letterten 2010-11 fall preview

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Sun	Football Night in America Sep 12 (premiere, Thu Sep 9, 8 et) Season 4 [debut: Sep 10, 2006]			Sunday Night Football (8:20p) Sep 12 (premiere, Thu Sep 9, 8:20et/5:20pt) Season 25 [Nov 8, 1987; ESPN]

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Mon	Chuck Sep 20 Season 4 [Sep 24, 2007]		The Event Sep 20 (Pilot encore, Sep 25, 8pm) Season 1		Chase Sep 20 (Pilot encore, Sep 25, 9pm) Season 1
Tue	The Biggest Loser Sep 21 Iteration 10 [Oct 19, 2004]				Parenthood Sep 14 Season 2 [Mar 2, 2010]
Wed	Undercovers Sep 22 Season 1		Law & Order: SVU Sep 22 (2-hr premiere) Season 12 [Sep 20, 1999]		Law & Order: Los Angeles Sep 29 Season 1
Thu	Community Sep 23 Season 2 [Sep 17, 2009]	30 Rock Sep 23 Season 5 [Oct 16, 2006]	The Office Sep 23 Season 7 [Mar 24, 2005]	Outsourced Sep 23 Season 1	The Apprentice Sep 16 (2-hr premiere, 9pm) Iteration 10 [Jan 8, 2004]
Fri	School Pride Sep 24 Season 1		Outlaw Wed Sep 15, 10pm (in-slot, Sep 17) Season 1		Dateline NBC Sep 23 Season 18 [Mar 31, 1992]
Sat	Encore Programming ongoing Encore Presentations of current NBC Programming

NBC. Angela Bromstad, President

The Peacock's grand experiment of Leno at 10 didn't exactly work. Ok, that was being kind. It was a failure of epic proportions. As much as I'm not a fan of Jeff Zucker, I do have to give him kudos for trying. Of course, the way NBC handled the end of that was a textbook way of how not to handle things.

There's a tiny bit of promise on NBC this year. They rightfully stuck with last year's midseason Parenthood, which did fairly well. Their Thursday comedy block has three solid entries and if newcomer Outsourced can deliver, it really would be the first time since "Must See TV" died some years back, that NBC actually has a bonafide comedy night.

All of the new players on the Peacock grid are a crapshoot, with the exception of Law & Order: Los Angeles. As I mention elsewhere, Outlaw and The Apprentice need to swap slots.

It's going to take awhile to bring viewers back to the level of programming NBC used to deliver, but with the promotional platform of Sunday Night Football, they should be able to at least get viewers to sample some new programming. At least this season, it feels like they are trying.

Only Community and Parenthood remain from last year's new entries and overall, seven NBC shows are dead.

NBC: We're not as bad as we've been the last few years, but not nearly as good as we once were.