Kevin Reilly
Off The Beat with Brian Baumgartner
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Kevin Reilly, the former network exec behind shows like Saved by the Bell, The Sopranos, The Shield, The Office, and more talks about falling in love with television and the palm tree silhouettes of Los Angeles, drinking Evian on Brandon Tartikoff’s sofa, and his perspective on the strike from a network insider.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, |
| 0:14.0 | until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. |
| 0:20.9 | America, y'all better work the hell up. |
| 0:22.9 | Bad things happens to good people in small towns. |
| 0:32.5 | Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And to binge the |
| 0:39.5 | entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I will say for me, anything I've |
| 0:48.7 | ever been involved in I thought was good. I've never said the word, this is a hit. You know, you look at it and you go, |
| 0:54.5 | this is first, like this is a thing. There's something here. And if we keep doing this, |
| 0:59.9 | it's going to be good. And if we get a little lucky, it actually will be something significant. |
| 1:05.4 | And that's just the way I've always looked at it. I've, I've never been surprised. Like, |
| 1:09.5 | oh my God, I had no idea that was good. |
| 1:11.6 | But I've certainly been surprised on the downside times, but I've definitely been surprised |
| 1:17.4 | when finally, not pleasantly like, oh my God, they're catching on to what we've known for a while. |
| 1:29.3 | Kevin Riley was the president of NBC Entertainment through the entire first chapter of the office from when the show was pitched all the way up through the development and the first couple of seasons of the show. |
| 1:39.3 | The modest and humble beginnings of the tremendous television show. |
| 1:50.3 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:56.4 | So glad that you could join me today for this very special episode of Off the Beat. |
| 2:00.7 | I am but your humble host, Brian Baumgartner. |
| 2:02.9 | Today, we have a fascinating guest. |
| 2:04.2 | I know you're going to love it. |
| 2:07.6 | Kevin Riley joins the program once again. |
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