Brandon Tartikoff
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Sep 11, 2026
Joe LawrenceHOST
People were like, nobody watched it.
Joe LawrenceHOST
Brandon Tartikoff, who I got to know very well because he was at NBC running it when I was a little kid, and he discovered me and put Matt on the network, put Andy on the network.
Joe LawrenceHOST
I
Matt LawrenceHOST
remember his face very, very well.
Joe LawrenceHOST
It's about how to grow business.
Joe LawrenceHOST
And I get that.
Joe LawrenceHOST
But people like Brandon Tartikoff had both.
Joe LawrenceHOST
He understood the business, knew how to grow the network, made and took NBC from from last place to first place.
Tatyana AliGUEST
And I was sitting at the table and I was really nervous and there was network everywhere.
Tatyana AliGUEST
Brandon Tartikoff was there.
Tatyana AliGUEST
Very kind man.
Tatyana AliGUEST
He was really tall.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Like, just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Um, and people liked the show the first couple years, and Brandon Tartikoff ran NBC, to his credit.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
He's one of these people, Warren Littlefield as well, uh, and NBC said, "Well, we gotta find a place for this show.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
We gotta find a home for this show." Well, The Cosby Show comes in, becomes an instant phenomenon.
Rachel OaksHOST
It's Saved by the Bell, where Eminem turns to the camera and says, Ladies and gentlemen,
Michael CassellHOST
Brandon Tartikoff.
Rachel OaksHOST
Brandon Tarnikoff is the Eminem of...
Rachel OaksHOST
Eminem turns and says, hey, we've had a lot of fun in this song.
Rachel OaksHOST
... where Eminem turns to the camera and says-
Michael CassellHOST
Ladies and gentlemen, Brandon Tartikoff.
Dan McInerneyHOST
[laughs] Yes.
Rachel OaksHOST
[laughs]
Dan McInerneyHOST
Eminem...
Dan McInerneyHOST
Brandon Tartikoff is the Eminem-
Rachel OaksHOST
Yes [laughs]
Dan McInerneyHOST
... of Saved by the Bell.
Jay GagsHOST
So that was an NBC show.
Jay GagsHOST
Brandon Tartikoff is the guy who was like the main guy behind this whole thing actually had a teacher named Ms. Bliss.
Jay GagsHOST
It was his old like history teacher in eighth grade.
Jay GagsHOST
So they take that character, Ms. Bliss.
Rob LoweHOST
Right.
Ted DansonGUEST
Would they have canceled it if they had something better to replace it with? They might have, according to Brandon Tartikoff.
Ted DansonGUEST
Saw Lily last night.
Rob LoweHOST
Oh, love that woman.
AlexHOST
By the early 80s, NBC was a laughingstock, stuck in third place.
AlexHOST
But then General Electric bought them back in 1986, and a legendary executive named Brandon Tartikoff took over programming.
AlexHOST
He had a simple strategy.
AlexHOST
Must see TV.
Alan KatzHOST
... apparently before this happens, Wes Craven has a meeting on the books.
Alan KatzHOST
Uh, he's gonna have lunch with Brandon Tartikoff, who at that point-
John HarrisonGUEST
Mm-hmm
Alan KatzHOST
... was, was running NBC.
John HarrisonGUEST
Right.
Alan KatzHOST
And the morning of the, the, the lunch that he's gonna have with Brandon Tartikoff, Wes Craven is sitting there with his wife and son, his teenage son, saying, "Ah, I'm having lunch with Brandon today.
Alan KatzHOST
I have no idea what I'm gonna pitch him today." And the son, the teenage son-
John HarrisonGUEST
Jonathan
Jeremy DoveHOST
seeing what was going on.
Jeremy DoveHOST
Uh, Brandon Tartikoff had called him in who was president of the network and was a Yale.
Jeremy DoveHOST
They were both went to Yale together.
Jeremy DoveHOST
So they were friends and was pretty much calling him in to try to like, see what's wrong with the show.
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