NEWS & NOTES : NBC TO PROMO WORKPLACE-SET COMEDY `WORKING' ON CNBC.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Hoping to lure people who work in offices to its workplace-set comedy, ``Working,'' NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. is going to promote the series on its business-oriented cable network, CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. . Starting this week, vignettes promoting the Fred Savage-led comedy will be shown on the channel, marking the first time NBC has used CNBC to promote its prime-time entertainment programs. `` `Working' and CNBC are a match made in promo heaven,'' said John Miller, executive vice president of advertising, promotion and event programming for NBC. ``Many of the people watching People watching or crowd watching is a hobby of some people to watch those around them and their interactions. This differs from voyeurism in that it does not relate to sex or sexual gratification. CNBC are the very people `Working' was meant for - career business people who feel their world has gone a little wacky.'' The sitcom debuted last October and ranks among the top 30 shows in NBC's target audience of 18-to-49-year-old viewers. Hoops and more: TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. has picked up a basketball movie from Magic Johnson “Earvin Johnson” redirects here. For the Milwaukee Bucks center, see Ervin Johnson. Earvin Effay Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan), nicknamed Magic and Quincy Jones and plans to introduce new series from Oliver Stone as part of a huge increase in original programming next season. The Johnson/Jones project, ``Passing Glory,'' is a ``Hoosiers''-like drama focusing on an idealistic young black priest who coordinates a basketball game in a segregated town between the best white team and the best black team. ``Witchblade,'' from Stone, is an occult cop drama that follows a female New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of detective chosen to use an ancient weapon to battle Earth's darkest forces. Crossover finales: Ellen DeGeneres, star of ABC's ``Ellen,'' will guest-star on the season finale of NBC's ``Mad About You'' on May 19. And ``Mad About You'' star Helen Hunt will appear in the season finale of ``Ellen.'' |
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