; Jack's engagement, which was eventually called off, to a Christie's auctioneer named Phoebe (Emily Mortimer); and another relationship of Liz's with Floyd (Jason Sudeikis). is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Season two - See also: List of 30 Rock episodes#Season 2: 2007 – 2008
 Devon Banks' (Arnett, left) and Jack Donaghy's (Baldwin, right) aspirations to run for the GE chairmanship become more evident during the second season. Season two began airing in the United States on October 4, 2007[4] and will feature 15 episodes.[47] The second season was originally intended to consist of 22 episodes but the order was cut to 15 due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike,[47][48] The season finalé will air on May 8, 2008.[47] As Liz broke up with Floyd during the summer, she is looking for ways to rebound and when Jerry Seinfeld confronts Jack, about a new marketing campaign which featured Seinfeld in all NBC shows, a chance encounter with Liz gives her the much needed advice she needs. Also during the TGS summer hiatus, Jenna becomes obese due to performing in the broadway show Mystic Pizza: The Musical and with the help of Kenneth, loses the weight. Tracy has encountered some marital problems with his wife Angie Jordan (Sherri Shepherd) and they become separated, but later reunite. During the season, Jack develops a relationship with a Democratic congresswoman named Celeste "C.C." Cunningham (Edie Falco). They later break up. An arc that was established in the first season but becomes more apparent in the second is regarding Jack running for the GE chairmanship against his archnemesis Devon Banks (Will Arnett). Season 1 box set, released September 7, 2007 in Region 1 format The following is a list of episodes of the situation comedy television series 30 Rock. ...
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NBC announced on April 2, 2008 that 30 Rock will return with a third season as part of NBC's fall schedule. The season will consist of 22 episodes and is expected to premiere in Fall 2008.[5][6] Season 1 box set, released September 7, 2007 in Region 1 format The following is a list of episodes of the situation comedy television series 30 Rock. ...
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Impact
Critical reception Robert Abele of LA Weekly declared that 30 Rock was "A weirdly appropriate and hilarious symbol of our times."[49] The Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that "The standard caution is relevant - debut episodes tend to be highly polished. All the more reason to enjoy the hilarious scenes and fine ensemble cast here."[50] Some less favourable reviews were received from Brian Lowry of Variety. Lowry said that "Despite her success with "Mean Girls," [Tina] Fey mostly hits too-familiar notes in the pilot. Moreover, she's a limited protagonist, which is problematic."[51] Criticism was also received from Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, who said that "30 Rock is less than the sum of its parts, and, as an entry in the single-camera comedy sweepstakes, it fails to show either the inspired inventiveness of Arrested Development or provide the surprisingly perceptive character studies of The Office."[52] Metacritic gave the pilot episode a Metascore—a weighted average based on the impressions of a select thirty-one critical reviews—of 67 out of 100.[53] L.A. Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called alternative weekly) in Los Angeles, California. ...
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The season premiere of the second season, "SeinfeldVision," which featured Jerry Seinfeld,[54] received mostly positive reviews. Jeff Labrecque of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "SeinfeldVision was a clever and ironic way to incorporate [Jerry] Seinfeld."[55] Matt Webb Mitovich of TV Guide said that "['SeinfeldVision'] was a solid start to the new, fought-for season" and that it did have "some great, great moments." Despite this praise, Webb Mitovich criticised Kenneth and Tracy's "office wife" storyline saying that "we've seen this shtick before on countless other sitcoms, so it was a bit empty and filled with 'easy' jokes." Criticism was also received regarding the "striped outfit... it didn't work. No," referring to a joke involving Jenna trying to distract the TGS writers from her newly gained weight.[56] Lisa Schmeiser of Television Without Pity graded this episode as a "B+."[57] Despite the mostly positive reviews, Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times thought that "SeinfeldVision" "is mostly a reminder that even the most talented actors and writers sometimes slip under pressure."[58] Days before the premiere of the season premiere, Seinfeld was criticized as using his appearance in this episode as a plug for his upcoming feature film Bee Movie. Seinfeld, NBC and General Electric stated that this was done as metahumor.[59] This article is about the comedian. ...
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At the end of 2006, LA Weekly listed 30 Rock as one of the best "Series of the Year."[60] The show also appeared on similar year end "best of" 2006 lists published by The New York Times,[61] The A.V. Club,[62] The Boston Globe,[63] The Chicago Sun-Times,[63] Entertainment Weekly,[63] The Los Angeles Times,[63] The Miami Herald,[63] People Weekly,[63] and TV Guide.[63] The Associated Press wrote that NBC's "Thursday night comedy block—made up of My Name Is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, and 30 Rock—is consistently the best night of prime time viewing for any network."[64] In 2007, it appeared on The Boston Globe's "best of" list[65] as well as the "best of" lists of The Chicago Sun-Times,[65] The Chicago Tribune,[65] Entertainment Weekly,[65] The Los Angeles Times,[65] New Jersey Star-Ledger,[65] The New York Times,[65] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,[65] The San Francisco Chronicle,[65] The San Jose Mercury News,[65] TV Guide and USA Today.[65] 30 Rock was named the best series of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly.[65] L.A. Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called alternative weekly) in Los Angeles, California. ...
