NewsRadio

1990s tv sitcom

New York radio station WNYX has everything that is needed to be successful - devoted employees, manager full of ideas and stinking rich owner Jimmy James. Unfortunately employees compete with each other, manager lacks experience and the owner is... eccentric to say the least.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld comedy series based on the events from his life, now shows how his life really looks like. More or less real life since most of the scenes were improvised by the actors.

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Dweebs

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Ed

6.8

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Ed Stevens, a lawyer in New York City firm, after finding his wife in bed with mailman decides to change his lie. He moves back to his hometown - Stuckeyville - and opens his own legal practice in bowling alley that he bought.

Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

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Reginald Perrin is frustrated sales manager at Sunshine Desserts company runned by eccentric CJ. Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and realises that suicide is the only solution. But finds out that there is another way...

Hot Metal

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The misadventures of staff in small law company Lotus, Spackman & Phelps, where every employee is quite a character, but not necessarily in a good sense of that expression.

Just Shoot Me!

7.6

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Lateline

4.0

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Less Than Perfect

4.8

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Mythic Quest

6.0

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Night Court

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The Smoking Room

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American Dad!

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Stan Smith is a CIA agent, but this does not mean he can’t be a good father and loving husband. It only means that he has an alien as lodger and from time to time he has to leave early to blow something up.

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Bottom

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Edward and Richard are sharing flat in Hammersmith. Both unemployed they find peace and comfort in smashing things into pieces.

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Family Guy

6.4

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Father Ted

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Green Wing

8.0

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Hale and Pace

8.4

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Another of the great British comedy duos - Gareth Hale and Norman Pace - kept their show for 10 years and still they decided to stop, which is remarkable for sketch-based show.

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Johnny Bravo has his own style. Actually it is not his own style, it is rather mixture of Elvis Presley and Casanova, but without the charm or sophistication.

Lab Rats

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8.4

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My Name is Earl

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Nightingales

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Robot Chicken

4.4

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Sarah Silverman Program

4.0

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The Simpsons

7.6

10110

The Simpsons - average family in an average American city of Springfield, living not at all average life.