Alec Baldwin: '30 Rock' Ends Next Year

By Sarah Crow Posted Apr 6th 2011 10:20AM

Say farewell to page jackets and EGOTs -- '30 Rock' is ending its run after next season.

Alec Baldwin, who plays Kabletown head honcho Jack Donaghy on the highly acclaimed NBC show, divulged that the Tina Fey brainchild will end its run in 2012.

At the National Dance Institute's fund-raising Gala in New York City last night, the actor confessed, "I will tell you one thing, and that is our show next year is our last year of the show."

While the unique brand of humor favored by Fey has been recognized by fans and critics alike (the show has won an impressive collection of Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody awards), its rise to prime-time prominence hasn't been without obstacles.

In the first year of production, there were 140 prime-time shows commanding a larger audience than '30 Rock.'

More recently, the show has had to dramatically alter plotlines to make up for star Tracy Morgan's absence from the set after a life-saving kidney transplant.

Despite putting her heart and soul into the show, Fey has a remarkably positive attitude about when '30 Rock' comes to an end.

"I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on planet earth. And I'm okay with that," she says. "Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?"

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Wednesday 06 April

By LibNOT

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Had NO idea the show was still On, Thanks Alix for reminding me NOT to watch.

By jortex

The show was just not very good, and you ad the "liberal" touch and it will fail. Peolple are tired of you Liberals making everything political and don't forget the Palin crowd. They are not bwatching!

By Bonbon

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Never would watch that show with that pig tina fey anyway, so good glad it's going!

By john

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Damn good show....Funny writing and never pretends to be anything but silly fun....It will be missed....one of the very few hits for NBC! Now what will NBC do? Make Tina Fey Chairperson of the board?

By Mike

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This is one of the greatest shows ever written and acted. I think it's a little ahead of it's time, like Arrested Development was, to really be appreciated. I think it's also too intelligent of a show for the average person. Morgan, Fey, and Baldwin have set a new standard for television.

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