Filed under: Industry, Scrubs, Celebrities, Reality-Free

Remember that slogan NBC had in the 80s, “NBC let’s all be there!” They’d run commercials with it and you’d have stars like Philip Michael Thomas pop up in a box and point his two index fingers at you. I think that “be there” philosophy is gone for good at NBC, at least when it comes to stars being on certain shows.

Last week, the now-on-ABC show Scrubs filmed the probable series finale, which will air next spring. The epic episode will feature many of the guest stars that have appeared on the show over the years, but two of them are now on NBC shows and the network won’t let them appear on it, although both wanted to appear. The two stars in question are Masi Oka from Heroes and Sarah Lancaster from Chuck.

I’d love to hear NBC’s side of this story, but if true, it seems like another of the dumb moves that NBC seems to be making nowadays. You would think that the network would just say “fine, you can be on the show,” since it seems like a really trivial thing. Maybe even to just look good. I guess there’s real animosity between NBC and creator Bill Lawrence.

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Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free

You could make a case for Fringe being the biggest premiere of the fall season. Through the involvement of J.J. Abrams, and a boatload of promotion from the network, the show has generated an astonishing amount of buzz. The thing about buzz though, is that it’s often fleeting. At some point the show will have to back it up. There are still many weeks to go before we’ll have a good idea of the result of the Fringe experiment, but where’s the fun in waiting for the numbers? I ask you, Television Squad readers, to put on your ratings analysis caps and make the call. How will Fringe fare?

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