Taxi (TV series)

Taxi

Created by	James L. Brooks Stan Daniels David Davis Ed. Weinberger
Starring	Judd Hirsch Jeff Conaway (seasons 1 to mid-4) (guest season mid-4) Danny DeVito Marilu Henner Tony Danza Andy Kaufman Randall Carver (season 1) Christopher Lloyd (guest seasons 1 to mid-2) (seasons mid-2 to 5) Carol Kane (guest seasons 2, 4) (season 5)
Theme music composer	Bob James
Opening theme	"Angela"
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	114 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	24 minutes
Production company(s)	John Charles Walters Company Paramount Network Television
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution The Program Exchange
Release
Original network	ABC (1978–1982) NBC (1982–1983)
Original release	September 12, 1978 – June 15, 1983

Taxi is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1978 to May 6, 1982 and on NBC from September 30, 1982 to June 15, 1983. The series—which won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for Outstanding Comedy Series—focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher. Taxi was produced by the John Charles Walters Company, in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis, and Ed Weinberger.

Premise and themes

The show focuses on the employees of the fictional Sunshine Cab Company, and its principal setting is the company's fleet garage in Manhattan. Among the drivers, only Alex Reiger, who is disillusioned with life, considers cab driving his profession. The others view it as a temporary job. Elaine Nardo is a single mother working as a receptionist at an art gallery. Tony Banta is a boxer with a losing record. Bobby Wheeler is a struggling actor. John Burns (written out of the show after the first season) is working his way through college. All take pity on "Reverend Jim" Ignatowski, an aging hippie minister, who is burnt out from drugs, so they help him become a cabbie. The characters also included Latka Gravas, their innocent, wide-eyed mechanic from an unnamed foreign country, and Louie De Palma, the despotic dispatcher.

A number of episodes involve a character having an opportunity to realize his or her dream to move up in the world, only to see it yanked away. Otherwise, the cabbies deal on a daily basis with their unsatisfying lives and with Louie DePalma's abusive behavior and contempt (despite being a former cab driver himself). Louie's assistant, Jeff Bennett, is rarely heard from at first, but his role increases in later seasons.

Despite the zany humor of the show, Taxi often tackled such dramatic issues as racism, drug addiction, single parenthood, blindness, obesity, animal abuse, bisexuality, teenage runaways, divorce, nuclear war, sexual harassment, premenstrual mood disorders, gambling addiction, and the loss of a loved one.

Cast

Actor	Role	Years	Seasons
Judd Hirsch	Alex Reiger	1978–1983	1–5
Danny DeVito	Louie De Palma
Marilu Henner	Elaine O'Connor Nardo
Tony Danza	Anthony Mark "Tony" Banta
Andy Kaufman	Latka Gravas
Christopher Lloyd	Reverend Jim 'Iggy' Ignatowski	1978–1983	1 (guest), 2 (guest, then star), 3–5 (star)
Jeff Conaway	Bobby Wheeler	1978–1982	1-4 (star), 4 (guest)
Randall Carver	John Burns	1978–1979	1
Carol Kane	Simka Gravas	1980–1983	2 (guest), 4 (guest), 5 (star)
J. Alan Thomas	Jeff Bennett	1978–1983	1–5 (supporting)
T.J. Castronova	Tommy Jeffries (Bartender At Mario's)	1979–1983	1–5 (supporting)
Rhea Perlman	Zena Sherman / Louie's girlfriend	1978–1983	1–5 (guest star)

Main cast

Cast of the debut season (ABC, 1978–79). From left to right: (back) Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch; (middle) Andy Kaufman, Jeff Conaway, Tony Danza; (front) Randall Carver, Danny DeVito

Cast of the final season (NBC, 1982–83). From left to right: (back) Kaufman, Carol Kane, DeVito, Hirsch; (front) Danza, Henner, Christopher Lloyd

Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch) – Alex is the patient, brave, level-headed core of the show, the one everyone else turns to for advice. At one point, he reveals his anxiety with this unwanted burden. He once worked in an office, with a good chance of advancement, but lost his job owing to his refusal to follow the company line. He was married to Phyllis Bornstein (Louise Lasser), and when she divorced him because of his lack of ambition she sought sole custody of their baby daughter, Cathy. He gave in rather than fight it. He is also estranged from his lothario father, Joe (Jack Gilford). Alex is a recovered compulsive gambler, although he relapses in one episode. A deadpan cynic, he has resigned himself to driving a cab for the rest of his life.
Robert L. "Bobby" Wheeler (Jeff Conaway) (1978–1981, recurring 1981–1982) – Bobby is an arrogant, narcissist actor whose flamboyance is Louie's favourite target. Success eludes Bobby as a struggling actor. Once, he is signed up by a famous manager, but it turns out she does not want to represent him; she only wants him as a lover. Another time he is cast in a pilot for a soap opera called Boise. The show goes into production, but his part is recast. Conaway left the show after Season 3, but made guest appearances in Season 4. On The Howard Stern Show, Taxi writer Sam Simon said that when Conaway was absent during the production of one episode, his dialogue was reassigned to the other cast members who delivered the jokes as well or better, which made the producers realize that Conaway was expendable.^[1]
Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito) – The head dispatcher for the Sunshine Cab Company, Louie spends his time holding court inside the caged-in dispatch office at the garage and arguing with the drivers. He not only lacks in morals, he is openly proud of his misdemeanours. Louie will do anything to benefit himself, from taking advantage of a drunken friend of his on, off girlfriend Zena Sherman (played by DeVito's real-life wife Rhea Perlman) to gambling with a young boy to stealing from the company to even spying on Elaine while she is changing (almost costing him his job). He lives with his mother (DeVito's real mother, Julia, in two episodes). On very rare occasions he helps his workers, as in the episode in which a cruel hairstylist (played by Ted Danson) gives Elaine a garish makeover just before a very important event, it is Louie who bolsters her confidence to confront him. In 1999, TV Guide ranked De Palma first on its list of the 50 greatest TV characters of all time.^[2]
Elaine O'Connor Nardo (Marilu Henner) – Elaine is a divorced mother of two, struggling to cope while trying to realize her ambitions in the field of fine art. The object of lust of Louie, she is attracted to characters played by actors ranging from Tom Selleck to Wallace Shawn. The last name for the character was taken from Patricia Nardo, a scriptwriter, former secretary, and close friend of Taxi co-creator James L. Brooks.^[3]
Anthony Mark "Tony" Banta (Tony Danza) – The kind-hearted, slow-witted, boxer has little success in the sport. (Danza had been a professional boxer.) In fact, Louie makes a lot of money betting against him. (When Banta makes a conscious decision to throw a fight, Louie decided to bet on Banta because the only way Banta can remain a loser in such a situation is to win.) Finally, the boxing commission takes away his license because he has been knocked out one too many times. In the final season, Tony is introduced to new girlfriend Vicki (Anne De Salvo) by Simka. He and Vicki have a falling out after she becomes pregnant by him, but reconcile and get married. The last name for the character was taken from Gloria Banta, a scriptwriter and close friend of Taxi co-creator James L. Brooks.^[4]
Reverend Jim Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd) (guest star 1978, main cast 1979–1983) – A washed-up figure of the 1960s, Jim lives in a world of his own. He was once a diligent, mature student at Harvard University, with an extremely wealthy father (Victor Buono), but one bite of a drug-laden brownie was enough to get him hooked and send him into a downward spiral. (His last name had been Caldwell; he changed it to Ignatowski, thinking that the backward pronunciation of that name was "Star Child".) In a particularly memorable episode, the cabbies help him pass a written exam to become one of them. He occasionally exhibits unexpected talents, such as the ability to play the piano masterfully, much to his own surprise. TV Guide placed Ignatowski 32nd on its list of the 50 greatest TV characters.
Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman) – Latka is an immigrant from a strange foreign land, often speaking in his foreign tongue (actually composed of gibberish, often using invented phrases such as "ibi da" or "nik nik"), but when speaking English he speaks with a very heavy accent. He works as a mechanic, fixing the taxis. Latka was an adaptation of Kaufman's "Foreign Man" character, which he originated in his stage act. In this act, "Foreign Man" claimed to be from Caspiar, an island (which does not actually exist) in the Caspian Sea. Kaufman, feeling that he had lost creative control over the character he had created, eventually grew tired of the gag, leading the writers to give Latka multiple personality disorder. This allowed Kaufman to play other characters, the most frequent being a repellent, smooth-talking lounge-lizard persona calling himself Vic Ferrari. In one episode, Latka becomes Alex, with profound insights into "his" life. Just as he is about to reveal to the real Alex the perfect solution for all his problems, he reverts to Latka.
Simka Dahblitz-Gravas (Carol Kane) (recurring 1980–1982, starring 1982–1983) – She is from the same country as Latka. They belong to different ethnic groups which traditionally detest each other, but they fall in love and eventually get married. She is much more assertive than her husband, often standing up to Louie for him.
John Burns (Randall Carver) (1978–1979) – The naive young man works as a cabbie to pay for college, where he is working towards a degree in forestry. According to Carver, "...the characters of John Burns and Tony Banta were too similar.... Some of the lines were almost interchangeable...,"^[5] so he was dropped after the first season without explanation. The premiere episode, "Like Father, Like Daughter," established that John started working for the cab company after he was a passenger in Alex's cab. John did not have change, so he had to ride with Alex to the garage to pay him. Once there, he started hanging around and eventually applied for a job. In the episode "The Great Line," he spontaneously marries a woman named Suzanne.

