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The third season of 30 Rock, an American television comedy series, began on October 30, 2008 on the NBC network in the United States. 30 Rock is centered around TGS with Tracy Jordan, a fictional sketch comedy series, and its head writer, Liz Lemon portrayed by Tina Fey. The series follows Lemon as she juggles her job and her personal life.

The season is expected to consist of 22 episodes, each of which will be approximately 22 minutes long, excluding commercials. 30 Rock 's timeslot for its third season will be on Thursdays at 9:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. The third season will air under NBC's promotional banner "Comedy Night Done Right".

Crew
This season is produced by Broadway Video, Little Stranger and NBC Universal and airs on NBC, a terrestrial television network in the U.S.. The executive producers are creator Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Marci Klein, David Miner and Robert Carlock with Jack Burditt, John Riggi and Ron Weiner acting as co-executive producers. Producers for the season were Alec Baldwin, Jerry Kupfer and Don Scardino with Diana Schmidt and Irene Burns acting as co-producers.

So far this season, the directors have been Don Scardino and Gail Mancuso. Series writers who have penned episodes so far this season have been Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Jack Burditt and John Riggi.

Cast
This season has a cast of twelve actors who receive star billing. Tina Fey portrays Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictitious live sketch comedy television series named TGS with Tracy Jordan (commonly known as just TGS). The TGS cast consists of two actors. The lead actor is the loose cannon movie star Tracy Jordan, portrayed by Tracy Morgan. The co-star is the dense, limelight-craving Jenna Maroney, portrayed by Jane Krakowski Jack McBrayer plays the naïve Kenneth Parcell. Scott Adsit acts as the witty and wise TGS producer, Pete Hornberger. Judah Friedlander portrays the wise-cracking, trucker hat wearing, repulsive staff writer Frank Rossitano. Alec Baldwin plays the former high flying NBC network executive Jack Donaghy. Keith Powell plays the Harvard University alumnus and TGS staff writer James "Toofer" Spurlock. Katrina Bowden acts as the writers assistant Cerie Xerox. Maulik Pancholy acts as Jack's loyal assistant Jonathan. Grizz Chapman and Kevin Brown, respectivly, play the members of Tracy's "entourage" Grizz Griswold and "Dot Com" Slattery.

Ratings
The season premiere, "Do-over", garnered 8.7 million viewers. This was the highest rated episode of the series.