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Mar 26, 2015 · An Oral History Of ‘NewsRadio’: The Show That Refused To Play By The Rules. Ashley Burns and Chloe Schildhause March 26, 2015. Getty Image. The story of NewsRadio ’s five-season run on NBC ...
Season 1 – NewsRadio. Buy NewsRadio — Season 1 on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. An absurdist breath of fresh air, NewsRadio 's first season debuts a comic sensibility that dares to be ...
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- March 21, 1995
- Dave Foley
- It Was The Creator’s First Time Working For A Network sitcom.
- Ten Episode Titles Are Led Zeppelin References.
- Both Jimmy James and Beth Were Named After Songs.
- Sarah Silverman Auditioned For The Role of Beth.
- Ray Romano Was Originally The Station Electrician.
- The Casting Director Accidentally Erased Maura Tierney’s Initial Audition.
- The Cast of Friends Went to The Pilot Taping.
- Phil Hartman’s Early Graphic Artist Career Was A Part of The Show.
- Judd Apatow Was The Uncredited Voice of Goofy Ball.
- Ron Jeremy Is in Mr. James’ Book Reading Audience For No Discernible reason.
Paul Simms went from writing for The Harvard Lampoon and the satirical Spy magazine to working for Late Night with David Letterman and the HBO comedy The Larry Sanders Show (a comedy about a late night talk show host), to overseeing his own show at 29 years old.
The final nine episodes of season two are titled after the names of Zeppelin albums, in a non-chronological, seemingly random order. One season three episode was christened “Led Zeppelin Boxed Set.” When Simms was interviewed for The New York Times to promote the launch of the series, it was noted that he was wearing jeans and a Led Zeppelin T-shir...
Stephen Root’s character is named after the Beastie Boys song from Check Your Head. Beth the secretary got her name from the Kiss ballad.
As did her one-time roommate and Mr. Show castmate Mary Lynn Rajskub, who went on to play Chloe on 24. The part of Beth went to Vicki Lewis.
The part played by Greg Lee in the pilot and by Joe Rogan for the rest of the series was Ray Romano’s for two days. Romano claimed he was “relieved” when his manager told him that he had been fired, and felt deep down that he “wasn’t pulling it off”anyway.
Showing Lisa Miller-like determination, Tierney went back to New York, passed the network audition test, and started rehearsing the same day.
The six stars of Friends watched veteran TV comedy director James Burrows direct NewsRadio’s first episode, and reportedly felt “jealous.” Burrows directed Friends' pilot and nearly half of its first season. Former NBC executive Karey Burke remembers not being able to figure out whether Friends or NewsRadiowould become the network's big “hit."
In “Bill’s Autobiography,” Bill discovers a recording of Dave singing “A Horse With No Name” by America, a song that Lisa claimed Dave is “obsessed” with. Phil Hartman designed three album covers for America, a band managed by his brother John. What was a job in the seventies was Hartman’s hobby in the nineties; Stephen Root recalled to Grantland t...
The 1995 "Goofy Ball" episode found Mr. James tasking Matthew, Beth, and Joe with testing an “annoying” toy being made by one of his companies. Apatow had only been credited in one TV show and one movie before this voice gig, but is labeled as a celebrity guest star on the official DVD.
He has no lines, and is uncredited for appearing in the scene from the classic episode "Super Karate Monkey Death Car.”
- Roger Cormier
Sep 23, 2018 · Twenty years ago today, NewsRadio did the hardest thing a sitcom has to do: they came back after the death of a core cast member. And in this episode, the Season 5 premiere “Bill Moves On ...
Mar 24, 2015 · “NewsRadio” is a show you’ve likely not seen, unless you’re a diehard devotee like me. Though the entirety of its five-season, 97-episode run has been collected on DVD, it appears only ...
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NewsRadio is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from March 21, 1995 to May 4, 1999, focusing on the work lives of the staff of a New York City AM news radio station.
