Talk of Trump Infuses NBC's Day at TCA

Unfortunately, its fall season isn’t looking as promising, with such relatively tepid scripted fare as “The Player,” “Chicago Med,” “Blindspot,” “Truth Be Told” and “Heroes Reborn” and the tough to describe live variety/taped comedy hybrid “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris.” It may be that “Sunday Night Football” and “The Voice” will have to carry the network through to December, when it will continue to uphold its title as the Best Holiday Season Network with its annual telecast of the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, its all-star live production of the musical “The Wiz” and the first entry in its new Dolly Parton-powered movie franchise, “Coat of Many Colors.”

Even its late-night stronghold, comprised of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” will face formidable new“You know, he’s a lovely guy,” Greenblatt admitted. “He was very much a collaborator and worked with us closely on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and is a really effusive, great guy. We weren’t in any sort of adversarial position. There were no controversies. He worked really closely with Mark Burnett, who is the uber producer of all time. So it was a congenial, really great relationship.”