Great News

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 25, 2017
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
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Critic Reviews

  1. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Jon Negroni
    Apr 25, 2017
    60
    Once the show discovers what it really has in its holster (a biting rivalry between Chuck and Nicole Richie’s Portia, for example), it finds its comedic stride with some truly inspired writing. Sadly, though, it never quite rises up to the levels of original insanity it learned from its predecessors or manages to surpasses them.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Apr 25, 2017
    60
    Yet if Great News is mostly what one might call theoretically funny, it is certainly not unwatchable. It has its untaxing pleasures. It would not be a stretch to call it amusing.
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Apr 24, 2017
    50
    The cast combines for a few laughs each week, and outside of the stray fart or feces joke, little of it is bad enough to make you cringe. But goodness, this is Andrea Martin we’re talking about. Surely some network can find something better for her than "not terrible."
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Apr 24, 2017
    50
    This is an uneven show--a lot of sharp jokes jumbled with dumb ones. You will not feel smarter or hipper for having watched it. Sample it only if you’re in the mood for mindlessness.
  6. Sioux City Journal
    Reviewed by: Bruce Miller
    Apr 24, 2017
    50
    It’s just another sitcom set at a television show.
  7. Collider
    Reviewed by: Chris Cabin
    Apr 25, 2017
    40
    The show is overtly loopy and severely lacking in personality.
  8. Los Angeles Daily News
    Reviewed by: Rob Lowman
    Apr 25, 2017
    40
    There are few funny moments. Give the cast credit for throwing themselves into it--especially Martin--but the proud mama bit gets old fast.

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#57 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 4 out of 25
  1. looper64
    May 6, 2017
    0
    This show is just not that funny? Tina Fey who is usually brilliant lacks any ambition here.
    The shows joke premis about Andrea Martin as a    This show is just not that funny? Tina Fey who is usually brilliant lacks any ambition here.
    The shows joke premis about Andrea Martin as a meddling, overprotective mother is just tired after the first episode. This show needs so much help...If it were being written by anyone else it would have been cancelled after the 2nd episode. Tina please find something to save this...This is no 30 rock!    … Full Review »
  2. drlowdon
    Dec 2, 2018
    7
    Great News centres around Katie Wendelson, an ambitious young producer at a cable news show called The Breakdown. The fact that it was createdGreat News centres around Katie Wendelson, an ambitious young producer at a cable news show called The Breakdown. The fact that it was created by Tracey Wigfield and executively produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, all of whom worked on the excellent 30 Rock, was certainly sufficient to peak my interest.

    Great News finds its rythym fairly quickly in this first season with exactly the type of eclectic cast of characters you’d expect from former 30 Rock alumni. Admittedly none of these characters are quite as memorable as said shows cast, and the mother can be a little too much at times, but each of them brings something to the table. In terms of the script it can sometimes feel as though it’s trying a little too hard to ape the 30 Rock formula, making it feel a little forced at times, but in most episodes enough of the jokes land to keep the laughs flowing.

    A solid start with hopefully more to come.    … Full Review »
  3. manningn15
    Nov 26, 2018
    8
    A great new comedy with a hilarious cast and very funny writing that makes me laugh.
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