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NBC is delaying the scheduled March return of Jerry Seinfeld’s The Marriage Ref, which had been set to air Sundays at eight this spring. Instead, new reality competition America’s Next Great Restaurant will air in that slot starting March 6.

Source: NY Mag

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Issue: Ventrilo-quest
We meet Jim and Lynda, a couple who met in junior high and has been in love ever since. The one thing getting in the way of their marriage are Jim’s little friends. I get creeped out by one dummy, imagine a whole house full of them! They are literally EVERYWHERE. He even has an alien ventriloquist doll wearing a NASA suit. Kirstie and Sheryl both think Jim should get a dollhouse for the dummies. Now they get their own house? Give me a break!

Issue: To Dye For
Mit and Stacey Drewer have been married for six years. Mit’s a real estate agent that wants to be the newest celebrity chef on the Food Network. In order to boost his future ratings, Mit decides the best thing to do is to dye his hair platinum blonde. Guy Fieri look-a-like, possibly? Meanwhile, his wife Stacey attempts to make her argument while drinking out of a wine glass the size of the punch bowl. Her vote should be null if she’s drinking out of that thing 24/7.

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Despite personal sentiments to the contrary, Alec Baldwin has to vote on the side of practicality.

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Mr. Seinfeld spoke with The New York Times about “The Marriage Ref” , here are some of the highlights:
Q.
You’ve just started taping the earliest episodes of your first new television series in more than a decade. How does it feel so far?

A.
That aspect of television is a lot of fun for me. We think of something, and then a week later it’s in front of an audience. There’s a complexity in solving the basic problem of “What is this show?” But having solved that, there’s a simplicity now to doing it that I’m really enjoying. My body was like “You’re making another television show?” All those sensations of doing it from 12 years ago and the previous nine come back. But because it’s all in such a different way, it’s fun.

Q.
You weren’t necessarily angling to get back onto television, but you got swept up in the idea for “The Marriage Ref”?

A.
Yeah. If an idea’s good, you become its servant. If you’re pushing it, working it, fixing it, whipping it like a racehorse that’s going too slow, it’s probably not that good an idea. A good idea has a — what’s the word? — a draft suction, that you get pulled into it. It took years for the American public to get into our universe when I did “Seinfeld.” It was like “Oh, now I understand what they’re doing.” This has none of those aspects. This universe is known already. There’s still a strong flavor of misanthropy here, that you will not mistake. Even in this most important institution, this most romantic subject, you’ll feel the flavor.

Q.
Who are some of the people you’re planning to have as celebrity panelists?

A.
Of course my pal Larry David. Matthew Broderick. Alec Baldwin was my No. 1 get, because to me, he’s just such a funny thinker. Last night, there was this issue, and Kelly Ripa had to decide, whose side are you on? You’ve seen her on talk shows, you can watch her every day on her show. You’re not going to see her face a dilemma like this and watch her sort it out. So you learn a little bit about her. It’s interesting.

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Alec Baldwin already created a phrase that will stay with us forever in The Marriage Ref.