 In this movie, Sigourney Weaver plays a television network  president. Weavers father, Sylvester ("Pat") Weaver, was for many  years president of NBC; the writer and director of TV Set, The  (2006), Jake Kasdan, was a producer and writer on "Freaks and Geeks"  (1999), which aired on NBC (albeit many years after Pat Weavers  retirement).