NBC Does Not Take Responsibility for Donald Trump
Donald Trump was a public figure long before selling The Apprentice to NBC, but there's no doubt the reality show turned him into a national celebrity.
Does that make NBC responsible for Trump's current presidential campaign? NBC president Robert Greenblatt doesn't think so.
The Apprentice may have helped make Donald Trump a household name in middle America, but at the end of the day, it's the voters and the press that put him on the podium he has now.
Greenblatt also added that, should Trump lose the election in November and wish to return to his television career, he would "never" be allowed back on The Apprentice, as long as Greenblatt's running the network.
Reborn didn't work: NBC is definitely on the reboot bandwagon, but the peacock network struggled to find success with a Heroes revival series.
Despite the lackluster response to Heroes, NBC is still leaning into the reboot bandwagon, specifically with turning popular movies into TV shows.
Greenblatt confirms that the network's take on Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men is still in the works, but producers are still a few weeks away from announcing the casting for the parts famously played by Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon.
Comedy has had a hard time at NBC since the collapse of Must-See TV Thursdays a few years ago.