Warren Littlefield - 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The man who ran NBC during the 'Must See TV' era of the 1990s and then became one of TV's most successful producers discusses the secrets of programming a broadcast network, why his own shows go out via cable and streaming and what the future of TV will look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a man who was one of the most successful
0:49.6	executives in American television and now has reinvented himself as one of the top producers in American
0:55.2	Television, Warren Littlefield.
0:58.0	Littlefield made his name at NBC, to which he was recruited in 1979 by the legendary Brandon Tartikoff and at which he rose from the
1:05.3	job of VP in comedy development and current comedy to senior VP of entertainment, to
1:11.0	executive VP of entertainment, and eventually to President of Entertainment, the job at the top of the rock, which also happens to be the name of his excellent 2012 memoir.
1:21.0	During his early years at the Peacock Network, Littlefield helped to develop shows like Cheers, The Golden Girls, and the Cosby show, which established NBC as The Place for Smart Comedy.
1:31.0	When he took the helm in 1990, not long after NBC had topped the Nielsen
1:35.8	ratings for an unprecedented 68 weeks in a row, many thought there was nowhere to go but down.
1:42.0	But by deciding to target sophisticated young Urbanites,
1:45.2	he led the network to even greater success,
1:47.6	most famously on Thursday nights.
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