Hour Glass is the first regularly scheduled variety show shown on American network television. It ran on NBC from May 9, 1946 until March 1947.
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Welcome Aboard is an American variety show that was televised live on Sundays at 7:30pm EST on NBC. The series was initially titled Admiral Presents the Five Star Revue—Welcome Aboard, when it was sponsored by Admiral but was retitled when sponsorship was dropped in December 1948. The premiere episode featured Martin and Lewis, and Phil Silvers. The second episode on October 10 also featured Martin and Lewis, and a kinescope of this latter show is preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Three additional episodes are held by the Library of Congress
A comedy-variety show hosted by Marie Osmond.
The Perry Como Show was a musical-comedy variety program hosted by Perry Como.
Dolly is a television variety show that ran on ABC during the 1987-1988 season featuring Dolly Parton.
Unprecedented real incidents that took place in Korean apartments! And six residents uncovering the mysteries of the apartment! The year changes with every episode. The cast directly faces incidents that happened in each era and solves the “secret of the apartment.” Who will become the main character to uncover the hidden secret? A variety show full of fantastic chemistry and real laughter, based on real apartment incidents, a time-and-space transcending true story chase drama.
The Rich Little Show is an American sketch variety show hosted by Rich Little that aired on NBC in 1975-1976.
Four Star Revue was an American variety show that aired on NBC from October 4, 1950 to December 26, 1953.
Swimming is full of passion and pays homage to the spirit of the Asian Games. The original program "Strive to the Top" for swimming training and competition is full of enthusiasm. The show is composed of Fu Yuan Hui, a young girl who won the women's 50-meter and 100-meter backstroke events at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, and "Fu Yuan Hui," who defeated Phelps twice in international competitions and achieved four consecutive butterfly championships in the National Games. Wu Peng, the first person in history, serves as the coach, and actor Chen Xiao Jun, who has learned swimming since childhood and was a former professional swimmer, serves as the swimming assistant coach, leading a total of 10 students including Liu Wei, Ma Zhe, Sun Yi Hang, Tian Xuan Ning, Wang Jia Xuan, Hetibal, Yang Moi, ONER Yue Yue, Zhong Li Li and Zhao Rang who learned swimming and finally competed in the entertainment industry invitational competition. (Source: Chinese = Youku || Translation = MyDramaList)
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
Cher and Sonny Bono starred in this quintessentially '70's TV comedy/variety show. Sonny and Cher's hit songs featured prominently on the show, as they would often sing and perform them between short skits.
A battle of strong women who stake everything to win! "Queen of Ssireum", is the new full-fledged girl crush fighting show.
The famous series of 'three meals a day' came back with a new crew and a beautiful scenery of mountains. Three celebrities - Yum Jung-ah, Yoon Se-a, and Park So-dam - have to follow to rules of the program, to be self-sufficient without any help of others.
The Amanda Show is an American live action sketch comedy and variety show that aired on Nickelodeon from October 16, 1999 to September 21, 2002. It starred Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, and Nancy Sullivan, along with several performing artists who came and left at different points, such as John Kassir, Raquel Lee, and Josh Peck. The show was a spin-off from All That, in which Bynes had co-starred for several years. The show was unexpectedly cancelled at the end of 2002, according to creator Dan Schneider's blog. Writers for the show included John Hoberg, Steven Molaro, Andrew Hill Newman, and Dan Schneider. Two years after the end of The Amanda Show, Dan Schneider created a new series, called Drake & Josh, featuring Drake Bell, Josh Peck and Nancy Sullivan.
Texaco Star Theater is an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting, remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname "Mr. Television". The classic 1940–44 version of the program, hosted by radio's Fred Allen, was followed by a radio series on ABC in the spring of 1948. When Texaco first took it to television on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact.
The Garry Moore Show is the name for several separate American variety series on the CBS television network in the 1950s and 1960s. Hosted by experienced radio performer, Garry Moore, the series helped launch the careers of many comedic talents, such as Dorothy Loudon, Don Adams, George Gobel, Carol Burnett, Don Knotts, Lee Goodman, James Kirkwood, Jr. and Jonathan Winters. The Garry Moore Show garnered a number of Emmy nominations and wins.
The Midnight Special is an American late-night musical variety series that aired on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a special on August 19, 1972, then began its run as a regular series on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981. The ninety-minute program followed the Friday night edition of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The show typically featured guest hosts, except for a period from July 1975 through March 1976 when singer Helen Reddy served as the regular host. Wolfman Jack served as the announcer and frequent guest host. The series also occasionally aired vintage footage of older acts. As the program neared the end of its run in the early 1980s, it began to frequently use lip-synched performances rather than live. The program also featured occasional comedic performances such as Richard Pryor and Andy Kaufman.
