Fey feels ready for prime time on '30 Rock'

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2006 | by Donna Freydkin

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. -- Tina Fey has moved from 30 Rock to 30 Rock. The former Saturday Night Live head writer, who spent nine years at the late-night show's Rockefeller Center headquarters, is writing and starring in her own sitcom, 30 Rock, which makes its debut Wednesday (8 p.m. ET/PT) on NBC.

Fey, 36, quit her SNL writing and Weekend Update co-hosting gigs to make her foray into prime time. "Originally, I thought I'd stay and do Update. If I didn't have my daughter (Alice, 1), I might have been foolish enough to attempt that," she says. "But it seemed like it was organically time to be done with SNL." But she couldn't totally leave the experience behind; the new show is loosely based on her old job. Fey plays Liz Lemon, a writer on the late-night variety series The...