LateLine

This article is about the US sitcom. For the Australian current affairs program, see Lateline.
LateLine
Genre Sitcom
Created by Al Franken
John Markus
Starring Al Franken
Megyn Price
Miguel Ferrer
Ajay Naidu
Sanaa Lathan
Catherine Lloyd Burns
Robert Foxworth
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 19 (12 aired on NBC, 3 aired on Showtime, 4 unaired)
Production
Running time 22 minutes
Production company(s) Markus-Franken Productions
Paramount Television
Release
Original network NBC
Showtime
Original release March 17, 1998 – December 25, 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 which 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.

Episode list

Season 1: 1998

  1. "Pilot" / 1998.03.17
  2. "Al Anonymous" / 1998.03.24
  3. "Gale Gets a Life" / 1998.03.31
  4. "Buddy Hackett" / 1998.04.07
  5. "Pearce's New Best Friend" / 1998.04.14
  6. "Lawyer, Lawyer" / 1998.04.21

Season 2: 1999

  1. "Pearce on Conan" / 1999.01.06
  2. "Protecting the Source" / 1999.01.13
  3. "The Minister of Television" / 1999.01.14
  4. "Kids 'n' Guns" / 1999.01.20
  5. "Svadharma" / 1999.01.27
  6. "Karp's Night Out" / 1999.03.16
  7. "The Christian Guy" / *
  8. "Mona Moves Up" / *
  9. "Error Apparent" / *
  10. "Requiem for a Horse" / *
  11. "The Negotiator" / *
  12. "Eine Kleine Office Problem" / *
  13. "The Seventh Plague" / *

* Not aired on NBC

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