Friendly reminder that "30 Rock: A One-Time Special" (2020) can be streamed/downloaded/torrented legally from the Internet Archive [discussion]
Friendly reminder that "30 Rock: A One-Time Special" (2020) can be streamed/downloaded/torrented legally from the Internet Archive [discussion]
Liz Lemon, Tracy Jordan, Jack Donaghy, Jenna Maroney and all of the TGS team reunite to help their old friend Kenneth Parcell -- once a network page, now...
I presume it is freely available there because of all the pos-mens and product integortion. It's sort of just one big advertisement disguised as a 30 Rock episode.
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I did not know about this! Thank you for sharing!
Apparently most NBC affiliates refused to air it because aside from simply promoting the upcoming fall schedule, it heavily endorsed the then-new streaming service Peacock. They saw that as a potential means of leading viewers away from them.
Which makes sense from the standpoint of a traditional broadcast business, but if 2020 proved anything was true, it was that streaming services are the new king. Traditional broadcast TV is the horse-drawn carriage business in an automobile world.
I sent this to a friend of mine who is a huge fan of 30 Rock, and he was unaware of it too. So I will thank you again on his behalf: this was much appreciated! Thank you!
Traditional broadcast TV is the horse-drawn carriage business in an automobile world.
"We make horse buggies and the first Model T just rolled into town."
"We're dinosaurs..."
"We don't need two metaphors. That's bad writing. Not that it matters."EDIT: Is that last line there also another "Studio 60 vs. 30 Rock" joke?