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Nightline meets
The Mary Tyler Moore Show in Lateline, an ensemble TV sitcom about a late-night news-and-issues series with a show-within-a-show format, incorporating real-life guests and using digital time updates and video to contrast "on-air" scenes with the filmed footage of the main story. Al Freundlich (
Al Franken) is a correspondent on the latenight Lateline, a series headed by the somewhat sinister executive producer Vic Karp (
Miguel Ferrer), with the help of sharp producer Gale Ingersoll (
Megyn Price), assistant Mona (Catherine Lloyd Burns), witty guest booker Briana (
Sanaa Lathan), intern Raji (Ajay Naidu), and anchorman Pearce McKenzie (
Robert Foxworth).
Al Franken (
Saturday Night Live) and John Markus (
Cosby Show) are the creators and executive producers, with Andy Ackerman (
Seinfeld) producing and directing.
Variety praised
Lateline as "sly, edgy, spirited, charmingly cynical and populated by a bevy of lovable eccentrics who don't treat a punch line like a medicine ball." Premiered March 17, 1998 on NBC. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide