"States. Originally the producer of the show, Michaels was also a writer and later became executive producer. He occasionally appears on-screen as well, where he is known for his deadpan humor. Throughout the show's history, ""SNL"" has been nominated for more than 156 Emmy Awards and has won 36. It has consistently been one of the highest-rated late-night television programs. Michaels has been with ""SNL"" for all seasons except for his hiatus in the early 1980s (seasons 6–10). His daughter, Sophie, has appeared in episodes, one of which was during the show's 30th season hosted by Johnny Knoxville during the"
"eventually be surpassed by Kenan Thompson in the 2012–13 season. Then-featured players Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph (daughter of the late singer Minnie Riperton) were also introduced during this season. History of Saturday Night Live (1995–2000) ""Saturday Night Live"" is an American sketch comedy series created and produced by Lorne Michaels for most of the show's run. The show has aired on NBC since 1975. After a disastrous 1994–95 season featuring a mix of old and new characters, Michaels decided to once again revamp the cast, keeping only five cast members and hiring six. The 1995–96 season once again saved"
"as a writer. Michaels and Shuster were married in 1971 and divorced in 1980. He married model Susan Forristal in 1984, which ended in divorce in 1987. Michaels married his current wife and former assistant, Alice Barry, in 1991. Michaels is Jewish. Michaels began his career as a writer and broadcaster for CBC Radio. He moved to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1968 to work as a writer for ""Laugh-In"" and ""The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show"". He starred with Hart Pomerantz in ""The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour"", a Canadian comedy series which ran briefly in the early 1970s. In"
"with Lorne Greene as the leader of the conspiracy. Michaels was identified as the anointed successor to Greene. Michaels is also the executive producer of NBC show ""Late Night,"" and was the executive producer of ""30 Rock"" and ""Up All Night"" during their runs. On April 3, 2013, it was announced that Michaels would be taking over as the executive producer for ""The Tonight Show"". Consequently, ""The Tonight Show"" moved to New York in early 2014 as ""The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"". In 1999, Michaels was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame and was awarded a star"
"History of Saturday Night Live (1995–2000) ""Saturday Night Live"" is an American sketch comedy series created and produced by Lorne Michaels for most of the show's run. The show has aired on NBC since 1975. After a disastrous 1994–95 season featuring a mix of old and new characters, Michaels decided to once again revamp the cast, keeping only five cast members and hiring six. The 1995–96 season once again saved the show from cancellation, introducing a new era of ""Saturday Night Live"" characters and sketches that were highly popular with audiences. This cast stayed mostly stable until the 1998–99 season,"
"so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, and asked him to create a show to fill the Saturday night time slot. At the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the latter's idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire, and music performances that would attract 18- to 34-year-old viewers. By 1975, Michaels had assembled a talented cast,"
"October 11, 1975, with George Carlin as its host. It was created by Canadian Lorne Michaels. The original concept was for a comedy-variety show featuring young comedians, live musical performances, and short films. Rather than have one permanent host there was a different guest host each week. The first cast members were The Second City alumni Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner and ""National Lampoon Lemmings"" alumni Chevy Chase (whose trademark became his usual falls and opening spiel that ushered in the show's opening), Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, and Garrett Morris. The original head writer was Michael O'Donoghue, a"
"Leacock's ""Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"". Another pioneer in Canadian television comedy was, oddly, a news series. ""This Hour Has Seven Days,"" which debuted in 1964, was primarily meant as a newsmagazine, but its segments included political satire as well as serious news reports. Later series such as ""Royal Canadian Air Farce"", ""This Hour Has 22 Minutes"" and ""Rick Mercer Report"" have all drawn on the tradition of political satire established by ""Seven Days"", and have been among Canadian television's most popular comedy series in recent years. Canadian born Lorne Michaels, who had moved from Toronto to Los Angeles"
