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The show aired in syndication from September 10, 1993, to February 5, 1999, over the course of six seasons and 100 episodes; beginning in season 2, a concurrent run was added on PBS from October 10, 1994, to September 3, 1999, with the show's first run remaining in syndication.
As a comedian, Van gained national attention in 1963 as a performer on CBC Television's late-night satire programme Nightcap. In 1966, after completion of the third season, he threatened to quit the show when the CBC wouldn't give him a requested raise from CA$400 (equivalent to $3,590 in 2023) to $500 (equivalent to $4,490 in 2023) per episode.
Many of the episodes of the series were videotaped at Television City Studios and then Metromedia Square. It is the longest-running religious drama program ever, and the longest-running weekly syndicated program until Soul Train surpassed it in 1996 (only Entertainment Tonight , Wheel of Fortune , Jeopardy! and Extra have had longer runs).
Alive from Off Center, renamed Alive TV in 1992, [1] was an American arts anthology television series aired by PBS between 1985 and 1996. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Each week, the series featured experimental short films by a mixture of up-and-coming and established directors.
John J. O'Connor of the New York Times called the show "something truly different." [1] The show has also been reviewed in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal as "hard to watch," [2] and in the Chicago Tribune as having woeful writing, unappealing characters, an infantile premise, and as "making programmers at the three networks look like charter members of Mensa."
The six-episode order limited the first season of the show, as Seth Meyers revealed in an interview with Collider, stating that they were not able to spoof Michael Moore documentaries, or the HBO documentary miniseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Meyers further explained saying, "The Jinx happened a little too late for us. We ...
In a retrospective review, Bill Wyman of Slate characterized the episode as being about "overkill", remarking that it lacked a clear theme beyond a focus on its own complexity. [20] The Atlantic ' s Hampton Stevens later noted the episode showed how Community was not a sitcom, but rather a satire of the sitcom genre.
The following is a list of episodes for the American television anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which was a revival of the original American television anthology series of the same name. The new series lasted only one season on NBC; NBC cancelled it, but it was then produced for three more years by USA Network. A total of 76 ...