INTERVIEW

At first, Fred Graver‘s Wikipedia page looks like it’s a joke, just because it’s so awesome: writer for Late Night With David Letterman, Cheers, and In Living Color, co-Editor in Chief of National Lampoon, creator of VH1′s Best Week Ever, author of a Choose Your Own Adventure book, and owner of an email address that dates back to 1985.

Nikki Finke is reporting that Lauren Zalaznick, the President of NBC Universal’s Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks, is in “advanced talks” to take over as MTV President of Entertainment, a job recently vacated by departing Brian Graden. If true, why would she leave the string of successes at Bravo to go to the flailing catastrophe that is now MTV Networks? Perhaps because, right now, Bravo couldn’t get be any hotter, and MTV is nearly at rock bottom. A perfect opportunity to add to Zalaznick’s nearly legendary track record.