"productions of parts of the cycle included Broadway revivals in 1948 (not including ""Still Life"") and 1967 (including ""Still Life"" ) and in 1981 at the Lyric Theatre in London (not including ""Still Life""). The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles revived all ten plays in October 2007. In 2009, the Shaw Festival revived the full cycle. ""Still Life"" was given a television production in 1951. In 1991, BBC television mounted productions of the individual plays starring Joan Collins. In most of the plays she took the Lawrence roles, but in ""Still Life"" she played Myrtle. In the refreshment room of"
"""Mulaney,"" ""Portlandia,"" ""The Awesomes,"" ""Man Seeking Woman,"" and ""The Maya Rudolph Show."" The company’s Above Average Productions distributes its own original digital shorts, and those of others, on one of YouTube’s leading comedy networks. Broadway Video Enterprises distributes the company’s library and develops branded entertainment. Broadway Video Ventures invests in emerging technology, media, and entertainment companies. Broadway Video Television develops and produces primetime and late night programming. Its flagship show, ""Saturday Night Live,"" where Michaels remains Executive Producer, begins its 43rd season in September 2017. Michaels also has served as Executive Producer of NBC’s ""Late Night"" franchise for more than"
"of the Brooklyn Bridge, and shows the cast engaging in conversations around a local nightclub. History of Saturday Night Live (2000–05) ""Saturday Night Live"" is an American sketch comedy series created and produced by Lorne Michaels for most of the show's run. The show has aired on NBC since 1975. These years saw many cast changes, most prominently Will Ferrell's exit in 2002 and Jimmy Fallon's exit in 2004. Cast members hired during this period that would later have a huge impact on the show include Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler. The 2000–01 season marked the beginning of yet another"
"that reached viewers who could not stay awake for the live broadcasts. But during the first season in 1975 and 1976, according to a book about the show authored by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, some NBC executives were not satisfied with the show's Nielsen ratings and shares. Lorne Michaels pointed out to them that Nielsen's measurement of demographics indicated that baby boomers constituted a large majority of the viewers who did commit to watching the show, and many of them watched little else on television. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, even"
"still running (October 2017) and is the world's longest-running soap opera with a total of over 18,400 episodes. There had been some earlier serialized drama including, the six episode ""The Shadow of the Swastika"" (1939), Dorothy L. Sayers's ""The Man Born To Be King"", in twelve episodes (1941), and ""Front Line Family"" (1941–48), which was broadcast to America as part of the effort to encourage the USA to enter the war. The show's storylines depicted the trials and tribulations of a British family, the Robinsons, living through the war. This featured plots about rationing, family members missing in action and"
"to kill herself. And for the tough Jack Walsh, there's another problem. He's falling in love. Midnight Run for Your Life Midnight Run for Your Life (1994) is the third in a series of made-for-TV sequel/spin-offs for Universal Television's Action Pack of the widely acclaimed action/comedy ""Midnight Run"". Following the further misadventures of ex-Chicago-cop-turned-bounty-hunter Jack Walsh, a role originated on the big screen by Robert De Niro, ""Midnight Run for Your Life"" follows its predecessors ""Another Midnight Run"" and ""Midnight Runaround"". Lorna Bellstratten (Walters), a waitress with dreams of being in show business, is duped by her drug-dealer boyfriend Michael"
"History of Saturday Night Live (1980–85) ""Saturday Night Live"" is an American sketch comedy series created and produced by Lorne Michaels for most of the show's run. The show has aired on NBC since 1975. After the 1979–80 season, Michaels attempted to take a break and appoint writer Al Franken his successor. However, then-president of NBC Fred Silverman passed on Franken and gave the job to associate producer Jean Doumanian, bringing in a brand new cast and mostly new writers, and resulting in the most critically unstable season in ""SNL""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s history. Doumanian was fired and replaced with Dick Ebersol, who"
"on Antenna TV, a digital subchannel network that broadcasts classic programming from the 1950s-1990s era. IFC also picked up the series for reruns in spring 2015. FETV, a cable and satellite network, began airing the series in December of 2017. In 2018, Canadian superstation CHCH began carrying the series; the station is viewable over-the-air in portions of the United States. Although Rhino Records now serves as the underlying rights holder for this series (as they acquired the Monkees' music catalog, TV series and official logo from Raybert and Columbia Pictures in 1994), Sony Pictures Television remains the television distributor for"
