The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial terrestrial radio and television network owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower), and Philadelphia (at the Comcast Technology Center). NBC is one of the Big Three television networks, and is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting; it became the network's official emblem in 1979.
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The eighteenth episode of the fifth season of "Friends" and 115th overall. It first aired on NBC in the United States on April 8, 1999. In the episode, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) starts her new job at Ralph Lauren.
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who are the other characters on this show?
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Monica Geller, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing and Ross Geller  the other characters on this show.
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who produced the episode?
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It was written by Michael Curtis and directed by Todd Holland.
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does it have any cultural references?
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Yes, he songs "Never There" by Cake.
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what kind of reception did it receive?
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It was the third highest-rated show on NBC that week, after "ER" and "Frasier".
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were there any critics?
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Yes, "Entertainment Weekly" rated the episode "C", in its review of the fifth season.
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The most recent episodes of the network's shows are usually made available on NBC.com and Hulu the day after their original broadcast. In addition, NBC.com and certain other partner websites (including Hulu) provide complete back catalogs of most of its current series as well as a limited selection of episodes of classic series from the NBCUniversal Television Distribution program library – including shows not broadcast by NBC during their original runs (including the complete or partial episode catalogs of shows like "30 Rock", "The A-Team", "Charles in Charge", "Emergency!", "Knight Rider" (both the original series and the short-lived 2008 reboot), "Kojak", "Miami Vice", "The Office", "Quantum Leap" and "Simon & Simon").
NBC | Video-on-demand services
Network Ten subsequently picked up the show, airing it in its entirety.
The O.C. (season 1) | Introduction
Yahoo! TV's Brian Davis criticized the episode for being too "straightforward in terms of the satire" as it was "generally obvious [...] what each reference and joke was referring to."
The D'oh-cial Network | Release
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The network gradually converted much of its existing programming from standard-definition to high definition beginning with the 2002–03 season, with select shows among that season's slate of freshmen scripted series being broadcast in HD from their debuts.
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"Entertainment Weekly"'s Ken Tucker commented that the fourth season was "a succession of terrific subplots" and praised new main cast member Taylor "as a fine, funny love interest for Ryan". Greg Elwell of "DVD Talk" described Bullit as "the breakout character of the season" but commented that the seasons "dark opening (...) didn't do much to keep viewers around". IGN's Eric Goldman was also critical saying that "as amusing as Che was, his inclusion into some later episodes gets a bit tired". Goldman also commented that "the second half of Season 4 wasn't quite as solid as the first [half]"; however, he added that while the fourth season had to prove itself again as an enjoyable watch "Josh Schwartz rose to this challenge (...) once again creating a show that was witty and self-aware".
The O.C. (season 4) | Reception
The pilot episode of the season gained 7.5 million viewers and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best episodic drama. As the season progressed, ratings picked up with 8 million viewers tuning into for the third episode and 8.6 million viewers watching the fourth installment. This resulted in FOX initially ordering an additional six episodes. The season was split into two parts, the first consisting of seven episodes shown weekly, which averaged 8.43 million viewers. This was followed by a seven-week hiatus, in which FOX announced it had ordered another five episodes, bringing the total season to twenty-seven.
The O.C. (season 1) | Reception
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The episode received mixed reviews from critics and came first in its time slot, helping NBC be the third highest-rated network of the night.
The Delivery (The Office) | Introduction
Despite positive reviews from both 20th Television and sister company, Fox, there were concerns regarding the lack of views it would attract on the network, leading Fox to sell it to NBC. Fox did so because NBC promised to use the high volume of viewers from "The Voice" and the Summer Olympics to bring additional viewers to the series, and Fox wanted to solidify the reputation of its studio among writers and directors as placing shows where they are most likely to succeed, even if it is not Fox. On September 27, 2016, NBC picked up the series for a full season of 18 episodes.
This Is Us | Development
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In its original American broadcast, "The C Word" was watched by 5.0 million households, according to the Nielsen ratings system. It earned a 2.5 rating/6 share in the 18–49 demographic. This means that it was seen by 2.5 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds, and 6 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds watching television at the time of the broadcast. This was a decrease from the previous episode, "Up All Night", which was watched by 5.2 million American viewers. IGN contributor Robert Canning, wrote, "Even in an episode like 'The 'C' Word,' where some of the ideas fall a bit short, there were still plenty of laugh-out-loud moments to talk about.