Wowowillie was a noontime show in the Philippines aired by TV5, Premiered on January 26, 2013, and broadcast live from TV5's Delta Studio in Quezon City, the timeslot is every Weekdays at 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm and Saturdays at 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm with its main host and producer, Willie Revillame. This is the first time noontime show that was given rated Strong Parental Guidance or SPG by MTRCB.
A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the West'.
Yoo Jae-suk reunites the producing team of Infinite Challenge and presents you How Do You Play? The Indefinitely expanding YOONIVERSE, based on Yoo's blood, sweat, and tears, will entertain viewers at home. Let's follow Yoo and his friends' new projects every week.
Winner Take All, an American radio-television game show, ran from 1946-1952 on CBS and NBC. It was the first game show produced by the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman partnership. The series was originally hosted by Ward Wilson, but is best known for being the first game hosted by Bill Cullen. Although the game format was very simple, Winner Take All served as the genesis for many future game-show formats. It was the first game to use lockout devices, and the first to use returning champions.
Liu has been bullied for her looks her whole life. To fit in at university and escape the judgment, she undergoes plastic surgery. After her transformation, she befriends Faye, a stunning natural beauty. However, Liu’s life takes a turn when Guy, a handsome acquaintance from middle school, warns her to stay away from Faye. This angers Liu, especially compared to Saint, her kind and supportive neighbor. When Liu’s secret is revealed, her friends turn on her, leaving her to question if she will ever truly be accepted for who she is.
Making News is a television drama set in the world of journalism produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. A pilot was screened in 1989, followed by one series of six episodes in 1990. The leading cast members included Bill Nighy, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Paul Darrow, Annie Lambert and Tony Osoba.
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.
Zuo Qiandai confesses to her crush, Lu Yeqi, only to discover he’s secretly a famous female manga artist. Tricked into becoming his comic assistant, Qiandai enters a vibrant world of eccentric characters and unpredictable adventures while chasing their dreams in the world of manga.
New Love Playlist will tell the story of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they deal with feelings of love in such an unimaginable and difficult time.
Strictly Come Dancing is a South African reality dance competition television series produced by Rapid Blue and based on the British show of the same name in which celebrities are partnered with professional Latin and Ballroom dancers and must work each week on perfecting a dance routine, with public voting deciding a weekly elimination.
Based on a Thai legend, it tells the unearthly love story between Mak and his wife Nak who died in childbirth while her husband was at war and nevertheless remained around with her child both as ghosts. When Mak returns home, he finds his wife and child seemingly well.
A story of hope and despair surrounding the lives of a mother and son from a small town in Subei. The 18-year-old Ding Xiao Jun who lives with his mother Ding Bi Yun has been admitted to a university in Beijing. However, as soon as he entered university, he is ridiculed by his classmates. Ding Xiao Jun starts to rebel until he gets a warning that he will no longer graduate. Luckily, his mother gets through to him in time for him to pull himself together and earn enough credits to graduate.
In the heavenly vision, the three giants fled from the heaven to haunt the world. The Jade Emperor sent Nezha to the lower realms to look for the three world protectors.
Inspired by true events, the world hidden behind a prison’s walls is revealed through the life stories of three unique women.
Codename Icarus is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1981. The series combined elements of teenage drama and conspiracy thriller. It involved child prodigies being manipulated as the basis for a complex scheme involving nuclear missiles and the mysterious Icarus Foundation's plot to take over the world. It starred Barry Angel as child prodigy Martin Smith and Philip Locke as John Doll. The BBC and Knight books released a novelization of the series by Richard Cooper in 1981. The serial has been released on DVD in the United States. The location for the scenes when the children were at school was the Redrice School, just outside Andover, Hampshire, UK. This school has since been renamed as the Farleigh School. All the child extras came from the Harrow Way Community School in Andover.
Part of the award-winning Biography series, A&E Network will premiere three new documentaries exploring the lives and careers of comedy giants Chris Farley, Jeff Dunham and Jeff Foxworthy. Airing across two days, the specials will delve deep into the careers and personal lives of these dynamic performers to give viewers an insider’s look at what it took for each to reach the top.
Four old friends from high school find themselves at that stage where they realize that their lives didn't turn out exactly the way they'd planned. Over the course of one crazy evening, a series of calamities reunites this hapless brood at Los Angeles Westside Hospital, where they all find themselves under the care of a reluctant Dr. Joanna.
A young woman returns to Malaysia to take over her father’s old coffee shop. Along with inheriting the Kopitiam, she gains a kooky group of friends.
Seven years after her family’s massacre, Jiang Chan discovers a link to Li Sha Lou, a secretive assassin organization. To uncover the truth, she masters her family’s martial arts, adopts the alias Hua Shan, and infiltrates the group.
Inspector Zenigata takes on cases in Japan.
