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    The New Show is an NBC sketch comedy show produced by Lorne Michaels that ran for one season from January 6 to March 23, 1984. Apart from being 60 minutes in length and entirely pre-recorded, the show is similar in format to Michaels' own Saturday Night Live.

  2. The New Show: Created by Lorne Michaels. With Maggie Wheeler, Dave Thomas, Buck Henry, Valri Bromfield. Sketch comedy show, similar to Saturday Night Live but nowhere near as successful. Ran one season.

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  3. Dec 31, 2014 · The New Show is an NBC sketch comedy show produced by Lorne Michaels that ran for one season from January 6 to March 23, 1984. Apart from being 60 minutes in length and entirely pre-recorded, the show is similar in format to Michaels' own Saturday Night Live.

  4. May 1, 2024 · Lorne Michaels' Highly Anticipated Follow-Up to Saturday Night Live. There was a big media push for The New Show, with Michaels and others giving a bevy of interviews. One was with The...

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    • In The 'Ratings Cellar'

    The New Showdebuted on Jan. 6, 1984. And in the days before it went to air, no one seemed to know what it was about. Nadine Berger, reporting for the CBC's current affairs program The Journal, caught up with the show's writers and actors in a piece that aired a week later. "Some old faces were seen along with others who were willing to risk a new s...

    Bromfield, a fellow Canadian, had long worked in comedy with Michaels. "You enter into his world of danger," she said. "Television is for here and now. That's why he loves live TV." But what The New Showwould look like was still hard to grasp, so Berger asked some of its writers if they knew. "No, I don't know," said a young Al Franken. His respons...

    Two episodes in, the reviews were not kind. "With the exception of guest host Steve Martin's hilarious take-off of Michael Jackson's video Billie Jean... the memorable moments have been few and far between," wrote The Canadian Press. "Critics have said they've found little to laugh about and have complained that the show's sketches are long and dra...

  5. Sep 23, 2022 · Lorne Michaels on the set of “Saturday Night Live,” where a major cast overhaul is underway this season. Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC. By Dave Itzkoff. Sept. 23, 2022. Whether you think “Saturday...

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  7. May 30, 2012 · In late 1983, NBC announced its commitment to 13 episodes of The New Show, heralding Lorne Michaels’ return to TV. Several media outlets celebrated this, none more so than New York...

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