The C Word | Reception
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While ratings were lower than those of the third season, the final season is generally regarded by fans and critics as an improvement on the third. "Variety"'s Josef Adalian said that "[the show] is once again in great creative shape". He added that "the scripts are snappy, the plots make sense, the acting's solid, [and] the music is appropriately indie" but criticized Fox for "throwing away" the show by giving it the Thursday 9:00 p.m. timeslot. The difficult timeslot Adalian was referring to was against two other very popular shows, "" and "Grey's Anatomy". With a later start to the season in November the premiere attracted 3.4 million viewers, which was a series low and marked a 55 percent decrease in the 18–49 demographic, from the third season premiere.
The O.C. (season 4) | Reception
"The C Word" was written by series creator, executive producer and lead actress Tina Fey, making it her seventh writing credit after the pilot episode, "The Aftermath", "Tracy Does Conan", "The Head and the Hair", "Black Tie", and "Up All Night". The episode was directed by supervising producer Adam Bernstein, making it his fifth for the series. "The C Word" originally aired on NBC in the United States on February 15, 2007, as the fourteenth episode of the show's first season. In an April 2007 interview with "Entertainment Weekly", Fey revealed that she was once called "the c word" by one of her writers at "Saturday Night Live".
The C Word | Production
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Following the receivership, the production facility and other studio assets were sold to Crossroads Christian Communications which was planning to establish a national faith-based television service. C Channel's demise was one part of a troubled start to Canada's subscription television industry. The remaining premium movie channels were forced to restructure into regional monopolies for survival; these monopolies still exist despite the current profitability of this sector. About 10 years later, a second attempt at launching an arts-oriented cable network in Canada was made when the CRTC heard an application by CHUM Limited of Toronto for a Canadian version of the Bravo television network that had been in operation in the United States since December 1980.
C Channel | Epilogue
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The Onion's AV Club gave this episode a B+ rating, while Matt Richenthal of TV Fanatic gave it a 4.4/5.0 rating.
The C-Word (House) | Reception
They believed that Fox, like previous fourth networks, would be limited by being on UHF stations which had poor viewership and mediocre signal reception. NBC entertainment president Brandon Tartikoff dismissively nicknamed Fox "the coat hanger network," implying that viewers would need to attach wire hangers (often used as a free alternative to set-top loop antennas used to receive UHF signals) to their television sets to view the network's shows. NBC head Grant Tinker declared, "I will never put a fourth column on my schedule board. There will only be three." Indeed, just two years into its existence, the network was still struggling, and Fox executives considered pulling the plug on the network.
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The first half of the season averaged 4.06 million viewers, with the season as a whole averaging 4.6 million viewers. This increase was mostly due to 6.7 million viewers, 76 percent more than the season average, tuning in to see the final ever installment of "The O.C." Due to a combination of low ratings and the death of Marissa in season three, it was rumored that the show would not return for a fifth season. In June 2006, Fox confirmed that "the current order for "The O.C." is 16 episodes", but added that there was a chance to add more installments.
The O.C. (season 4) | Reception
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"The Big C"'s pilot episode was received positively by critics, while subsequent episodes received mixed reviews. Season One received an overall score of 66 on Metacritic. Alessandra Stanley of "The New York Times" wrote: ""The Big C" works because most of the writing is strong and believable, and so is Ms. Linney, who rarely sounds a false note and here has perfect pitch... the series is at its best when sardonic and subdued." "Washington Post" critic Hank Stuever said: "Buoyed by scalpel-sharp writing and even keener performances, "The Big C" …walks a fine line of having it both ways. It's for people who are repelled by the warm-fuzzy, disease-o'-the-week dramas of cable television," while EW.com's Ken Tucker quibbled with its major plot point: "My big problem with "The Big C" concerns a crucial decision the show made for the early episodes: Cathy declines to tell those closest to her that she has cancer.
The Big C (TV series) | Critical reception
The episode, however, ranked as the highest-rated NBC series of the night.
Here Comes Treble | Introduction
Finally, the show was cancelled after airing only half of its planned eight episodes, because, as NBC president Brandon Tartikoff put it, "it was not very good. In four weeks I saw no sizable growth in terms of the development of the show."
The News Is the News | Creation
Only NBC avoided the escapist trend during the season, with the exception of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.".
1964–65 United States network television schedule | Introduction
On October 10, 2013, NBC tied an all-time low on Thursday nights (tied with May 17, 2012), while finishing in fourth place (or combined with programming on Spanish-language network Univision, along with "Thursday Night Football" on NFL Network and Major League Baseball playoff coverage on TBS, seventh) for the night. On November 21, 2013, NBC averaged a 1.0 in the adults 18–49 age bracket, its lowest ever in-season average for regularly scheduled programming on the night. On the same night, The CW defeated the NBC comedy block, a first for the network. All three shows were eventually cancelled ("Welcome to the Family" was pulled three episodes into its first season, while "The Michael J.
