A satire of late-night network-news programs like ABC's Nightline, co-created and executive produced by Saturday Night Live writer and producer Al Franken.
Show Details:
Start date: Mar 1998
End date: Mar 1999
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): NBC (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 19 eps, 7 unaired
Genre(s): Comedy
End date: Mar 1999
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): NBC (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 19 eps, 7 unaired
Genre(s): Comedy
Credits:
- Al Franken as Al Freundlich, correspondent and backup news anchor
- Megyn Price as Gale Ingersoll, Al Freundlich's long suffering producer
- Miguel Ferrer as Vic Karp, tough executive producer
- Robert Foxworth as Pearce McKenzie, veteran news anchor
- Ajay Naidu as Raji Bakshi, show intern
- Catherine Lloyd Burns as Mona Guillingsvard, Pearce's assisitant
- Sanaa Lathan as Briana Gilliam, the show's guest booker
- Zaid Farid as Daryll [ 1 ]
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 17 Mar 98 | Pilot |
| 2. | 1-2 | 24 Mar 98 | Al Anonymous |
| 3. | 1-3 | 31 Mar 98 | Gale Gets a Life |
| 4. | 1-4 | 07 Apr 98 | Buddy Hackett |
| 5. | 1-5 | 14 Apr 98 | Pearce's New Best Friend |
| 6. | 1-6 | 21 Apr 98 | Lawyer, Lawyer |
| Season 2 | |||
| 7. | 2-1 | 06 Jan 99 | Pearce on Conan |
| 8. | 2-2 | 13 Jan 99 | Protecting the Source |
| 9. | 2-3 | 14 Jan 99 | The Minister of Television |
| 10. | 2-4 | 20 Jan 99 | Kids 'N' Guns |
| 11. | 2-5 | 27 Jan 99 | Svadharma |
| 12. | 2-6 | 16 Mar 99 | Karp's Night Out |
| Season 3 | |||
| 13. | 3-1 | 04 Dec 99 | The Seventh Plague |
| 14. | 3-2 | 11 Dec 99 | The Christian Guy |
| 15. | 3-3 | 25 Dec 99 | Mona Moves Up |
| 16. | 3-4 | 08 Jan 00 | Eine Kleine Office Problem |
| 17. | 3-5 | 15 Jan 00 | Requiem for a Horse |
| 18. | 3-6 | 15 Jan 00 | Error Apparent |