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Never Mind the Buzzcocks

BBC Two

Unsympathetic to the precious pomposity of the rock and pop industry, 'Buzzcocks' takes a sledgehammer to the delicate egos of the biggest and most famous names in music - often whilst they are guests on the programme. The scathing wit of Mark Lamarr and later Simon Amstell, has literally caused guests to walk off the show. Since 2009, the show has been presented by different guest hosts each week.
In 2013, the BBC aired a series called What a Load of Buzzcocks which is narrated by Blur's Alex James and looks at the best bits of a certain year of music including moments from 'Buzzcocks'.moreless
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Outsourced

NBC (ended 2011)

Based on an independent film of the same name, this NBC comedy project follows a novelty company manager when he is sent to India to supervise and train a group of customer service reps.moreless
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Up All Night

NBC (ended 2012)

This Emily Spivey comedy will star Christina Applegate as a professional woman and new mom.
184
Monsters vs. Aliens

Nickelodeon

"Monsters and Aliens" is a TV spin-off of the DreamWorks animated flick of the same name, about a motley crew of Monsters enlisted to save the world from Alien destruction.
185
Guys With Kids

NBC (ended 2013)

Guys with Kids stars Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford and Zach Cregger as three 30-something guys who enjoy the adventures of parenting despite the fact they haven't grown up themselves.
186
Better Off Ted

ABC (ended 2010)

Ted Crisp loves his job. He works for the team at Veridian Dynamics, where nothing is too far-fetched, or out of the ordinary. An average day for Ted could easily involve creating a suicidal turkey, for instance. The only problem is, Ted is ethical and the company is not. The show is being produced by 20th Century Fox Television and ABC Studios.moreless
187
Wilfred (Australia)

SBS One (ended 2010)

At the centre of this sitcom is a cranky dog who believes he is human, and lives to torment the live-in boyfriend of his loving, oblivious owner Sarah. Jason Gann plays the superstar mutt Wilfred.moreless
188
The Hard Times of RJ Berger

MTV - Music Television (ended 2011)

RJ, played by Paul Icaono, stars in a coming-of-age show about the hardships a fifteen-year old faces.
189
Common Law

USA (ended 2012)

Wes Mitchell and Travis Marks are longtime LAPD partners who are having a really hard time working together, so their captain decides to send them to couples therapy.
190
Peep Show

Channel 4

Essentially, a take on The Odd Couple, Peep Show revolves around the lives of Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Osbourne; two twenty-somethings who share a flat. Mark works in an office and has a bleak outlook on life; he's infatuated with his colleague, Sophie Chapman. Jeremy, in contrast, is a lazy, shallow man trying to make it in the music industry. A unique twist that immediately sets the show apart form other sitcoms is the use of the first person view point [the original show title was POV], where we get to see from the characters own eyes. We also get to hear internal thoughts and opinions which reveals things they wouldn't say out loud.moreless
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Outnumbered

BBC

BBC's family comedy following a beleaguered mother and father of three.
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1600 Penn

NBC (ended 2013)

1600 Penn from NBC stars Bill Pullman as the president of the United States with Jenna Elfman as the first lady. Josh Gad ("The Book of Mormon," "Back to You"), who also co-created, plays the president's goofball oldest son; the cast also includes Martha MacIsaac ("Greek"), Andre Holland ("Friends With Benefits"), Amara Miller and Benjamin Stockham. Former White House speechwriter Jon Lovett co-created the show with Gad.moreless
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Zeke and Luther

Disney XD

BFF Zeke and Luther want nothing more in the world than to become world-famous skateboarders. Together with their friends, skating rivals, and family, Zeke & Luther find themselves always busy getting into mischief. This Disney XD comedy series will mix live-action and animation and have plenty of adventure elements to keep boys engaged.moreless
194
Total Drama World Tour

Cartoon Network (ended 2010)

The cast of Total Drama goes on a tour around the world and faces the toughest, most embarrassing, most disgusting challenges you can imagine. See who has what it takes to complete the challenges in this fast paced series that's sure to make you squirm.moreless
195
Cyberchase

PBS Kids

Follow the awesome adventures of three extraordinary kids, collectively called The CyberSquad: Matt, The leader Jackie the CyberSquad's resident fashion guru, and Inez, with a lot of questions in her mind. At the beginning of the series, Matt, Jackie and Inez, through a set of extraordinary circumstances, get transported into "Cyberspace" by a Library Computer on planet Earth. Now all three are involved in a power struggle between the beautiful and wise Motherboard, protector of all Cyberspace, and a dastardly villain named The Hacker,(and his bumbling henchmen, Buzz, and Delete) who wishes to become its controller. With the help of Dr. Marbles and Digit, Motherboard's faithful aides, the kids must go on crazy adventures to save Cyberspace from Hacker and his evil plans by using logic and mathematics instead of weapons and dramatics to defeat any obstacles in their way!moreless
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Comedy Central Presents

Comedy Central

Check out the brand spanking new show home of Comedy Central Presents. On Friday nights, when you've got nothing else to do, you can just flick the channel to Comedy Central and watch some of the worlds finest comedians at work. They'll make you laugh and holler and come back for more.moreless
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Childrens Hospital

Adult Swim

A parody of hospital dramas. This began as a web series before transitioning to TV on Adult Swim.
198
How to Make It in America

HBO (ended 2011)

Entourage masterminds Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg are behind this HBO project about two up-and-comers in their 20's living in New York City. Starring Ben Epstein (Bryan Greenberg) and Cam Calderon (Victor Rasuk), this pair of industrious friends hustle their way to success, striving to achieve the American dream.moreless
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The Ellen Show

CBS (ended 2002)

"What's a small-town girl turned L.A. businesswoman to do when her high-profile, high-finance start-up Internet company goes belly up? And when her social life out west is not doing so great either? Well, as played by Emmy winner Ellen DeGeneres, she reacts by saying goodbye to her dot-com world and heading back to her hometown to put her life together. It remains to be seen, however, whether the best way to do that is by becoming a counselor at her old high school--they still teach Home Economics, for crying out loud--and by moving in with her eccentric mother and unlucky-in-love sister."

