THIS DAY IN TV
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show debuted on July 21, 1996.
* First host: ex-ESPN anchor Craig Kilborn.
* It was conceived as a parody of news shows, but with a newsmagazine approach. Jon Stewart took over in 1999 and with a new writing staff, developed it into a satire of cable news and politics.
* Early features included “This Day in Hasselhoff History,” and “Last Weekend’s Top-Grossing Films, Converted into Lira.”
* Prominent former Daily Show “correspondents”: Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Ed Helms, and Demetri Martin.More than 600 million people watched the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969.
A SHOW IS BORN
Married … with Children (1987–97)
“The show was sold on the premise that no one is ever going to learn anything watching it,” said series creator Michael G. Moye, who, with partner Ron Leavitt (both writers on The Jeffersons), found a willing network in the not-yet-broadcasting Fox after the Big Three turned it down. The premise: A sitcom based on a crass family with parents played by comedians Sam Kinison and Roseanne Barr (who were ultimately replaced with Ed O’Neill and Katey Sagal). While pitching it to Fox, Moye and Leavitt hammered home the fact that this was “not The Cosby Show” so often that the project took on the phrase Not the Cosbys for its title. When Fox bought the show, they rechristened it the droll Married …with Children.
Violent crime dropped 6% in the 1990s; TV news coverage of crime increased by 240%.
AROUND THE WORLD
Names of American shows in foreign countries
DIFF’RENT STROKES
The Spanish title of the white-man-adopts-black-children sitcom cuts right to the chase: Blanco y Negro, or “Black and White.” Elsewhere, the show is known as “Little Boy Arnold Is Popular” (Japan) and “My Family Is a Mess” (Brazil).
The Spanish title of the white-man-adopts-black-children sitcom cuts right to the chase: Blanco y Negro, or “Black and White.” Elsewhere, the show is known as “Little Boy Arnold Is Popular” (Japan) and “My Family Is a Mess” (Brazil).
BOB THE BUILDER
In Finland, this kids’ show isn’t about a guy named Bob, and he isn’t a builder. He’s known there as Puuha-Pete, or “Potter Pete.”
MURDER, SHE WROTEIn Finland, this kids’ show isn’t about a guy named Bob, and he isn’t a builder. He’s known there as Puuha-Pete, or “Potter Pete.”
In Germany, it’s known as Mord ist ihr Hobby, or “Murder Is Her Hobby” (which explains all those murders in that tiny Maine town).
Studies show: TV is the third most talked-about subject, after “cost of living” and “family.”
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