"networks were running 24 hour marathons in 2017, as well. A sequel involving Ralphie and his family, titled ""My Summer Story"" (originally released as ""It Runs in the Family""), was made in 1994. With the exceptions of Tedde Moore as Ralphie's teacher (Miss Shields) and Jean Shepherd as the narrator (the voice of the adult Ralphie), it features an entirely different cast. A series of television films involving the Parker family, also from Shepherd stories, were made by PBS, including ""Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss"" (1988), ""The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski"" (1985), ""The Great American Fourth of July and"
"on other nights either as an additional episode shown during that week, or a temporary rearrangement to make room for another program. In 1993, The Family Channel (FAM) began airing reruns, but it was removed from the lineup when the Family Channel became the FOX Family Channel in August 1998. In 1993, a reformatted version (see below) of the show was sold into off-network syndication. The syndicated version continued to air both in the U.S. and internationally long after the show's cancellation, but it had not aired in the U.S. since July 2005. As of October 2017, the show airs"
"produced the series after 1975. Within the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power movement, the program was created by WABC-TV to fill a void in black-oriented programming. In its earlier days ""Like It Is"" focused primarily on black celebrities; later it would focus entirely on politically related matters after Noble became sole host and producer. As host and interviewer Noble exercised a low-key style, often subtly playing devil's advocate in an effort to get the most out of his guests. For a time ""Like It Is"" was also co-hosted by Melba Tolliver. The program won seven New"
"was renewed for a sixth season of 20 episodes. Showrunner Jeff Davis confirmed that Tyler Posey, Dylan O'Brien, Holland Roden, Shelley Hennig and Dylan Sprayberry would be reprising their roles as Scott McCall, ""Stiles"" Stilinski, Lydia Martin, Malia Tate and Liam Dunbar respectively. In June 2009, MTV announced that they would be adapting the 1985 film ""Teen Wolf"" into a new television series ""with a greater emphasis on romance, horror and werewolf mythology"". MTV's ""Teen Wolf"" series was a re-imagining of the earlier Michael J. Fox comedy film, which was itself a reimagining of the classic 1957 AIP film, ""I"
"air, with the original cast members who appeared in those sketches reprising their roles along with numerous guest stars. A handful of commercial parodies, including ""Colon Blow"" and ""Mom Jeans,"" reran as they originally appeared on the show. The show included musical performances by: This special assembled together a large list of current and former cast members, hosts, and musical acts from throughout the show's forty seasons. Show creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels stated that every host and most musical guests were invited, plus any cast member and writer who had been on the show more than a year."
"on various television material. During this period they worked as writers and producers on television shows such as ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"", ""ALF"", ""Sledge Hammer!"" and ""It's Garry Shandling's Show"". In 1989, Jean was offered a job as a writer on the animated sitcom ""The Simpsons"", a show created by Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon that continues to air today. Many of Jean's friends were not interested in working on ""The Simpsons"" because it was a cartoon and they did not think it would last long. Jean, however, was a fan of the work of"
"series) – (4 episodes, 2012) Royal Pains (TV series) – (3 episodes, 2010–2015) The Philanthropistt (TV series) – (1 episode, 2009) Merlin (TV series) – (3 episodes, 2008) Life Is Wild (TV series) – (4 episodes, 2007–2008) ShakespeaRe-Told (TV mini-series) – (1 episode, 2005) A Thing Called Love (TV series) – (2 episodes, 2004) Murphy's Law (TV series) – (2 episodes, 2004) Burn It (TV series) – (5 episodes, 2003) As If (TV series) – (6 episodes, 2002) The Bill (TV series) – (4 episodes, 2000–2001) Once Upon a Time (1998 short) Lloyds Bank Channel 4 Film Challenge (TV series)"
"series continued on the Blue Network's successor, ABC, through 1958. From 1958 to 1960 the series was broadcast on CBS. As network radio waned with the rise of television, the Met founded its own independent Metropolitan Opera Radio Network in 1960, which is now heard on radio stations around the world. The Met's first live closed-circuit television transmission was ""Carmen"" with Rise Stevens, sent to 31 movie theaters in 27 US cities on December 11, 1952. In Canada the live broadcasts have been heard since December 1933, first on the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. Since 1934 they have been heard"
"ran from 1951 to 1957 on CBS, was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched only by ""The Andy Griffith Show"" in 1968 and ""Seinfeld"" in 1998) . The show is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world, and remains popular, with an American audience of 40 million each year. Colorized edits of episodes from the original series have aired semi-annually on the network since 2013, six decades after the series aired."
