Matthew Perry portraying Ryan King in the pilot episode of "Go On." (Jordin Althaus - AP)
Justin Kirk portraying George Coleman in the pilot episode of "Animal Practice." (Neil Jacobs - AP) NBC will rerun the pilot episodes of two of its new comedies — Matthew Perry vehicle “Go On,” and Crystal the Monkey vehicle “Animal Practice — on Tuesday at 10, following that night’s episode of “America’s Got Talent.”

This time both shows will air with ad breaks. There’s a limit to how much ad time NBC’s willing to eat to get its new season sampled.

During the network’s coverage of the London Olympic Games, NBC aired those first episodes of both shows, commercial-free.

“Go On,” in which “Friends” alum Matthew Perry plays a sports talk radio host attending boss-mandated group therapy after the death of his wife, aired after Games competition on Wednesday night and averaged about 16 million viewers.

“Animal Practice,” which ostensibly stars “Weed’s” Justin Kirk as a hot-shot Manhatten veterinarian who doesn’t get along with humans and whose BFF is played by Crystal, aired after the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, and averaged nearly 13 million viewers.

PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger (Frederick M. Brown - GETTY IMAGES) PBS CEO Paula Kerger finds recent comments by GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney about cutting the programming service’s federal funding as “extremely disappointing” given the “value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers.”

This week, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney joined the ranks of Republicans unimpressed by PBS’s 58 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations who have vowed to slash its federal funding.

Romney told Fortune magazine he’s a fan of PBS, but federal funding of same would get cut off during his administration.

Two Brazilian boxers, bronze medalist Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino and silver medalist Esquiva Falcao Florentino holding the Olympic flag. (VIRGINIE VALDOIS - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Congrats to Washingtonians on ranking 17th among the country’s 56 so-called “metered” markets when it comes to London Summer Olympics viewing.

Nearly 20 percent of TV homes in our market were watching the competition at any given minute, which puts us in company with San Francisco and Sacramento, according to Nielsen.

Of course, we still have a ways to go if we’re going to beat Salt Lake City, where 25 percent of TV homes were glued to the coverage at any given Games minute.

Mitt Romney (Justin Sullivan - GETTY IMAGES) Though the debate in Washington about cutting federal funding for public television is ongoing, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in an interview with Fortune magazine that he would cut the PBS subsidy from the federal budget.

“So first there are programs I would eliminate. Obamacare being one of them but also various subsidy programs — the Amtrak subsidy, the PBS subsidy, the subsidy for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities,” Romney told Fortune.

He added, “Some of these things, like those endowment efforts and PBS I very much appreciate and like what they do in many cases, but I just think they have to stand on their own rather than receiving money borrowed from other countries, as our government does on their behalf.”

Kelsey Grammer tells NBC late-night host Jay Leno why he did not get an Emmy nom for his starring role in Starz’s drama series “Boss.”

It’s because he’s a Republican.

(His comments start around 3:20).