Recurring guest cast

Jeff Bennett (J. Alan Thomas) – Sunshine Cab's assistant dispatcher, he shares the "cage" with Louie but rarely speaks or interacts with the other characters. A quiet African-American man with an afro, Jeff appears throughout the show's run, initially as a background performer, but as the series progresses he gradually becomes more of a featured supporting player; his evolution culminates in a memorable storyline in the Season 5 episode "Crime and Punishment", in which Louie falsely accuses Jeff of stealing car parts from the company and selling them on the black market—a crime which Louie himself committed. Thomas appeared as himself in the 1999 film Man on the Moon.^[6]
Tommy Jeffries (T.J. Castronova) – The bartender and waiter at Mario's, the restaurant where the group often hangs out. Tommy is pretty friendly with the group, taking an interest in their personal lives.
Zena Sherman (Rhea Perlman) (1979–1982) – She begins a romantic relationship with Louie (played by Perlman's real-life husband DeVito), but marries someone else after they break up.
Greta Gravas (Susan Kellermann) (1979–1982) – Latka's mother. She has a short fling with Alex, which causes friction with Latka.
Phyllis Bornstein-Consuelos (Louise Lasser) (1980–1982) – Alex's ex-wife, with whom he had a daughter. Phyllis became fed up with his lack of ambition and remarried, but they remain strongly attracted to each other.
Cathy (Talia Balsam) (1978–1980) – Phyllis and Alex's daughter. Phyllis and Alex divorced while Cathy was a baby. In the first episode of the series, Alex drives a long way to meet her, now on her way to college in Portugal, for the first time since then and in a later episode attends Cathy's wedding.

Guest stars

Among the many guest stars, Ruth Gordon won an Emmy Award for her guest portrayal of Dee Wilcox in "Sugar Mama" (1979), and Eileen Brennan was nominated for an Emmy for her guest portrayal of Mrs. McKenzie in "Thy Boss's Wife" (1981). Actresses Marcia Wallace and Penny Marshall, psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, cookie entrepreneur Wally "Famous" Amos, newscaster Edwin Newman, and boxing referee Jimmy Lennon portray themselves in separate episodes. George Wendt and Ted Danson, who appear in separate episodes, went on to star in primary Taxi director Jim Burrows' next series, Cheers. Tom Selleck also had a memorable guest appearance, constituting one of the memorable fares of Cab 804, while Tom Hanks portrayed Reverend Jim's college roommate in the flashback episode "The Road Not Taken, Part 1."

