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30 ROCK Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey
Nicole Rivelli

30 ROCK
APRIL 10 · 8:30 PM · NBC
EPISODES LEFT: 5

WHERE WE LEFT OFF: Liz (Tina Fey) tried to buy an apartment, Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) became addicted to caffeine — thanks to a cappuccino machine from Tracy (Tracy Morgan) — and Jack (Alec Baldwin) and his liberal love C.C. (Edie Falco) broke up.

UP NEXT: Don't look for art to imitate life with the onscreen writers of 30 Rock's show-within-a-show going on strike. ''Audiences didn't find the strike that entertaining to begin with,'' says Rock's creator/star Fey, ''so to try to keep it going seemed like a drag.'' Instead, Jack and rival Devon (Will Arnett) will renew their battle to become the successor to CEO Don Geiss (Rip Torn). Devon's wedding to Geiss' daughter Kathy is ''increasingly imminent,'' explains Fey, but we probably won't see the wedding: ''His bachelor party is in an episode. We're trying to save the money — weddings are superexpensive.'' And Liz will reconnect with two exes. First, Dennis (Dean Winters) the beeper salesman ''redeems himself by being a subway hero.'' Then Floyd (Jason Sudeikis), who fled to Ohio last season, makes a return: ''The idea is that in the age of global warming there is an April blizzard and Floyd is on a business trip [in New York],'' says Fey. ''He calls Liz to ask, 'Can I stay with you?''' Oh, and did we mention Liz will have a pregnancy scare? Sooooo, whose maybe-baby is it, Tina? ''That's a cliff-hanger!'' —Ari Karpel