The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. ...
The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and New England. ...
Chicago Sun-Times The Chicago Sun-Times is an American newspaper publishing out of Chicago, Illinois. ...
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ...
The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ...
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company. ...
People is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human interest stories, published by Time Inc. ...
TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ...
The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...
My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. ...
The Office is an Emmy Award-winning American television comedy that debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on March 24, 2005. ...
Scrubs is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning American situation comedy/comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001 on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by Touchstone Television. ...
Front page of the Tribune incorrectly reporting that Dewey won the 1948 presidential election The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the Worlds Greatest Newspaper, remains the leading newspaper of the Midwest of the United States. ...
The San Francisco Chronicle, the self-described Voice of the West, is Northern Californias largest newspaper. ...
The Mercs sections vary by day of the week, but Business, Sports, and The Valley are standard daily fare. ...
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ...
Awards and nominations -
Capping its critically successful first season, 30 Rock won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and Elaine Stritch was awarded an Emmy in September 2007 for her work as a guest actress in "Hiatus."[8] Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin were nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Lead Actor in a comedy series categories respectivly.[66] "Jack-Tor" and "Tracy Does Conan" were both nominated in the category of Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.[66] The series received four Creative Arts Emmy Awards.[66] Alec Baldwin received the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical in 2007.[67] Baldwin also received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in 2007.[68] The series also received various other guild award nominations during its first season.[69][70] In 2008, Tina Fey won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical.[71] That year, the series also received a nomination for Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical.[71] Fey and Baldwin both won Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2008.[72] The series took home the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series in 2008.[9] 30 Rock also received the The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Series - Comedy from the Producers Guild of America in 2008.[10] Most recently, the series was honoured with a prestigious Peabody Award.[11] Upon receiving the award, it was noted that "Tina Fey's creation is not only a great workplace comedy in the tradition of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, complete with fresh, indelible secondary characters, but also a sly, gleeful satire of corporate media, especially the network that airs it."[73] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Elaine Stritch (born on February 2, 1925) is an Irish-American actress and singer. ...
Elizabeth Stamatina Tina Fey (b. ...
Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe Award-winning, American actor. ...
This is a list of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series winners: 1974: Mary Tyler Moore, The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1975: Valerie Harper, Rhoda 1976: Mary Tyler Moore, The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1977: Beatrice Arthur, Maude 1978: Jean Stapleton, All In The...
This is a list of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series winners: 1974: Alan Alda - M*A*S*H 1975: Tony Randall - The Odd Couple 1976: Jack Albertson - Chico and The Man 1977: Carroll OConnor - All in the Family 1978: Carroll OConnor...
The Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. ...
The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
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The SAG Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in a Comedy Series. ...
1968: Diahann Carroll, Julia 1971: Mary Tyler Moore, The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1973: Jean Stapleton, All In the Family 1974: Jean Stapleton, All In the Family tied with Cher, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour 1975: Valerie Harper, Rhoda 1976: Cloris Leachman, Phyllis 1977: Carol Burnett, The Carol Burnett...
1970 - The Governor and J.J. 1971 - The Carol Burnett Show 1972 - All in the Family 1973 - All in the Family 1974 - All in the Family 1975 - Rhoda 1976 - Barney Miller 1977 - Barney Miller 1978 - All in the Family 1979 - Taxi 1980 - Taxi; Alice 1981 - Taxi 1982 - M*A*S...
Annual awards given out by the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievements in film, TV, or radio writing. ...
Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a trade organization representing the television and film producers in the United States. ...
The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. ...
Mary Tyler Moore is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ...
Ratings Based on average total viewers per episode of 30 Rock: | Season | Timeslot (EDT) | Season Premiere | Season Finale | TV Season | Rank | Viewers
(in millions) | 18–49 (Rank) | | 1 | Wednesday 8:00 P.M. (October 11, 2006 - November 1, 2006)
Thursday 9:30 P.M. (November 16, 2006 - March 8, 2007)
Thursday 9:00 P.M. (April 5, 2007 - April 26, 2007) | October 11, 2006 | April 26, 2007 | 2006–2007 | #102 | 5.8 | 2.7/7 (#74)[12] | | 2 | Thursday 8:30 P.M. (October 4, 2007 - December 6, 2007)
Thursday 9:00 P.M. (December 13, 2007)
Thursday 8:30 P.M. (January 10, 2008 - May 8, 2008[47]) | October 4, 2007 | May 8, 2008[47] | 2007–2008 | TBA | N/A | N/A | The pilot episode generated 8.13 million viewers,[74] which currently remains the series highest rating. In its original timeslot of Wednesday at 8:00PM EST, the show averaged 6.23 million viewers. |
