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The Good And Goofy 'Great News' Comes To NBC

A new NBC comedy has a lot of 30 Rock DNA, and it shows. While it's uneven at first, viewers who stick with it will get a satisfying blast of very silly jokes.
Briga Heelan plays Katie, a news producer whose mother barges in on her already chaotic workplace.

The first thing you may notice about , a comedy premiering Tuesday night on NBC, is its similarities to . Here, a news producer named Katie (Briga Heelan) has her work life disrupted when her boss (Adam Campbell) hires her loving but overbearing mom (the great Andrea Martin, late of and truckloads of comedy since then)

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