Alec Baldwin recently said he believes 30 Rock will return for a 7th season. He’s not sure if it will be a full season or a shortened order.  (My guess is they are negotiating that right now.)  But in any case he expects it to return.  This is probably because the writers are nearing the end of Season 6 and perhaps have started writing the final episodes planning on a 7th season.  Whatever the case is hopefully they writers are given enough time to prepare and ending they’d be proud of.

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Obviously Alec isn’t the best source of information when it comes to 30 Rock’s longevity so we’ll wait for NBC to make an announcement.  But all signs look good!

The AV Club is doing a sort of advent calendar featuring articles about Christmas on TV.  One of the Days they covered 30 Rock’s four Christmas Specials.  It was a nice read especially since this season we won’t get one .  Check it out:

Unfortunately, 30 Rock isn’t currently on the air to provide us with a new Christmas episode, leaving us instead to look back at the four great holiday episodes the show has given us over the years. What makes the 30 Rock Christmas episodes work so well is a double fakeout of holiday spirit. Typically, an episode begins with the saccharine TV merriment that accompanies the usual “Hey, guys, it’s our Christmas show!” episode. Next, the episode quickly heads for a cynical, dark space, often accompanied by drunkenness, family dysfunction, or even a brush with racial humor. But then the episode always ends on a truly sentimental note (usually with a song), which is what makes the episodes so legitimately heartwarming. We don’t need to pretend it’s the 1950s and everything is perfect in order to really enjoy the holidays; we can admit that we’re a bunch of messed-up sickos, but once a year, we’re capable of getting mushy and merry in our own way.

The rest at AV Club.

Ad Age released their annual chart of estimated cost for a 30 second commercial spot for each show on broadcast prime time. You can click through each day on their website. But here is just NBC’s shows so you can see where 30 Rock sits.  Notice 30 Rock is NBC’s number 3 scripted show behind The Office (obviously) and Smash (which premieres in the spring.)  Plus all the money NBC is getting in syndication.  I don’t see why 30 Rock will end until Tina Fey and Co want it to.

Sunday Night Football $512,367
The Voice $206,500
The Office $178,840
Smash $154,000
The Apprentice $145,500
30 Rock $133,000
Whitney $120,604
Awake $117,550
Parks and Recreation $116,883
The Biggest Loser $106,153
L&O: SVU $104,528

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Even though there’s no new episodes for 7 months we still hope you visit us here at PCB.  We have some things planned for the long hiatus and will continue reporting the news and 30 Rock goodies all year.  Here’s a look at what we have planned:

- Season 2 (and 3, 4, 5 Tournament)  Starting Monday!
- Return of the Mega Triva Post
- Annoyingly thorough Emmy Coverage
- DVD release coverage
- Summer reruns
- Syndication in the Fall!
- News on 30 Rock’s return + spoilers.

But what else?  What would you guys like to see us try out?  We can do games, competitions and other activities to keep the 30 Rock community going.  We’re working on coming up with fun things but if you have any suggestions we’d be happy to hear them.  Drop a comment or send us an email!  Remember  you can follow us on Twitter to receive 30 Rock news: PCB’s Twiiter.

New York Magazine interviewed 15 show runners as part of their coverage for the network up fronts.  One of the show runners they featured was Robert Carlock.  Check here to read his hilarious interview about his career, his job and of course working on and writing 30 Rock.  Also they asked all 15 some questions see the responses.  For the record, Robert, I agree with you on brunch!

30 Rock is all new at 10:30 Eastern/Pacific and 9:30 Central!  The time was pushed back a half hour due to an extended Office episode as Michael Scott leaves The Office.  30 Rock moved out of the way so check your DVRs, (Or better  yet watch it live!  I mean what else are you doing at 10:30?  Sleeping?  Watching The Mentalist?)  It’s Friday tomorrow so stay up late tonight and catch 30 Rock!  And tell your friends to do the same!  10:30!!

Sorry for the down time… We were being moved to a different server.  Hopefully this is all fixed and we’ll be going full speed ahead… Up next: “Everything Sunny All the Time Always” photos.

Here’s the commercial spot NBC is airing for this Thursday.

I like how it fails to mention 30 Rock is 1 HOUR!!!

EDIT: 11/17 – Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond will be at 30 Rock Saturday November 20th to sign copies of the soundtrack!

Finally the 30 Rock soundtrack is out today!!  It features the music of the brilliant Jeff Richmond plus recordings by many of the cast.  You can go here to the Amazon page and  preview all the tracks.

2 minute version of Muffin Top?!   Yes please.