Why Ted Danson replaced Alec Baldwin in Tina Fey's mayor comedy
that the yet-to-be named platform was in talks with star Alec Baldwin to reprise his role as Jack Donaghy, the chairman of General Electric, in a new spinoff series from exec producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock that would have followed the character in his new role as mayor of New York.
Sources say Baldwin was in extended negotiations for the better part of a year before pulling out of the project. Writers and exec producers Fey and Carlock then went out toWhen L.A.-based Danson declined to move to New York for the part, Fey and Carlock reworked the script to set the show on the West Coast — and remove any connections it had to. With the change, the show wound up moving to the streamer with a straight-to-series order.
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