Must See TV | Change and record ratings lows
In its review from writer Liam Matthews, "NBC's new comedy has an impressive pedigree" (referring to Mike Schur and stars, Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, the latter cited as "arguably the greatest sitcom actor of all time"). Matthews concludes, "The hope is that their combined star power can restore NBC's tarnished comedy brand to its former glory. It won't be the next "Friends", but it's something even better: a network comedy that feels different than anything that's come before." On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season has a rating of 100%, based on 58 reviews, with an average rating of 8.95/10.
The Good Place | Critical response
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NBC would then repurpose the episodes to be aired on the network later in the season.
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E!'s only sister networks prior to the NBC Universal merger were the now-defunct channels Style Network (then Esquire Network) and G4, along with Comcast's sports networks: Versus, Comcast SportsNet and Golf Channel. In the case of Versus, E! staff produced that network's "Sports Soup" and G4's "Web Soup", while the Orlando-based Golf Channel featured no crossovers with E! at all due to incompatible audiences and operations. Versus and Golf Channel were taken under the direct control of the NBC Sports division, with the former being renamed NBC Sports Network in January 2012, and are no longer connected to their former sister networks beyond advertising and in-house operations.
E! | Introduction
After still-deteriorating ratings during the fourth season, NBC had originally planned to order just a shortened fifth season of only 13 episodes, but eventually settled for another full run, which was, either way, going to be the final season. At the beginning of season five, Olivia Brown recalled, "The show was trying to reinvent itself." Dick Wolf said in an interview for "E! True Hollywood Story", after the fifth season, it was all just "...kind of over", and that the show had "run its course". In May 1989, NBC aired the two-hour series finale, "Freefall". Despite its status as the "series finale", there were three episodes that did not air ("World of Trouble", "Miracle Man", and "Leap of Faith"), which appeared during the June re-runs as "Lost Episodes".
Miami Vice | Cancellation
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The episode was viewed by 7.898 million people and was NBC's fourth most-watched program that week, only losing to "The Office", "The Biggest Loser", and a special "Dateline NBC". Steve Heisler of "The A.V. Club" rated this episode a C-. Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode 7.2 out of 10.
Building 26 | Critical reception
Note that the episodes were not always broadcast by NBC in the correct story order. For the correct story order for the episodes, refer to the order from the production codes.
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The fourth and final season of "The O.C.", an American teen drama television series, aired in the United States from November 2, 2006 to February 22, 2007 and consisted of sixteen episodes. "The O.C"s final season aired Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. ET in the United States on Fox, a terrestrial television network. Fox tested a new timeslot by airing the second episode on Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. ET against ABC's "Lost" and CBS's "Criminal Minds". With "Lost" about to enter a three-month hiatus, Fox hoped that changing the timeslot for "The O.C." would attract back viewers it had lost since the end of the previous season; however, the move was unsuccessful and the show returned to its Thursday timeslot.
The O.C. (season 4) | Introduction
The vast majority of the series on the TNBC block were produced by Peter Engel.
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The network has aired same-week runs of NBC series (such as "The Voice", "Fashion Star", "Whitney", and "Are You There, Chelsea?"), and in the past aired previews of G4 programming to give that network an extended promotional platform due to their lowered carriage when it was removed from DirecTV in November 2010.
E! | Acquired series and films
On May 12, 2019, NBC renewed the series for three additional seasons, through an intended sixth season. The fourth season premiered on September 24, 2019. The fifth season is set to premiere on October 27, 2020.
List of This Is Us episodes | Introduction
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In August 2012, NBC gave a straight-to-series order for the series.
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In comparison, the notorious flop "quarterlife", which had also been canceled after one episode by NBC several weeks earlier, had a 3.1 rating in the 10 p.m. time slot, where fewer networks broadcast. CBS then decided not to make the remaining six episodes.
Secret Talents of the Stars | Ratings
NBC Station hired in October 2011 Meredith McGinn as a vice president to leading the development and launch of the network. On November 3, 2011, NBC Owned Television Stations announced that its seven local Nonstop subchannels would become a single national network under the proposed name NBC Nonstop Network (also to have been called NBC Nonstop or Nonstop Network); the format of the national network was originally planned to feature a format similar to the local Nonstop channels, which would have placed the network in direct competition with the Live Well Network. An NBC executive indicated that the independently formatted Nonstop channels were performing well, but needed separate programming.
