NBC (NETWORK)

General administrative duties including meeting and travel planning, expense reports, scheduling, phone/mail, supplies, filing and other business matters.

Work directly with producers and senior producers to help pitch, write, and produce entertainment, lifestyle, and pop culture content for broadcast.

Assist with multiple aspects of production including: compiling research for production team and talent, organizing production logistics, creating graphics and lower thirds during breaking news and special coverage.

Real-time news research and gathering throughout the week with an emphasis on politics and entertainment. Generate monologue joke set-ups conforming in the style of news lede-writing.

Acquire various photo and graphic elements for guest and comedy segments. Utilize internet and other research techniques to gather photo elements. Identify any clearance, copyright and standards restrictions for acquired elements and properly license all photos and graphic elements.

Assist producers with logging media, shooting elements, finding file video and clearing new imagery for news-of-day and feature spots.

Assist producers with logging media, shooting elements, finding file video and clearing new imagery for news-of-day and feature spots.

Manage individual and team expenses and coordinate travel with our internal travel consultants. Meticulously track the status of talent and production for all projects.

Assist in copying and distributing scripts and rundowns. Answering phones and taking messages. Conduct online research relevant to sketches and material being written for the show. Keeping up with changes as scripts are rewritten throughout the week.

This is a list of various TV mandates for 2023 for streamers and networks.

Peacock still exists within the cable department and wants to be writer focused.

Only buying shows that have a real shot of going forward/ have the right auspices.

Prepare agendas, development slates, creative materials, and production/legal updates prior to any meetings or calls.

Similar to what we shared last Spring, here are the updated PODS for the TV industry in 2021.

July has proven to be the roller coaster of emotions we all thought it would be.

Here is a breakdown of the television mandates for networks, cable and streamers for the 2020-2021 season.

Alyssa Feller, Jonathan Giles, Michael Hartney, John Mahone, Cameron Smith, Natasha Vaynblat and Bryan Yang have been named to take part in the six-day program held at 30 Rock meant to help promote comedy writing talent from diverse backgrounds.

Legend joins Alice Cooper in the live musical airing on Easter Sunday, April 1, which will be staged in front of a live audience at Brooklyn’s Marcy Armory.

The initiative is “focused on female directors and a commitment to work toward gender parity among scripted series directors across the network.”

The peacock network has picked up three new pilots from big-name talent — one from Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy, another from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and a final one from Adam Sztykiel and Bill Lawrence.

Femme-centric sports film Blue Crush is getting a shot at the small screen as NBC puts a series adaptation in the works. The film from Imagine Entertainment and Universal Studios was released in 2002 and starred Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sanoe Lake.

Every four years, Americans are treated to some of the best writing and performances of Saturday Night Live with the presidential election and this year, network NBC will air a one hour 2016 SNL Election Special at 10PM EST/PST, the night before Americans cast their votes.

Shades of Blue star Jennifer Lopez is reteaming with NBC for a new series, C.R.I.S.P.R., with a script order. The series is a procedural with a futuristic twist and has Bates Motel’s Anthony Cipriano attached to the script.

Eager to hear from real people, NBC has picked up a new alternative comedy series, Common Sense. The gist of the half-hour series, which has been given six episodes, is that every week a recurring cast of people from around the country will give their two cents on a variety of news stories.

Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman, writers of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, are taking their horror interests to the small screen with The Eight at NBC.

Now that all five networks have revealed their fall premieres we can start making our schedules and fighting with family and roommates about who will be relegated to the DVR!

NBC has revealed the premiere dates for their fall schedule which will begin mid-September. Among the series are This Is Us, The Good Place, and Parks and Recreation.

NBC has announced that Hairspray will be their fourth live musical event. This will mark the network’s fourth live musical following The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and the highly successful The Wiz. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are set to serve as executive producers of the live show. The two were also the producers of the 2007 Hairspray movie musical.

Previously reported as a possible film rights bonanza, NBC has decided to take the terrifying true story of a New Jersey family and the “Watcher” who stalks their new home to television.

Stand-up comedian Jon Rudnitsky will be the latest featured player to join the cast of Saturday Night Live when the iconic variety show returns to NBC for its 41st season.