If history is written by the victors, then the executives presiding over NBC's dismal prime-time performance in recent years are unlikely ever to publish a chronicle of television in the era of "American Idol," "NCIS" and other hits the network doesn't air. But there was a time when NBC ruled the ratings, and Warren Littlefield—the former president of NBC Entertainment who oversaw "Seinfeld," "Friends," "ER" and a raft of other moneymaking shows—doesn't want anyone to forget it. He also surely knows that in the television arts and sciences, people who also write books, or at least have their name on the cover, are practically authors.
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