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The one-hour show debuted on March 30, 1977, and television critic John J. O'Connor of the "New York Times" and other critics gave highly positive reviews of the show. O'Connor called it "easily the freshest, liveliest and most exciting premiere of a series that television has concocted in years." The opening episode also received respectable ratings. Moreover, the episode announced that the show would be returning, but NBC had already decided it would pull the plug. The second episode was not aired the following week, reportedly because the network did not like the show's concept, or alternatively because NBC claimed that improved ratings for "C.P.O.
3 Girls 3 | Run and reception
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Around 11.48 million Americans tuned in to watch the episode during its original broadcast.
The D'oh-cial Network | Introduction
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In 2011, NBC was finally able to find a breakout hit in the midseason reality singing competition series "The Voice". Otherwise, NBC had another tough season, with every single new fall program getting cancelled by season's end – the third time this has happened to the network after the fall of 1975, and the fall of 1983 – and the midseason legal drama "Harry's Law" being its only freshman scripted series to be renewed for the 2011–12 season. The network nearly completed its full conversion to an all-HD schedule (outside of the Saturday morning time slot leased by the Qubo consortium, which NBCUniversal would rescind its stake in the following year) on September 20, 2011, when "Last Call with Carson Daly" converted to the format with the premiere of its 11th season.
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NBC is a television broadcast network in the United States. NBC may also stand for:
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The show was a critical and ratings failure: "Variety" stated "A more poorly conceived, routined and paced outing would be difficult to imagine." It was cancelled in June, having already been pre-empted 4 times in 5 months. It was succeeded by "The Steve Allen Show", whose reputation became a marked contrast to that of "The NBC Comedy Hour".
The NBC Comedy Hour | Introduction
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NBC began broadcasting the city finals and national finals episodes in the fourth season. By the fifth season, G4 was set to be replaced by Esquire Network and had wound down all original programming—besides "American Ninja Warrior"—by January 2013. Notably, the sideboard advertising along the fifth season's courses listed Esquire Network as the broadcaster because G4 was going to transition into Esquire Network by April 22, 2013—prior to the season premiere. However, the channel switch was delayed to September 23, 2013, and Esquire Network took over Style Network's channel space instead. As a result, NBC became the sole broadcaster of the original episodes while Esquire Network aired reruns until the eighth season.
American Ninja Warrior | History
The dramas were directed by Andrew C. Love. Overall supervision of production was by Margaret Cuthbert and Wade Arnold. Lamont Johnson, Don Stanley and John Wald were the announcers.
NBC Presents: Short Story | Introduction
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By the early 2000s, the "Must See TV" slogan had fallen by the wayside in NBC's promotions; more importantly, NBC had gone from the top-rated network on Thursday nights to second behind CBS, eventually third behind ABC and ultimately a distant fourth behind Fox. NBC failed to develop hit shows to replace long-running staples "Friends", "Frasier", "Seinfeld", and "Will & Grace". After airing a two-hour comedy block on Thursday for 21 straight seasons, NBC broke with tradition in 2004 by replacing the 9 p.m. hour with the hour-long reality competition program "The Apprentice", although its Thursday night lineup retained its top 20 position.
Must See TV | Decline
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California". It ranked third in its timeslot and was the highest-rated NBC series of the night.
Trivia (The Office) | Introduction
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Questions about the series' continued viability began before the third season aired. Just hours before the third-season premiere, when asked whether NBC suddenly moving Jay Leno out of primetime lowered the bar for "Chuck", NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin replied, "I wouldn't say the bar's lower, but we obviously have less choice at the moment, so he's got a better shot." When asked about the series' chances of being renewed for a fourth season and whether fans would have to step in again, Angela Bromstad replied, "Well, it's got to maintain, and it depends on development," but said that the show is a "pleasant surprise, and they're doing great work." The ratings for "Chuck" slipped, falling to a series-low 1.9 demo for two weeks running as of the 11th episode of the season, "Chuck Versus the Final Exam." The "TV By The Numbers" website reported on March 23, 2010 that this was "below the ratings level that would indicate likely renewal now" despite the overall ratings difficulties that NBC was facing.
Chuck (TV series) | Series renewal, 2010
Despite this, the episode was the highest-rated NBC series of the night that it aired, as well as the highest-rated non-sports NBC broadcast for the week it aired.
Counseling (The Office) | Introduction
The second season was widely received as inferior to the first, but it has been noted that this may be slightly unfair. The show moved to "ultra-competitive Thursday" nights which Schwartz described as a "real vote of confidence [from] the network", but many attributed placing "The O.C." against the likes of "Survivor", "Joey" and "Will & Grace" as part of "The O.C."'s decline in popularity. The move improved FOX's performance at the new time slot, but lost the show viewers. The season premiere attracted 8.6 million viewers, but average viewing figures decreased thirty percent from the previous season to 7 million.
