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Coming this fall to NBC! A reboot of 30 Rock starring writer-director Phoebe Roberts, because she’d be fucking perfect. CHECK THIS PITCH:
Roberts plays Leah Citron (because her middle name is Leone, Tina Fey’s first name is Elizabeth, you get the idea) She’s head writer of a hit steampunk TV series who’s got to wrangle both her creative team at work and her personal life at home!
She’s a perfect fit for a new Liz Lemon, updated for this day and age! She too is a stone-cold size zero fox that is just one unflattering haircut from being relatable! She too still has a closet full of bootcut jeans! She too would just hermit away from society if she didn’t need the validation for her art! She too has few interests outside of writing and eating!
Watch Leah’s zany adventures as she:
- wrangles her demanding diva lead actress... Shari Seesaw... with her over-the-top dramatics on and off camera, like not being the first person off-book waaaaaaaay ahead of schedule, or literally making audition processes pointless because if she’s there, why would you cast anyone else!?
- fights with her unruly staff by being terrified to delegate anything because then she’d have to share the credit!
- uses the creative process to tackle her feelings about becoming an old woman, being constantly pissed off, and wanting to be left alone but still have people talk about her all the time!
- Bonds with her older but still strikingly attractive mentor (Robert Downey, Jr), with whom she has remarkable chemistry and whom a good chunk of the audience ships her with!
- Hangs out with stars of previous NBC shows she actually liked! Nobody from Friends, but The Good Place and Parks and Receation is definitely welcome, and pleeeeeeeeeeease let her hang out with David Hyde Pierce
- Looks for love with a passel of stunt-casted hotties! She’ll break up with a seemingly perfect Australian model (guest star Chris Hemsworth) because she can’t commit to his bug-faced porcelain doll collection! She’ll try to make it work with a globe-trotting epidemiologist (guest star Chadwick Boseman) despite the time difference and reaaaaaaaallly not being a night person! She’ll harbor a secret crush on a dashing director on her show (guest star Henry Golding) until he breaks her heart by running away with an extroverted full-figured mathematician! Until at last she settles down with a sweet boy next door type (guest star Chris Evans) who finds her going through his trash endearing!
- Is at least actively trying to be less racist than the original, and will not get all bitter and defensive when you call her out on it by writing ridiculous strawmen of her critics!
MAKE THIS COME TO NBC THIS FALL!
Roberts plays Leah Citron (because her middle name is Leone, Tina Fey’s first name is Elizabeth, you get the idea) She’s head writer of a hit steampunk TV series who’s got to wrangle both her creative team at work and her personal life at home!
She’s a perfect fit for a new Liz Lemon, updated for this day and age! She too is a stone-cold size zero fox that is just one unflattering haircut from being relatable! She too still has a closet full of bootcut jeans! She too would just hermit away from society if she didn’t need the validation for her art! She too has few interests outside of writing and eating!
Watch Leah’s zany adventures as she:
- wrangles her demanding diva lead actress... Shari Seesaw... with her over-the-top dramatics on and off camera, like not being the first person off-book waaaaaaaay ahead of schedule, or literally making audition processes pointless because if she’s there, why would you cast anyone else!?
- fights with her unruly staff by being terrified to delegate anything because then she’d have to share the credit!
- uses the creative process to tackle her feelings about becoming an old woman, being constantly pissed off, and wanting to be left alone but still have people talk about her all the time!
- Bonds with her older but still strikingly attractive mentor (Robert Downey, Jr), with whom she has remarkable chemistry and whom a good chunk of the audience ships her with!
- Hangs out with stars of previous NBC shows she actually liked! Nobody from Friends, but The Good Place and Parks and Receation is definitely welcome, and pleeeeeeeeeeease let her hang out with David Hyde Pierce
- Looks for love with a passel of stunt-casted hotties! She’ll break up with a seemingly perfect Australian model (guest star Chris Hemsworth) because she can’t commit to his bug-faced porcelain doll collection! She’ll try to make it work with a globe-trotting epidemiologist (guest star Chadwick Boseman) despite the time difference and reaaaaaaaallly not being a night person! She’ll harbor a secret crush on a dashing director on her show (guest star Henry Golding) until he breaks her heart by running away with an extroverted full-figured mathematician! Until at last she settles down with a sweet boy next door type (guest star Chris Evans) who finds her going through his trash endearing!
- Is at least actively trying to be less racist than the original, and will not get all bitter and defensive when you call her out on it by writing ridiculous strawmen of her critics!
MAKE THIS COME TO NBC THIS FALL!
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