[05/08/12 - 08:58 AM] Video: A Few Minutes With... David Nevins at the "Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV" Launch Panel By Jim Halterman (TFC)
Back in the days before DVRs and the Internet altered the way we watched television, viewers would actually schedule their lives around when their favorite series aired. However, it was NBC's Must See TV Thursday night programming block during the 1990s that captivated huge audiences for years like no other network. "Seinfeld," "Friends," "Mad About You," "The Cosby Show," "Cheers," "ER" and "Will & Grace" are still regarded as some of the biggest series in television history and Warren Littlefield, who was Entertainment President of NBC during the era, has written a book (with T.R. Pearson) based on this ground-breaking time, "Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV."
Littlefield, along with sitcom director James Burrows, Marta Kauffman (co-creator/Executive Producer, "Friends"), Noah Wyle ("ER," "Falling Skies") and Showtime Entertainment President David Nevins (then-SVP, NBC Prime Time Series) were on hand last night to talk about their respective contributions to the era and Littlefield's book at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills and our Jim Halterman grabbed some time with each of them on the red carpet before the panel.
And here's the complete index of all the interviews from the event:
[09/01/25 - 08:01 AM] Video: "House of Guinness" - Official Trailer - Netflix Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children - each with dark secrets to hide - hold the brewery's fate in their hands.
[09/01/25 - 06:01 AM] Video: "Canelo vs. Crawford" - Special Trailer - Netflix Canelo Álvarez and Terence Crawford clash in a mega-fight for boxing's unified super middleweight crown live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
[08/31/25 - 11:31 AM] Video: "Inside: USA" - Official Trailer - Netflix Twelve creators. One week. A cash prize of $1,000,000. All these Insiders have to do is survive the challenges and not blow the money. Easy, right?
[08/31/25 - 09:02 AM] Video: "Portobello" - Official Teaser - HBO Max The series, by Marco Bellocchio and starring Fabrizio Gifuni as Enzo Tortora, will premiere the first two episodes at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
[08/29/25 - 09:01 AM] Video: "French Lover" - Official Trailer - Netflix When a jaded actor meets a down-on-her-luck waitress in Paris, their unexpected love story begins - but will it survive the glare of the spotlight?
[08/29/25 - 03:01 AM] Video: "RIV4LRIES" - Official Trailer - Netflix At a middle school in Pisa, no one has ever challenged the cool kids - until new girl Terry arrives with bold ideas and the rivalries begin.