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Variety shows hosted by Helen Haynes and Harriet Lee are recorded in contemporary newspapers in and ; because of technical limits of the era, no recordings of either show have been preserved. The genre proliferated during the Golden Age of Television , generally considered to be roughly to Many of these Golden Age variety shows were spinoffs of previous radio variety shows. Using his no-nonsense approach, host Ed Sullivan was instrumental in bringing many acts to prominence in the United States, including Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

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Perry Como also hosted a series of variety shows that collectively ran from to , followed by variety specials that ran until The audience was also encouraged to dress in period costume in a similar fashion. Entertainers with less successful variety shows in the s include Judy Garland and Sammy Davis Jr. In and , the American TV networks, CBS especially, conducted the so-called " rural purge ", in which shows that appealed to more rural and older audiences were cancelled as part of a greater focus on appealing to wealthier demographics. Many variety shows, including long-running ones, were cancelled as part of this "purge," with a few shows such as Hee Haw and The Lawrence Welk Show surviving and moving into first-run syndication.

Variety shows continued to be produced in the s, with most of them stripped down to only music and comedy.

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By the late s, nearly every variety show had ended production, in part because of audience burnout; [4] the highest-rated variety show of , Cher , was only the 22nd-most watched show of the year. By the early s, the few new variety shows being produced were of remarkably poor quality see, for instance, the infamous Pink Lady and Jeff , hastening the format's demise. Since Pink Lady , only a few traditional variety shows have been attempted by major networks: By the 21st century, the variety show format had fallen out of fashion, due largely to changing tastes and the fracturing of media audiences caused by the proliferation of cable and satellite television that makes a multiple-genre variety show impractical.

Similarly, CMT held the rights to Hee Haw but telecast very few episodes, opting mainly to hold rights to allow them to air performance videos from the show in its video blocks. The current rights holder of Hee Haw , RFD-TV , has been more prominent in its telecasts of the show; RFD-TV also airs numerous other country -style variety shows from the s and s up through the present day, in a rarity for modern television.

Digital multicast network getTV shows variety shows on an irregular basis.

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The Spanish language variety show Sabado Gigante , which began in , and then moved from Chile to the United States in , continued to produce and broadcast new episodes on Univision until its cancellation in September At least one national variety show continues on national radio: Live from Here , a musical variety series hosted by Chris Thile. It has followed three formats over the course of its history, the first and longest being that of A Prairie Home Companion ; founding host Garrison Keillor created the series in as an homage to rural radio variety shows, featuring sketch comedy based on radio dramas of the old-time radio era, complete with faux commercials.

The other format, The American Radio Company of the Air , also hosted and created by Keillor, was set in a more urban environment and likewise was based on old-time radio; its short run in the late s eventually morphed into a revival of A Prairie Home Companion. Live from Here , which was established in its current format in and took on its name a year later after losing the rights to the A Prairie Home Companion name, focuses mainly on musical acts. Fox's Osbournes Reloaded , a variety show featuring the family of rocker Ozzy Osbourne , was canceled after only one episode had been telecast in More than two dozen affiliates refused to telecast the first episode of the show.

This series had been slated for a six-episode run. NBC has made repeated attempts at reviving the variety format since the late s its last successful series in this genre, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters , left the network's schedule in A pilot episode for Rosie Live was telecast the day before Thanksgiving Day in and, after receiving middling ratings and extremely poor reviews, was not picked up for its originally planned run in January Like Rosie Live , the broadcast was intended to be a one-off special, but with the possibility of additional episodes depending on its performance.

Starting in the s, some entertainers became associated with variety television specials that would reoccur on a regular basis, in some cases for decades. Many of these were Christmas variety specials, which often showed the star in a set meant to look like their home, welcoming singers and other guests to perform duets of Christmas songs. The popularity of these Christmas shows outlasted that of weekly variety shows.

Though the format faded in popularity in prime time, it thrived in late night. Night-time variety shows eventually evolved into late-night talk shows , which combine variety entertainment primarily comedy and live music with the aspects of a talk show such as interviews with celebrities.

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The Emmy Awards academy considers the two genres to be related closely enough that, until , the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series was open to any of these types of show; in , the academy separated late-night talk shows and sketch comedy series into separate categories. During Johnny Carson 's tenure on The Tonight Show on NBC from to , the show dominated late night ratings, and the other networks attempted late-night talk shows only sporadically. This changed with Carson's retirement, and other networks began to air their own talk show competitors, starting with Late Show with David Letterman on CBS in As of , late-night talk shows vary widely on their resemblance to the original variety format, with Jimmy Fallon 's incarnation of The Tonight Show putting heavy emphasis on sketches and stunts, while shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Richard Bey Show combined the variety show with the tabloid talk show , not only having its guests talk about their problems but also having them participate in absurdist games, and Sally Jesse Raphael was known for occasionally having music and fashion in the show, especially drag and gender-bending performances. The most obvious difference between shows such as Saturday Night Live and traditional variety shows is the lack of a single lead host or hosts and a large ensemble cast.

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SNL has used different guest hosts ever since its inception. Televised talent shows have a variety show element, in that they feature a variety of different acts. Examples of talent shows that feature entertainers from a broad variety of disciplines include Star Search , which had a run in the s in syndication and a run on CBS in the early s during the reality television boom; The Gong Show , which reached its peak in the s but has had occasional revivals since then; and the worldwide Got Talent franchise.

The variety show format also continued in the form of the telethon , which feature variety entertainment often music interspersed with appeals for viewers to make donations to support a charity or cause. The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon was one of the best known telethons in the US, but it too was eventually canceled after several years of shortening originally over 21 hours, by the time of its last telecast in , by which point Lewis had been gone from the telethon several years, it was down to two hours. Another popular telethon, for United Cerebral Palsy , ended its run in shortly after the death of its founder and figurehead, Dennis James.

Likewise, only a handful of long-established local telethons remain. Recent prime time variety shows include the short lived Micallef Tonight and The Sideshow. The real story is far from that simple. Nesler is portrayed as neither a hero nor a criminal, but a woman of many incongruities who was deluded into believing that killing Daniel Driver, the man who molested her son, was what society expected of her. Whether or not Nesler was temporarily insane is debatable, but what Tolkin and the producers manage to successfully convey is the number of lives ruined by this case and the rabid nature of a public hungry for a sense of justice for all the evil done in this world.

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As Nesler, Lahti is strikingly realistic, shedding any kind of Hollywood glamour to play this conflicted and flawed human being. Robert Bockstael as Driver, a clever manipulator of people who hid his perversion behind a Bible, is appropriately menacing and sleazy. Liz Heldens has signed a new multi-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television effective immediately.

The procedural will wrap up following its upcoming seventh season on the broadcaster, which does not currently have a premiere date.

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