In case you don’t already know, actress Jennifer Aniston will be appearing on an episode of NBC’s 30 Rock in the upcoming season, which starts October 30th. What you may not know is that she will be appearing in webisodes on the show too according to New York’s dBusiness News. Cool beans! Also this may mean Jennifer could be shooting more 30 Rock episodes in the near future and she will be if the budget allows.
Now the “30 Rock” worm turns once again as it was announced by the show’s producers that Aniston’s stalker character – a down-and-out Chicago-based talk show host that the show’s writers call “a female Jerry Springer” — will have her own set of stalkers on the show who will pursue her through a number of prime-time NBC shows and in some innovative Internet-only episodes reminiscent of Federico Fellini, Tim Burton and “Hairspray’s” John Waters.
“It’s a bizarre-yet-commercial plot twist designed to take the show in an innovative-yet-lucrative multiplatform direction,” says Fey, the show’s executive producer. “Our intention is to make television industry history while at the same time avoiding potentially injurious FCC fines.”
It only gets better from there
According to Fey, the original “30 Rock” stalker plotline had been in the news so often in real life that it risked being labeled “derivative,” “generic” – “and even lazy.”
Instead, in an original plot twist that Fey likens to “peanut butter meets chocolate,” Anniston will not only “stalk” but be “stalked” by a team of down-and-out D-list comedians attempting to create their own reality TV show through product placement revenues from a brand-name suppository firm that has agreed to be their sponsor.
“Once her own habit of stalking celebrities is accidentally revealed, Jennifer’s character unwittingly becomes the star of a faux-reality show in which she in turn is stalked by this group of low-life comedians whose goal is to commit some kind of product placement upon her for this suppository firm that is paying their bills,” says Fey, who quickly adds that in real life the sponsor will “probably be Cheetos or someone like that.”
So in other words to completely follow the story line you have to not only watch on t.v. but also get online and watch the webisodes. NBC might be on a break through. Watch as the other networks try to play catch up. I think it’s a great idea and keeps NBC as being one of the networks that always keeps it fresh and it could be the beginnings of seeing the return of NBC’s domination of Thursday Nights.
