NBC aims for live telecast of musical ‘Hairspray’

Some critics questioned Mr. Greenblatt about the decision to have presidential candidate Donald Trump host “Saturday Night Live”. He’s had some accidents.

Jimmy Fallon’s series of falls have raised some concern among NBC executives, but the network entertainment chief said Wednesday that the late-night comic is “in better shape than he’s ever been”.

“People have been saying to me since The Wiz, ‘Do this show, do that show, ‘” Greenblatt said.

It looks like the line between business and entertainment is a blurry one in the entertainment industry. The network announced yesterday that its next live show will be Hairspray, based on the John Waters film of the same name, and telling the story of Baltimore teenager Tracy Turnblad as she comes face to face with a segregated America in the 1960s. I don’t think there’s an infinite number of these that can be done. It can feel quite limiting. We’re still talking with Aaron Sorkin about doing a live movie of A Few Good Men, but haven’t made all those deals, but that’s a courtroom drama that’s conducive to that and it was a play. “I can’t promise I’ll try, but I’ll try to try”. “And I’ll go back to what I said before, whether we agree with him or not, he is in a very visible position in our electoral process coming up”. It led five other Republican candidates to negotiate free time on NBC stations after they made complaints that they deserved equal time.

NBC also said it had renewed “Late Night with Seth Meyers” through February 2021.

Greenblatt noted that commercial breaks were longer on The Wiz, “because we had bigger overall corporate sponsors on the previous two musicals, which we didn’t have on The Wiz“. “America we cast in Superstore, it wasn’t even designed for her. It’s a great coincidence”.