There are more than a few parallels between NBC's new sitcom Great News and 30 Rock. They're both about hard-working women in the television industry (news for the newer show, sketch comedy for the older one), they both hail from comedy queen Tina Fey and fellow executive producer Robert Carlock, and, most importantly, they're both funny.

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(l-r) Back: Jack Burditt, Executive Producers; Tracey Wigfield, Executive Producer; Tiny Fey, Executive Producer; Robert Carlock, Executive Producer. Front: Horatio Sanz, Adam Campbell, Briga Heelan, Nicole Richie, John Michael Higgins discuss Great News at the TCA Press Tour.

But Great News, which was created by 30 Rock and The Mindy Project writer Tracey Wigfield, has one key difference. "It's a funny show with a lot of fast-paced jokes per page but the show is very different. At its core it's a show about a mother and a daughter," Wigfield said on a Television Critics Association 2017 winter press tour. "There were a couple times -- Tina was very much on it -- about let’s make sure Katie isn’t, like, eating tuna out of a can or tucking her shirt into her underwear, that kind of thing, making sure that Katie is a very different character [than 30 Rock's Liz Lemon]."Plus, joked Fey, "Katie LIKES to have sex."The series follows news producer Katie (Briga Heelan), whose meddling (but well-meaning) mother, Carol (Andrea Martin) goes back to school and lands a new job - as an intern at the TV station Katie works at."My mom is very much like the character," Wigfield said. "The good things about her, she talks to everyone exactly the same whether they're the lady at the grocery store or Alec Baldwin, anyone she interacts with. My mom is very honest and has a happiness about her and is very motherly. She is a straight-up mom. She's not one of these sexy L.A. moms with long blonde hair. My mom shops at Chico's."In fact, despite protesting that her wardrobe isn't stereotypically mom-like, she showed up on set one day wearing the same outfit as Martin (in costume).Wigfield, who saw Fey and Mindy Kaling run and star in their own shows, does show up on screen, but ended up writing herself a smaller part. "I saw them do it and I saw how hard it was, but I love to perform and it was really exciting that I got to write a part for myself. The amount that I’m in it did allow me to run all the rewrites and be on set as much as I wanted to and edit, and I think it worked out really well."Great News premieres Tuesday, April 25 at pm on NBC.