For those that haven’t noticed, NBC hosts a couple of 30 Rock related blogs over on their official site.

Tina Fey ran a blog during the airing of the first season that, much like the show, has gone on hiatus for the summer. However, it is still full of fun information. It also includes some live-blogging that took place during the season’s finale as well as the at the time of the premiere. You can catch up here.

Frank Rossitano also has a blog hosted by NBC, and it is updated fairly regularly. It is there you will learn which Bob’s Big Boy is biggest, what the grossest meal Frank has cooked is, and which TGS behind-the-scenes regular he has the hots for. You can catch a glimpse of Frank’s world here.

Congratulations Tina! Our favorite comedienne has been featured in this year’s Time 100 - a list, compiled by Time Magazine, of “people who shape our world.”

Fey, 36, has a few things in common with Mary Tyler Moore and Marlo Thomas, whose liberated-gal-in-the-city sitcoms the scene spoofs. It’s not just that she’s a funny, good-looking brunet or that 30 Rock may be on the way to becoming a TV classic. Fey is also a rising player in what has been a man’s game. In the ’90s, she became the first female head writer for Saturday Night Live, revitalizing the Weekend Update segment by delivering demurely cutting barbs, then wrote the 2004 movie Mean Girls, a sharply observed comedy about the teen pecking order.

With 30 Rock, which she also writes and produces, Fey combines an insider’s send-up of TV with subtle, self-effacing feminism, as Liz wrangles difficult stars and leads a mostly male writers’ room. Liz is funny but flawed, successful but insecure, political but not infallible—a woman we see a lot in our offices but too little in our pop culture. The show has won over critics, and though it hasn’t yet become a monster hit, NBC was impressed enough to pick it up for next season. Looks like she’s gonna make it after all.

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Variety reports that 30 Rock has been renewed!

NBC’s critically hailed “30 Rock” will roll on to another season.

Peacock has given an early greenlight to the Tina Fey-Alec Baldwin starrer from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. Net’s hoping “Rock” will follow the pattern of other slow-building NBC comedy success stories in years past, including current hit “The Office.”

“I’m seeing so many parallels right now (between ‘30 Rock’ and ‘The Office’),” NBC Entertainment prexy Kevin Reilly told Daily Variety. “I really believe it’s ready to break through.”

Reilly said NBC will continue to air repeats of the show over the summer and plans a major relaunch in fall. At least one major advertiser has already expressed an interest in helping promote the second season premiere, Reilly said.

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