{"id":6660,"date":"2008-10-15T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buyingabeerfor.draftmag.com\/2008\/10\/15\/were-buying-a-beer-for-ben-silverman\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:57:20","slug":"draft-magazine-feed-we%e2%80%99re-buying-a-beer-for%e2%80%a6-ben-silverman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/?p=6660","title":{"rendered":"Draft Magazine Feed: We\u2019re buying a beer for\u2026 Ben Silverman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buyingabeerfor.draftmag.com\/files\/2008\/10\/silverman101508.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/buyingabeerfor.draftmag.com\/files\/2008\/10\/silverman101508.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Last May, NBC hired the golden boy, responsible for hits such as The Office and Ugly Betty, to be co-chair its Entertainment and Universal TV divisions. He was responsible for dragging the formerly unstoppable network &#8212; remember the golden days of Friends and Seinfeld on Must See TV Thursday &#8212; out of fourth place. So far, Silverman has underwhelmed, missing the mark with Knight Rider and a host of other expensive shows. He has, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com\/major-nbc-shakeup-ahead-network-wants-to-ax-teri-weinberg-hopes-ben-silverman-quits\/\">partied<\/a> his way through the TV world, enough to put his job in jeopardy. <\/p>\n<p>Given that, perhaps the last thing he needs is a beer. But Ben, buddy, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise us if you were out of a job soon, no matter what NBC prez Jeff Zucker says. Money talks, and you&#8217;re losing it hand over fist. (Also, you brought those infernal chimes back to NBC. Bad move.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?a=kehxM\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?i=kehxM\" \/><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?a=P4OXM\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?i=P4OXM\" \/><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?a=KJxrm\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?i=KJxrm\" \/><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?a=K1xtM\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/DraftMagazineFeed?i=K1xtM\" \/><\/img><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?sub=postcosm&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbuyingabeerfor.draftmag.com%2F2008%2F10%2F15%2Fwere-buying-a-beer-for-ben-silverman%2F\" title=\"other blogs commenting on this post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/images\/bubble.gif\" alt=\"Technorati talk bubble\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\tLast May, NBC hired the golden boy, responsible for hits such as The Office and Ugly Betty, to be co-chair its Entertainment and Universal TV divisions. He was responsible for dragging the formerly unstoppable network &#8212; remember the golden days &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}