"Ellen Richmond (DeGeneres)...decides to trade the stresses of her fast-track, big-city lifestyle for the slower pace of her quieter hometown, where she is known and loved. It remains to be seen, however, whether or not returning to her hometown, a fishbowl of a place, and her eccentric mother, Dot (Cloris Leachman), and scatter-brained sister, Catherine (Emily Rutherfurd), is the best course of action. At home, Ellen becomes reacquainted with her senior prom date, Rusty (Jim Gaffigan), who thinks they can pick up where they left off, and her befuddled high school teacher, Mr. Munn (Martin Mull). Though worlds apart from the people who love her, Ellen begins to adjust to a very different way of life." (CBS press release)

DeGeneres bounced back from the cancellation of her ABC sitcom with this star vehicle, previously titled Ellen, Again. Like her ABC sitcom, her character was, yep, gay. (The series was nominated in 2002 for a GLAAD award for Outstanding Comedy Series.) Unlike her ABC sitcom, it was actually funny. Ellen was in good company, surrounded by a supporting cast full of actors from a wide array of failed CBS TV series. The chemistry was great, the scripts were good. All the cards seemed to be in place. Except for the audience one. A roaring ratings failure from Day 1, The Ellen Show was on just about every pundit's list as one of the sure-thing casualties of the fall -- especially after its lead-out bit the dust after two weeks -- with many of them speculating that CBS was waiting until Ellen's gig hosting the November, 2001 Emmy Awards (that it was their turn to broadcast, and that were postponed a couple times thanks to 9/11) was over and done with before rendering the show over and done with. That way, Ms. DeGeneres -- never one to accept rejection graciously -- couldn't get even by hosting them the Whoopi Goldberg way. But then a funny thing happened. Ellen did a fine job hosting the ceremony, winning lots of critical raves and managing to make people forget about what was going on in the world. And while The Ellen Show probably should have been cancelled anyway, CBS followed up her hosting performance with something even better than a standing ovation or a bouquet of roses. They awarded her show a 22-episode full season. Those same pundits were stunned, and the ailing sitcom seemed like it had a new lease on life when the network followed up the announcement with one stating that it would get a 3-week trial run Mondays at 8:30, a time slot that was nothing if not better than the dead-air equivalent it held on Friday. Unfortunately, after the Monday tryout was over, it returned to Friday -- as if CBS CEO Les Moonves had forgotten when the same exact programming move worked wonders for the languishing ratings of a certain self-entitled Gregory Hines vehicle four years earlier. Ratings even worse than they had been before it moved to Monday, coupled with limp numbers when it was on Monday, prompted Moonves and company to wish they hadn't been so magnanimous, and after the cast and crew managed to shoot 18 of those 22 episodes, the plug was pulled. As was the show itself, so as not to do damage to the Don Bellisario project, First Monday, scheduled to air following it. CBS had 5 episodes of The Ellen Show at their disposal, and chief CBS spokesman/B.S. artist extraordinaire, Chris Ender, swore that they'd air in March and April, 2002 -- going so far as to insult everybody's intelligence by claiming that the series was under consideration for the fall, and production was only stopped because they didn't "have room" for 4 more episodes (crapola nonsense that they'd later rehash for another lame duck, The Stones). Of course, the only thing they didn't have room for anymore were the huge defecits. Advertisers had their fill, and those 5 episodes went straight to the nearest trash can. Curiously, although Ellen's complaints about ABC's supposed mistreatment of a show given four and a half seasons, great time slots and a huge send-off could fill volumes, her complaints about CBS' actual mistreatment of a show given three and a half months, terrible time slots and no send-off couldn't even fill a postcard. Perhaps this was because she had already set her sights on her daytime talk show, which would debut to big hoopla, if not big ratings, two seasons later.

A little trivia: The Ellen Show was originally proposed as a show-within-a-show that lampooned the TV industry, featuring Ellen as the host of a fictitious variety series (The New Ellen Show). Practically no one at CBS was interested, and so instead, we got this. Ellen said she got the idea of The Ellen Show while watching Ed. The series was originally set to be produced by Michael Ovitz's production company, the Artists Television Group, who did make the pilot. However, the editor bankrupted them, and CBS took over their ownership stake before the first episode aired. The other ATG show picked up for Fall, 2001, WB's Lost in the USA, was not so lucky. When ATG died, so did it.

Theme song "The Ellen Show (Main Title Theme)" written by Jude Christodal

The Ellen Show is produced by The Hurwitz Company / CBS Productions, in association with Columbia TriStar Television

Broadcast History -----------------

Sep 2001, Mon 9:30-10:00 Sep 2001-Oct 2001, Fri 8:00-8:30 Oct 2001-Nov 2001, Fri 8:30-9:00 Dec 2001, Mon 8:30-9:00 Dec 2001-Jan 2002, Fri 8:30-9:00

First telecast: September 24, 2001 Last telecast: January 11, 2002 Show type: Multi-Camera Sitcom Number of episodes: 18 Media: 35mm filmmoreless
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Party Down

Starz (ended 2010)

Six caterers trying to make it as Hollywood stars are at the center of this half-hour project from Veronica Mars and Cupid creator Rob Thomas. Each episode of this Starz original will be set at a different catered event and will see hungry Hollywood wanna-bes move among the rich and famous. Season 2 is set to premiere on April 23, 2010.moreless
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