What you should expect From John Williams' 'Rock Center'

This story first came out inside the March. 21 problem in the Hollywood Reporter.our editor recommendsBrian Williams' Newsmagazine being Referred to as 'Rock Center'Brian Williams Talks Politics, Occupy Wall Street on 'Late Show' (Video)John Williams' NBC Nightly News Causes Brawl In May, when NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt spoke in regards to the network's new newsmagazine introduced by John Williams -- the Nightly News anchor, wry talk show customer and repeat guest star on Tina Fey's 30 Rock -- he recommended that Williams' comedy side would participate the show. However, if Rock Center premieres March. 31 inside the 10 p.m. Monday slot vacated by quickly canceled drama The Playboy Club, executive producer Rome Hartman cautions that Williams will not be pointing Jon Stewart. "John comes with an excellent wit together with a spontaneity," Hartman notifies THR, "but this is not a comedy show." PHOTOS: Most likely Probably The Most Spoken-About TV News Faces Rock Center covers news and human-interest tales while remaining from sister show Dateline's true crime genre. NBC News personnel including medical editor Nancy Snyderman and chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel will lead their agendas allow, but Kate Snow and Harry Cruz could possibly get top billing alongside Williams. (Former Today co-host Meredith Vieira will not show up on this program through the initial couple of several days because of previous obligations.) NBC News has produced an assortment that affiliates call an elegant guy cave getting phone Manhattan skyline and multiple anchor stations -- including one getting a settee. Rock Centeris the initial broadcast newsmagazine launch in recent memory and extended past the heyday in the format when such programs made news with major "can getInch and commanded prime primetime property from network entertainment divisions. Nowadays, most regularly scheduled newsmagazines are shunted to weekend several hours and many of them are employed to fill holes inside the schedule. PHOTOS:10 Tv Shows Canceled Faster Than 'The Playboy Club' But Hartman notes that Rock Center has introduced a "tremendous commitment" from network professionals."From [NBC Universal Boss] Steve Burke to [NBC News leader] Steve Capus to John Williams and also on lower, there's dedication the program will most likely get every chance to be successful.In . Certainly the price for Rock Center is substantially within scripted hour newsmagazines typically cost $250,000 to $300,000 to produce (excluding anchor salaries), compared to $3 million per episode for just about any drama series. But you will discover no expects to grow Rock Center to plug additional future programming holes or put it to use just like a money-saving gambit such as the network's aborted 10 p.m. Jay Leno experiment. "One evening each week is enough for people at this time around,Inch states Hartman. "We neither wish to be considered filler nor can we have plans for world domination." Related Subjects John Williams NBC Robert Greenblatt The Playboy Club