Realizing that NBC executives exhibited very little desire to micromanage various aspects of the show, the staff felt confident they would be allowed to push outside of the mainstream talk-show boundaries and thus set about putting together a quirky, absurdist, and odd program.

It was only after the first episode that NBC executives felt the show was too male-centric, and demanded that creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David add a woman to the cast.

NBC executives hoped to get Carvey to take over the 12: 30 a. m. ( ET ) weeknight spot in the network's lineup in 1993 when David Letterman left his show, Late Night with David Letterman, for an 11: 30 p. m. ( ET ) show on CBS.

Since the NBC network owns the Telemundo company, executives at NBC decided that it would be a good idea for Arrarás to be a panelist for the candidates ' debate during the " Iowa Brown and Black Presidential Forum " in 2004.

By 1956, NBC executives had grown dissatisfied with Swayze in his role anchoring the network's evening news program, which fell behind its main competition, CBS's Douglas Edwards with the News, in 1955.

With network executives perceiving the instability of this arrangement as a factor in Nightly News losing audience share to the CBS Evening News, NBC discontinued the rotation, and McGee eventually took over for Hugh Downs as host of The Today Show.

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The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too " cerebral " for the average American viewer.

" NBC executives felt the show was too male-centric, and demanded that creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David add a woman to the cast as a condition for commissioning the show, as revealed in the commentary on the Season 1 and 2 DVD.

In 1956, NBC News executives considered various possibilities to anchor the network's coverage of the Democratic and Republican political conventions, and when executive J. Davidson Taylor suggested pairing two reporters ( he had in mind Bill Henry and Ray Scherer ), producer Reuven Frank, who favored Brinkley for the job, and NBC's director of news, Joseph Meyers, who favored Chet Huntley, proposed combining Huntley and Brinkley.

While pitching the concept of a " show about nothing " to NBC executives, George dates executive Susan until The Virgin, when she is fired.

It wasn't until Henning suggested that he would reproduce live Harry Houdini's famous and highly dangerous water torture escape — for the first time since Houdini performed it himself — that the NBC executives signed him.

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: NBC attorneys journalists and security officials at Rockefeller Center fraudulently under the " Freedom of Information Act " all orders NBC executives got the U. S. federal district attorney's office who got FBI to get Interpol to establish task force that located me in Dover England.

Speculation in the media seemed to imply that NBC executives had eased her out to advance younger NBC newscaster Deborah Norville, who had begun to play a larger role in the two-hour morning program.

Imagining Holt ’ s fictional boss, Gleason proposed to Butler, “ Wouldn ’ t it be great if he showed up and made her crazy ?” In 1981, Gleason, Butler, Erwin and Tinker pitched the series to NBC, and were initially rejected by executives who didn't " get " the premise.

Pierce Brosnan auditioned for the role of Remington Steele, but was initially refused by NBC executives who were concerned that Brosnan was a relative unknown in America.

Of this group, the creators chose some to audition again for Warner Bros. Television executives, who chose the final group of a few actors to audition for NBC executives ; as they decide whether to purchase a pilot, network executives generally have ultimate authority over casting.

This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

" " When deputies arrived, Heche told them that she was " God, and was going to take everyone back to heaven ... in a spaceship ," according to a police report that was aired on NBC.

Sandler told Conan O ' Brien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him and Farley from the show in 1995.

According to the magazine TV Guide, NBC told Blocker he was too old to play the Hoss scion, but gave him the role of an unrelated newspaper reporter.

The story of the trial was told in a 1982 miniseries for NBC Little Gloria ...

" Macdonald made his final appearance as Weekend Update anchor in December 1997, after NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer — a longtime friend of Simpson, who had previously told Michaels to not let his friendship affect the show — demanded his dismissal from the segment, despite Michaels ' protest that making the change in the middle of the season would be difficult for the show.

Arriving shortly before airtime at the Philadelphia studios, Cantor was reportedly told to cut the song because the NBC New York censors considered some of the lyrics too risqué.

( The show's head writer, Goodman Ace, later told radio host Richard Lamparski that Allen's lucrative NBC contract was a large factor in getting him on the show, though Allen also wrote the segments on which he appeared and consulted with the respected Ace and staff on other portions of the show.

NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, " First Person Singular ", which is told entirely from the point-of-view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed.

NBC also asked for a premise pilot which told the story of how Laura Holt met the man who became Remington Steele.

He told Dateline NBC in a 2006 broadcast that his mother sometimes worked as a prostitute and his father was an alcoholic who took Christophe to an orphanage when the boy was 5.

Russert told this story to Jay Leno when he was a guest on The Tonight Show on NBC on June 6, 2006.

During this time, NBC executives told the bald Scott to wear a hairpiece.

When Enright subsequently told him the promise could not be kept because he had sold his shows to NBC itself, Stempel called Jack O ' Brian, a columnist who covered television for the Journal-American.

Just as Pat is about to reveal the truth, an audience member ( played by Adam Sandler ) suddenly stands up and screams at Pat not to tell, declaring that NBC will be bereft of comedy if Pat told, as the hit programs Cheers was ending its run and David Letterman was leaving the network.

close friend of Coe told NBC News that he invokes Hitler to show the power of small groups — for good and bad.

Jeff Sharlet, in contrast, told NBC News that when he was an intern with the Fellowship " we were being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin and Mao " and that Hitler's genocide " wasn't an issue for them, it was the strength that he emulated.

At an interview in English after the press conference, Schabowski told the NBC reporter Tom Brokaw that " it is no question of tourism.

In 1967, NBC, which at the time had an extremely low tolerance of local pre-emptions, told WSOC to start clearing all of NBC's programming or they would pull their affiliation.

NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin told ABC News he expected Daly to stay with the network " in some fashion ", but did not elaborate.

But it was wonderful, I grew up reading about Snow White and fantasizing about being the fairest of them all, and there I was ... My manager told me that NBC had offered me the role of Snow White and I said, ' I'll take it.

The first few years of Law & Order had mediocre ratings and finally after the close of the 1992-1993 season, NBC told creator / executive producer Dick Wolf that they would cancel the show, unless he added a few women to the all-male cast.

After the dress rehearsal, NBC Symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini told Menotti, " This is the best you've ever done.