Kevin Reilly is a former NBC president fired in May 2007 after the network had one of its least-watched seasons ever.[1] NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...
Early in his career at NBC, Reilly was involved with Law & Order in its first season and developed ER. He also worked at Brillstein Grey, where he developed shows including The Sopranos, NewsRadio, and Just Shoot Me. Before rejoining NBC in May 2004, he developed The Shield and Nip/Tuck for FX, and acquired the Denis Leary show Rescue Me for the network.[2] Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... ER is a long-running, award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... This article is about the TV series. ... NewsRadio was an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 on NBC. The show was created by executive producer Paul Simms. ... Just Shoot Me was an American television sitcom airing on NBC from 1997 to 2003. ... The Shield is an American police-drama television series shown on FX Networks in the U.S. and other networks internationally. ... Nip/Tuck is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ... FX (short for Fox Extended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ... Denis Leary (born Denis Colin Leary on August 18, 1957) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, comedian, writer and director. ... Rescue Me is a critically praised American television drama and dark comedy that premiered on the FX Network in 2004. ...
Reilly will be out after four years at NBC, despite having received a new three-year contract in February 2007.[3]