LateLine
LateLine | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by |
Al Franken John Markus |
Starring |
Al Franken Megyn Price Miguel Ferrer Ajay Naidu Sanaa Lathan Catherine Lloyd Burns Robert Foxworth |
Composer(s) | Mat Morse |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 19 (7 unaired) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Al Franken John Markus |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Markus-Franken Productions Paramount Television |
Release | |
Original network |
NBC Showtime |
Original release | March 17, 1998 – March 19, 1999 |
LateLine is an American television sitcom that premiered on NBC on March 17, 1998. The series concluded on March 16, 1999, with seven episodes left unaired due to an abrupt cancellation. Three of the unaired episodes were telecast by the Showtime cable network in December 1999.
Created by John Markus and Al Franken (the latter of whom co-starred in the series), LateLine depicted the behind-the-scenes goings-on of a fictitious late-night television news broadcast, patterned in part after the long-running ABC program Nightline. Many plotlines in the series were satirical, dealing with topics like Deep Throat and the Watergate break-in, and the episodes often had cameos by famous politicians.
On August 17, 2004, Paramount released a DVD set containing all nineteen episodes on three discs.
Cast
- Al Franken.....Al Freundlich
- Megyn Price.....Gale Ingersoll
- Ajay Naidu.....Raji Bakshi
- Sanaa Lathan.....Briana Gilliam
Episode list
Season 1: 1998
- "Pilot" / 1998.03.17
- "Al Anonymous" / 1998.03.24
- "Gale Gets a Life" / 1998.03.31
- "Buddy Hackett" / 1998.04.07
- "Pearce's New Best Friend" / 1998.04.14
- "Lawyer, Lawyer" / 1998.04.21
Season 2: 1999
- "Pearce on Conan" / 1999.01.06
- "Protecting the Source" / 1999.01.13
- "The Minister of Television" / 1999.01.14
- "Kids 'n' Guns" / 1999.01.20
- "Svadharma" / 1999.01.27
- "Karp's Night Out" / 1999.03.16
- "The Christian Guy" / *
- "Mona Moves Up" / *
- "Error Apparent" / *
- "Requiem for a Horse" / *
- "The Negotiator" / *
- "Eine Kleine Office Problem" / *
- "The Seventh Plague" / *
* Not aired on NBC