Hard though it is now to imagine anyone except Jane Krakowski playing Jenna on 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s fellow SNL cast member Rachel Dratch originally played her in the pilot episode. Having a hard time imagining that? Well, here’s how the show would have looked with Dratch.
Of course, Dratch went on to appear in the show anyway in a number of roles, including this rather good one:
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
