Ms. Carolyn Cassidy This is Me

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1. 1. The Harvard Crimson Online :: Arts

   www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/art - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/15/2005   Last Visited: 4/15/2005

   “It feels like a different type of sitcom,” says NBC Director of Current Programming Carolyn Cassidy â€99, the network executive in charge of the show. “Itâ€s different from the muliti-camera sitcom, the old cliche of fat-husband-and-skinny-wife show.”
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   “It wouldnâ€t have come out well if there had been a big divergence between what the network wanted and what we wanted,” Daniels said. “The fact that people at the network like Kevin Reilly and Carolyn and [NBC President] Jeff Zucker [â€86, and a former Crimson president] were interested in doing a faithful version of this is the reason itâ€s on the air.”
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   The way Carolyn Cassidy describes her jobâ€"“Iâ€m responsible for managing the networkâ€s interests”â€"sounds suspiciously like a censor. But she and other crew members insist creative differences were kept to a minimum. “There has not been any content that has been too risqué for the network,” Cassidy says.
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   “When the character says something thatâ€s outrageous, you have to have another character to refute it or make a joke out of it,” Cassidy says, explaining how the ethnic jokes make it past the censors. “Itâ€s so clear when Michaelâ€s behavior is inappropriate. We actually didnâ€t have any standards problems with that.”
   
   Cassidy, the daughter of a local television producer, cut her teeth in the entertainment biz at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, where she co-produced “I Get No Kick From Campaign,” the troupeâ€s 1999 musical production.
   
   “The Pudding was four years of practice for this job,” she says.
   
   She moved out to Los Angeles right after graduation, finding low-level assistant work at CBS. But she soon jumped ship to the Peacock network, where she was promoted to an executive three years ago.
   
   Cassidy is now a director of current series, a position that makes her privy to what NBC is planning next. She says the Peacockâ€"which suffered the most from the demise of the sitcom, losing heavy-hitters like “Friends” and “Frasier”â€"may be heading toward the new style of comedy heralded by “The Office.”
   
   “We are encouraged to produce more television shows like [“The Office”], that have awkward pauses and have edgy humor,” Cassidy says, citing “Malcolm in the Middle” and “Scrubs” as precursors to the current crop of Peacock offerings. “Frankly about half of the shows we have in development now are single-camera.”

2. 2. Electronic Media Online -- Daily Television and Media News

   www.emonline.com/news/web08200 - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/23/2001   Last Visited: 8/24/2002

   NBC promotes three: NBC has promoted Jill Underhill to VP of current series programs and Carolyn Cassidy and Lauren Stein to managers of current series.
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   Ms. Cassidy, who started at NBC in May 2000 as a coordinator of prime-time series, will oversee the production of the freshman fall comedy "Good Morning Miami" in addition to working on the returning dramas "Ed" and "Providence."

3. 3. TelevisionWeek -- Advertising News from Television and New Media

   www.tvweek.com/whois/032204new - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/22/2004   Last Visited: 5/19/2004

   Carolyn Cassidy to director, current series, NBC Entertainment, from manager, current series.