-Brian Williams' primetime newsmagazine is a go for midseason. Greenblatt described it as "fresh, relevant and enteraining."

http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/nbcs-contingency-plans-in-case-of-nfl-strike-trump-presidential-run-reality-on-sunday-recasting-donald-on-apprentice/#more-132218

...Tom Brokaw (the anchor of "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" at that time) was given a prime-time magazine series during 1991?

That was when Brandon Tartikoff was still programming NBC's prime-time schedule...but he had an "aversion" to scheduling "straight" newsmagazine shows, because they "interferred" with his highly successful entertainment schedule. In early 1991, however, he decided to program two half-hour "magazine" shows, back-to-back, on Sundays from 8-9pm(et). However, he convinced NBC News to make them look less like "traditional" newsmagazines {as "60 MINUTES" and "20/20" were}, and more like his "entertainment" series. Hence, "REAL LIFE WITH JANE PAULEY" [a half-hour version of her hour-long "soft feature" series from the summer of 1990], and "EXPOSE" [true stories of scams, cons, and the like, with Tom Brokaw anchoring from what looked like a "hard-boiled private eye's office"], filled that hour...and both were gone that summer.

It wasn't until after Tartikoff left NBC that a real newsmagazine, "DATELINE: NBC", premiered in 1992. These days, however, it's mostly a "true crime expose" anthology. So does that mean Brian Williams' upcoming newsmagazine is actually going to be one?


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