Kevin Reilly
Off The Beat with Brian Baumgartner
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week Brian sits down with the unsung hero behind the Office, the man who laid it all down for the show, former NBC executive Kevin Reilly. He and Brian discuss the casting process that felt too good to be true, how The Office was a generational turning of the page if you will, and the decidedly not-lame webisodes of The Accountants that ended up winning an Emmy.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Kevin Riley, who is the president of NBC Entertainment through the entire first chapter |
| 0:10.5 | of the American version of the office. |
| 0:13.3 | Hello, peeps. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome. |
| 0:18.2 | We're at it again. |
| 0:20.5 | This is The Office Deep Dive and I am your host, Brian Baumgartner. |
| 0:25.8 | Hey, you will be listening to my interview with Kevin Riley. |
| 0:31.2 | Who's Kevin Riley? |
| 0:32.9 | Why are you interviewing him? |
| 0:34.4 | I don't even remember his name from the credits. |
| 0:37.4 | Well, that's true. |
| 0:39.0 | Kevin Riley was not in the credits for the show because Kevin Riley was even more powerful |
| 0:44.7 | than that. |
| 0:45.7 | Kevin Riley was the NBC executive that was responsible for bringing the office to the air. |
| 0:53.2 | If it were not for Kevin Riley, the office would have been canceled after six episodes. |
| 1:00.4 | Kevin staked his reputation on our show and he fought for us every step of the way. |
| 1:08.0 | And by the way, Kevin is responsible for shows not just The Office. |
| 1:12.5 | Kevin was a network executive behind such shows as Saved by the Bell, ER, Law and Freaking |
| 1:21.2 | Order, the shield, Nip Tuck rescue me. |
| 1:25.0 | Then after the office, he went on to develop shows like 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Glee, |
| 1:31.4 | New Girl, Bob's Burgers, The Mindy Project. |
| 1:34.6 | I'm going to stop. |
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