Tina Fey and Ted Danson's new NBC show was initially a 30 Rock spin-off

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A month ago, we reported on an upcoming NBC project from 30 Rock masterminds Tina Fey and Robert Carlock that will star Ted Danson as a rich guy who becomes mayor of Los Angeles “for all the wrong reasons” and then has to figure out how to do a good job while reconnecting with his teenage daughter. This seems kind of obvious retrospect, but The Hollywood Reporter now says that the project began life as a sequel to/spin-off of 30 Rock, with Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy being the rich guy who gets elected mayor for all the wrong reasons—though it would’ve taken place in New York and Tracy Morgan would’ve been the teenage daughter (we assume).