The O.C. (season 2) | Reception
The time-slot for the second half of the season was originally planned for Thursday nights, but facing competition from "" on CBS and "Will & Grace" on NBC it was moved to Wednesday nights at 9:00 p.m. instead. Overall season one was the highest-rated new drama of the season among adults aged 18 to 34, averaging a total of 9.7 million viewers. The show picked up four Teen Choice Awards and was nominated for another two, as well as getting nominated for the Outstanding New Program TCA Award. In the UK, its two showings a week averaged 1.2 million viewers, and it was one of the highest rating Sunday daytime programs, also attracting fans to E4 on Monday nights.
The O.C. (season 1) | Reception
Ramshaw flew, defecatingly, about NBC's Studio 8-H ignoring both Knight's entreaties and proffered chicken heads – throwing their segment, and the rest of the Allen program, into hysterical chaos.
C.W.R. Knight | Introduction
"Meet the Press" was the first regular series on a major television network to produce a high-definition broadcast on February 2, 1997, which aired in the format over WHD-TV in Washington, D.C., an experimental television station owned by a consortium of industry groups and stations which launched to allow testing of HD broadcasts and operated until 2002 (the program itself continued to be transmitted in 480i standard definition over the NBC network until May 2, 2010, when it became the last NBC News program to convert to HD). NBC officially began its conversion to high definition with the launch of its simulcast feed, NBC HD, on April 26, 1999, when "The Tonight Show" became the first HD program to air on the NBC network as well as the first regularly scheduled American network program to be produced and transmitted in high definition.
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Toronto-based company Lively Arts Market Builders Inc. was one of several companies that received a license from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to provide a subscription television service for Canadian cable companies. The company's offering, C Channel, would feature artistic content such as theatrical, opera and ballet performances. This format was distinct from the other new pay-movie services, First Choice and Superchannel. C Channel, First Choice and Superchannel began their broadcasts on February 1, 1983. C Channel's President Edgar Cowan predicted 200,000 subscribers and financial equilibrium within a year.
C Channel | History
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While this is one of the many different reactions people have to such a diagnosis in real life, in a comedy-drama like this, it makes everyone around her seem a bit dim." The second season received similar reviews to the first, receiving a score of 64 on Metacritic. Maureen Ryan of AOL TV stated that "Having a character and her family deal with a potentially fatal illness is such a rich arena for both drama and black comedy, but so far, "The Big C" hasn't been able to mine that topic with consistent freshness and depth." Ken Tucker of "Entertainment Weekly" was critical towards the show, but commended the acting, stating that "Much of "The Big C"'s unoriginal dramatization of cancer concerns is mitigated by the fresh, dynamic performances of Laura Linney and Oliver Platt." The third season received a score of 67 on Metacritic.
The Big C (TV series) | Critical reception
The program was widely criticized by the scientific community. Donald Johanson said it was "absolutely shameful, and it sort of sets us back 100 years". Jim Foley of TalkOrigins called it a "pseudo-scientific mishmash of discredited claims and crackpot ideas". However, the criticism did not prevent NBC from re-broadcasting the special on June 8, 1996. In response, John Carman wrote in the "San Francisco Chronicle", "You'd think the NBC brass would be a touch embarrassed by the program, and eager to let the little furor fritter away into oblivion. But then you really would be a simpleton. NBC, a subsidiary of the science giant General Electric, does not exist to sharpen minds.
The Mysterious Origins of Man | Reception
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Sara Brady from Television Without Pity gave the episode a C rating.
The Read-Through | Critical reception
The experiment lasted roughly one season; after its failure, NBCi's operations were folded back into NBC. The NBC Television portion of the website reverted to NBC.com. However, the NBCi website continued in operation as a portal for NBC-branded content (NBCi.com would be redirected to NBCi.msnbc.com), using a co-branded version of InfoSpace to deliver minimal portal content. In mid-2007, NBCi.com began to mirror the main NBC.com website; NBCi.com was eventually redirected to the NBC.com domain in 2010.
NBC | NBCi
Notably, "Today", the "NBC Nightly News", and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" immediately saw major ratings gains in the market after their move to WRAL. The former two shows tallied their highest ratings on record in the Triangle on the day channel 5 officially returned to NBC, showing gains of well over 200 percent compared to their previous showings on WNCN. By contrast, CBS' competing programs lost more than half their audience share.
WRAL-TV | Return to NBC