NBC, in the middle of a complete revamp after being acquired by Comcast, has named Jennifer Salke president of NBC Entertainment. She will "oversee all aspects of prime-time and daytime programming, including comedy and drama development," according to the L.A. Times

As a longtime executive at 20th Century Fox Television, Salke helped develop "Glee" and "Modern Family." Read the whole story...

To promote the off-network run of CBS' "The Big Bang Theory," which starts Sept. 18 nationally over TBS and locally via Fox-owned and other stations, Warner Bros. has released a new two-minute music video of the show's theme song by the Barenaked Ladies.

Featuring the show's cast members as well as the band, the video -- titled "5 Nights a Week," will also serve as an extra on a fourth season DVD out on Sept. 13. A full-length version of the song is promised for a new Barenaked Ladies greatest hits album. Read the whole story...

Newspapers offering their own daily deals could help save the industry, writes blogger Ilya Vedrashko, whose day job is doing R&D at ad agency Hill Holliday.

Vedrashko notes that newspapers already have two things coveted by other Groupon wanna-bes: local audiences and local sales relationships.

  We also learn -- in the very first sentence -- that the daily deals business is big enough to have spawned its own trade publication! Read the whole story...

Why wasn't "Friday Night Lights" a ratings hit? "The moment that critics from New York to L.A. loved the show, I knew we were doomed," says Brad Leland (who plays Buddy Garrity), somewhat tongue in cheek, as quoted in this oral history of the series.

More likely, the show's relative failure (it survived, just barely, for two seasons on NBC, with three more seasons of a DirecTV/NBC run that will end tonight) had to do with scheduling flubs and misguided marketing that made potential viewers think it was just about football -- as others note in this post.

(For the record, we neither enjoy nor fully understand football, but were attracted by those critics' raves, and quickly became hooked on a story that's "about community and family and the way people interact with each other," as Connie Britton (the beloved Tami Taylor) says here.)

Check out this post before you watch the last episode ever tonight -- but avoid the last section, presumably where the spoilers are. (Thanks to a commenter on New York magazine's Vulture for warning us away.) Read the whole story...