"United States, the series was syndicated by American Public Television to public television stations in that country, most of which were affiliated with PBS, starting on January 9, 1995 and ending in February 2007, with reruns airing until 2009. In Canada, it was shown on Treehouse TV until it stopped broadcasting on February 27, 2011. This show is currently airing on Makeful. Throughout the years, various merchandise has been sold under the show's banner such as VHS tapes, DVDs, coloring books, stuffed plush dolls, furniture, puzzles, and life size dolls. A large painting of someone is now hanging on Loonette's"
"not officially exist) were nothing. A 1988 television series was the immensely successful British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf. It originated from a 1980s' recurring radio sketch: Dave Hollins: Space Cadet and ran for 10 series over three time periods - Series 1-6 between 1988 and 1993, Series 7 & 8 between 1997 and 1999, plus a 3-parter (Series 9) in 2008 and Series 10 in 2012. In addition to the television series, there are four bestselling novels, two pilot episodes for an American version of the show, a radio version produced for BBC Radio 7,[2] tie-in books, magazines and"
"troupe to produce another weekly television series, which debuted in 1993. However, this time the move to television was permanent. The radio series continued alongside the TV show for four seasons until May 1997, when it was discontinued. The practice of having a show on New Year's Eve continued to the end of the program, and such episodes were typically titled ""Year of the Farce"". In recent years, Air Farce also had the honour of counting down the seconds before the New Year on CBC. Recurring characters on the TV series included the slow Albertan Mike, from Canmore (Morgan) and"
"Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast as with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold"
"latter appearing as its own show rather to a spin-off. In 2008, a late night spin-off was produced by Lucy Allan named ""Hollyoaks Later"". This first series, although being broadcast late at night, was more of a spin-off than a special. A second series was commissioned the following year and aired in September. A third series was announced in April 2010 before airing later that year. A fourth series of ""Hollyoaks Later"" aired in September 2011 and saw the return of Michaela McQueen. A fifth series aired in September 2012, and a sixth in October 2013. It is currently on"
"have genuine moments of brilliance [...] the low spot would be the new material [...] With so much good material to call on it is madness to insert indifferent items. Dad and Marty would not be amused."" In 2008, Barry Took's ex-wife Lyn worked on an alternative stage show, ""Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut"". Directed by Richard Baron, this featured exclusively Took/Feldman material from series one to three and toured in 2008 and 2009. In 2015, to mark 50 years since the radio series began, Apollo Theatre Company produced a theatrical adaptation entitled ""Round the Horne: The 50th"
"(1951–53, which also dramatized the short story ""What You Need"") and ""Science Fiction Theatre"" (1955–57); radio programs such as ""The Weird Circle"", ""Dimension X"", and ""X Minus One""; and the radio work of one of Serling's inspirations, Norman Corwin. The success of the series led to , a radio series, a comic book, a magazine, a theme park attraction, and various other spin-offs that spanned five decades, including two revival television series. The first revival ran on CBS and in syndication in the 1980s, while the second ran on UPN from 2002 to 2003. ""TV Guide"" ranked the original TV"
"original television programs, the most popular of which include the crime drama ""Dexter"", the dark comedy-drama ""Weeds"", family dramas ""Ray Donovan"" and ""Shameless"" and the drama/thriller series ""Homeland"". Other notable past and present original series include ""Stargate SG-1"" (which ran on Showtime for its first five seasons, before moving to the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) for the remainder of its run); ""Dead Like Me""; ""Californication""; ""Nurse Jackie""; ""The Tudors""; ""Brotherhood""; ""Soul Food""; ""Queer as Folk""; ""The L Word""; ""The Big C""; """"; and ""United States of Tara"". From 2007 to 2013, multiplex service Showtime 2 broadcast an original program exclusive"