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Kabletown lives! Tina Fey says 30 Rock will continue to stick it to Comcast

POSTED: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 9:45 PM

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Aw, remember last TV season when Comcast bought NBC and everyone in Philly media who gets excited about these things shit our pants in anticipation of Tina Fey and co. taking on the cable Philadelphia behemoth on the excellent-but-declining-in-quality 30 Rock? And how we might as well have spontaneously combusted when Kabletown, Comcast's stand-in, was finally mentioned? While it seems so long ago, it is time to get excited once more. Deadline.com reports that Fey and co-showrunner Robert Carlock have some new Kabletown shenanigans in the works.

DH: Are you building in a lot of Comcast stuff into your 30 Rock scripts for next season with the impending NBC sale? RC: We're incorporating a fictionalized version of that. There are a couple of things we've got in the works. TF: We'll show the new bosses, new rules, new work pressures.

Everyone's all jazzed about the 30 Rock live episode (which is, frankly, a terrible idea. Anyone remember the ER disaster?), but what about an on-location in Philly ep? Kenneth, we're waiting for your call. Read the description of Kabletown from their website after the jump. RELATED >> INTERVIEW with 30 Rock's Scott Adsit: "So now in bars across the world, you can spend 50 cents and hear Liz Lemon and Pete Hornberger yelling at you to 'shoot it up the ramp!'" RELATED >> 30 Rock takes on the Comcast buy-out

Why Kabletown with a K? Because K stands for the Kindness we show our customers, the Keen interest we take in their needs and because Cabletown with a C was already the name of a store that sold cable knit sweaters and legal said we had to spell it with a K. We pride ourselves on being one of the nation's leading providers of cable entertainment. We currently have over 100,000 employees nationwide and 6 international employees due to a flight mix-up we are still trying to resolve. At Kabletown, we respond rapidly to the speed of change. We have a team of well-trained technicians eager to assist our customers. For example, if your "box is being weird" or "the thing just keeps saying 'boot'" or "the DVR won't stop recording 'Top Chef Masters' even though I hate it," we will be there. We know you have a choice when it comes to your cable provider. Let Kabletown bring entertainment to you, because you bring entertainment to Kabletown. Maybe this slogan doesn't make a lot of sense, but consider that our slogan guy, Gary, was in the hospital when he came up with it.

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