Studio 30 (season 2)

The second season begins with difficulties in the TGS team after the return of Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) and other members of the crew after the summer break. The disagreement between Jack ( Alec Baldwin ) and Jerry Seinfeld regarding Jack’s plans to insert frames from the Seinfeld series into the broadcasting network of the TV channel becomes an urgent problem.

In the second season, in many ways similar to the first, there were a variety of storylines, including the struggle of Jenna Maroni ( Jane Krakowski ) with the excess weight that she had after participating in the Broadway musical " Mystical Pizza : The Musical." Another storyline tells about the relationship of conservative Jack with a female congressman from the Democratic Party Celeste Cunningham ( Edie Falco ). Liz tries to recover from an unsuccessful attempt at reconciliation with Floyd, while Tracy ( Tracy Morgan ) tries to cope with her emotions after a failed wedding with Angie Jordan ( Sherry Shepherd ). Later, Tracy makes an attempt to complete the creation of his masterpiece of invention - a pornographic game.

As the plot develops, a rivalry arises between Jack and Devon Banks ( Will Arnett ) for the position of chairman of GE . Before Jack is announced as his successor, current chairman Don Geiss ( Rip Thorne ) falls into a diabetic coma . Taking advantage of a combination of circumstances, Devon promotes his bride and daughter Geiss Katie (Marceline Hugo) to the chair, to later manipulate her.

, Little Stranger, and NBC Universal participated in the creation of Studio 30, and for the first time the series was shown on NBC in the United States . Executive producers were the creator of the idea, Tina Fey , as well as , , , and , and Jack Birdt and co-executive producers . The producers of the season were composer , and , and co-producers Diane Schmidt, Margot A. Myers, and ^[16] .

During the season, six people became directors. The directors of more than one episode are Don Scardino ^{[17] [18]} , and ^[19] . The directors of only one episode during the season were , and Gail Mancuso . Screenwriting was done by Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Matt Hubbard, Jack Birdt, and John Riggy, each of whom was involved in scripting for at least two episodes. Only one episode was written by , , , , Donald Glover, and ^{[20] [21]} .

In July 2007, Tina Fey in an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News told about some changes in the script for the second season ^[22] .

In connection with the strike of the Screenwriters Guild , which took place from November 5, 2007 to February 12, 2008, a break was made in the series ^{[23] [24]} . Show runners of the season Fay and Carlock found it necessary to take full responsibility in the strike themselves, without asking other screenwriters ^[25] . As a result, of the 22 planned episodes, only 15 were released ^{[26] [27]} .

The main cast of the second season included ten people. Tina Fey played the role of Liz Lemon, the main screenwriter of the fictional sketch show “TGS”, aired on NBC ^[28] . The cast of “TGS” consisted of three main characters. The main character was the unsuccessful cocky actor Tracy Jordan, played by Tracy Morgan ^[28] . Others became a stupid, but hungry for fame, Jenna Maroni, whose role was played by Jane Krakowski ^[29] . Screenwriter Josh Girard was played by ^[16] The role of a simple-minded employee of the channel Kenneth Parsell played ^{[30] [31] [32]} . The role of the wise TGS producer Pete Hornberger was played by ^{33] [34]} , and Jude Friedlander played the energetic and constantly wearing baseball cap odious screenwriter Frank Rossitano ^[35] . The head of the NBC television channel Jack Donagy portrayed Alec Baldwin ^[36] . Tuffer Sperlock, a Harvard graduate and screenwriter for the show, was played by ^[16] Katrina Bowden played the role of screenwriter assistant Keri Xerox ^[16] .

Also in the series were recurring characters, including Jonathan ( ) ^[37] , Grizz Griswold ( ) ^[38] , “Point com” Slatteri ( Kevin Brown ) ^[39] , J. D. Lutz ( ) ^[40] and Dr. Leo Spaceman ( Chris Parnell ) ^[41] .

Criticism Reviews

In his second season review, IGN 's Robert Cunning called him “intelligent, witty, and fun from start to finish.” He also praised the actors who performed guest roles ^[42] . As for the main cast, Canning wrote that "it seemed as if the mastery of all the main actors had grown in the second season." The reviewer especially noted the play of Tina Fey, playing the role of Liz Lemon, calling her "the soul of the series." Canning rated the season 8.9 out of 10 ^[43] . BuddyTV ’s John Kubitschek noted that the series “learned from its past mistakes and now knows what can work and what never works.” Kubitschek praised the game of the main cast, but noted that the game of secondary actors needs to be finalized. The reviewer paid tribute to the acting interaction of Tracy and Kenneth and Jenna's storyline, but called actress Krakowski the weakest link in the series ^[44] . The journalist of the British newspaper Alistair Harkness, called the series “ridiculous and insane” and wrote that “the personality of each character is revealed to the fullest, this has not happened since the heyday of Seinfeld .” Harkness wrote that the script is polished and the jokes are great, and that the series has “a huge amount of dialogue worthy of citation.” The reviewer noted that “in the season, it is really pleasing that the main cast supports comedy” ^[45] .

Rating

The premiere series of the season “SeinfeldVision” was watched by 7.33 million viewers, which put it in third place among the programs running at 8:30 pm EST ^[46] . On December 13, 2007, an episode of “Episode 209” (“Ludachristmas”), shown at 9:00 p.m., was watched by 5.6 million people ^[47] . After the series returned to its previous time, at 8:30 pm, on January 10, 2008, the episode "Episode 210" was watched by 6 million viewers ^[48] . Then, from April 24, 2008, the show’s time was postponed to 9:30 pm, immediately after the series “ Office ” ^[49] . The first episode of Succession, shown in modern times, attracted the attention of 5.52 million viewers ^[50] . The following week, the Sandwich Day episode was aired, which was watched by the lowest number of viewers - 5.4 million people ^[51] . The final episode of the Cooter season, aired on May 8, 2008, was seen by 5.6 million viewers ^[52] . The average number of viewers who watched the second season was 6.4 million people ^{[53] [54]} .

Awards and nominations

For the performance of the role of Liz Lemon, Tina Fey received the Golden Globe in the nomination " Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical " ^[55] . She and Alec Baldwin also won the United States Film Actors Guild Award in the nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Series , respectively ^[56] . The season received the Screenwriters Guild Award in the Best Comedy Series nomination ^[57] and the Danny Thomas Prize of the Year to the producer of the comedy series from the US Producers Guild ^[58] . The second season of Studio 30 was nominated for an Emmy in seventeen categories, becoming the second most nominated challenger in the year ^{[59] [60]} . Also, these 17 nominations gave Studio 30 a record for the number of nominations among comedy series ^[61] . Studio 30 won the Television Critics Association award in the nomination “For Outstanding Achievements in Comedy” ^[62] . The season also received the Peabody Award ^[63] .