30 Rock (7,00C, NBC, Wednesday)
Can be funny. It can also be trying. It takes a while to get to its point, but when it gets there, it can be funny. What it really reminds me of, and while I hate comparing shows to Arrested Development because it gets done WAY too much, particularly with shows that aren't particularly trying to be AD-esque, but, really, this show's asking for it. It's got a cast of crazy people who make life hard for the responsible, sane one (Liz Lemon, played by Tina Fey, who just, really, I love. Lemon's the producer of "The Girlie Show," a sketch comedy show that's just had crazy movie star Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) added to the cast.)
So, they make her life hard, but aren't really funny doing it. Alec Baldwin, as her new boss, is pretty funny, at times, and Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan is HILARIOUS--"See, it's messed up that Entertainment Weekly said I was on crack. I'm not on crack, I'm straight up mentall ill!" and "Affirmative action is just a plot to keep women and minorities in competition with each other, Lemon, while the white man puts AIDS in our chicken nuggets!"--long pause--"That's a joke."--and the stories the other characters tell about him are funny, too.
But Jane Krakowski is not funny. None of the writers, particularly Two-fer and the one played by my arch-entertainment-nemesis, Judah Friedlander, is funny either. So far, the first half of each show has been utter shit and the back half has been funny enough to justify the first half. But once they get over the novelty-phase, this show is DOA.
Grade: C+

20 Good Years (7,30, NBC, Wednesday)
20 Good Years = (The Odd Couple + 15 years) - funniness + Heather Burns + (utter scenery chewing from John Lithghow - humor)
It's painful. Grade: F