Zucker calls bluff.(NBC Universal Inc. moves Las Vegas television show to friday)(Jeff Zucker)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 2006

When Gary Scott Thompson, creator of NBC's Monday-night drama Las Vegas, urged NBC Universal TV Group CEO Jeff Zucker to take another run at revitalizing Friday prime time, he wasn't volunteering to lead the charge. "I think the networks have sort of forgotten about the night," Thompson says.

"I've been saying to Jeff for three years that Fridays are ripe for the taking. I guess he's going to make me eat my words." But Thompson says he's OK with NBC's moving his show to Fridays. He only hopes the network will promote the new slot, which will lead into the new Dick Wolf drama, Conviction. "If the audience doesn't know, they can't follow," Thompson says. "I'm sure Dick Wolf will remind them. If they put his show on by itself, he would have been...

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