Then WBC Welterweight Champion Carlos Palomino appeared in the episode "One-Punch Banta" as himself (season 1, episode 2, original air date September 19, 1978). Allan Arbus, famous for his role as US Army Psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman in M*A*S*H, played his manager in the episode. Martial artist and professional wrestler Gene LeBell played himself in multiple episodes as the referee for Tony Banta's boxing matches.

Episodes

Main article: List of Taxi episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	22	September 12, 1978	May 15, 1979	ABC
	2	24	September 11, 1979	May 13, 1980
	3	20	November 19, 1980	May 21, 1981
	4	24	October 18, 1981	May 6, 1982
	5	24	September 30, 1982	June 15, 1983	NBC

Ratings and timeslots

Season	Timeslot	Rank	Rating
1) 1978–79	Tuesday at 9:30 P.M.	#9	24.9
2) 1979–80	Tuesday at 9:30 P.M.	#13	22.4
3) 1980–81	Wednesday at 9:00 P.M.	Not in the Top 30
4) 1981–82	Thursday at 9:30 P.M.	Not in the Top 30
5) 1982–83	Thursday at 9:30 P.M. (fall) Saturday at 9:30 P.M. (winter)	Not rated^[7]

Taxi did not receive a season Nielsen rating in the 1982-83 season "due to (an)... oversight by CBS's research staff".^[7]

Awards and nominations

Taxi is one of television's most lauded shows. During its run, the sitcom was nominated for 31 Emmy Awards and won 18, including three for Outstanding Comedy Series. It was also nominated for 25 Golden Globes, with four wins (three for Best TV Series – Musical/Comedy). In 1979, it received the Humanitas Prize in the 30 minute category. It was also ranked 48th in TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 1997, two of the show's episodes, "Latka the Playboy" and "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey" were respectively ranked #19 and #63 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.^[8] In 2013, the series was ranked #35 on TV Guide's 60 Best Series of All Time.^[9]

Awards

Emmy Awards:

Comedy Series (1979–1981)
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Judd Hirsch (1981, 1983)
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series – Ruth Gordon (1979)
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Carol Kane (1982)
Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Carol Kane (1983)
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Danny DeVito (1981)
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Christopher Lloyd (1982, 1983)
Directing in a Comedy Series – James Burrows (1980, 1981)
Writing in a Comedy Series – Michael J. Leeson (1981)
Writing in a Comedy Series – Ken Estin (1982)
Film Editing for a Series – M. Pam Blumenthal (1979–81), Jack Michon (1981)

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Television Series-Comedy (1979–1981), tied in 1980 with Alice
Best TV Supporting Actor – Danny DeVito (1980), tied with Vic Tayback in Alice

Additional nominations

Emmy Awards:

Comedy Series (1982, 1983)
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Judd Hirsch (1979, 1980, 1982)
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series – Eileen Brennan (1981)
Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Danny DeVito (1979, 1982, 1983)
Directing in a Comedy Series – James Burrows (1982)
Writing in a Comedy Series – Michael J. Leeson (1979)
Writing in a Comedy Series – Glen Charles and Les Charles (1980, 1981)
Writing in a Comedy Series – David Lloyd (1981)
Writing in a Comedy Series – Barry Kemp and Holly Holmberg Brooks (1982)
Writing in a Comedy Series – Ken Estin (1983)

Golden Globe Awards:

Television Series-Comedy (1982–1984)
Actor in a TV Series-Comedy – Judd Hirsch (1979–1983)
TV Supporting Actress – Marilu Henner (1979–1983)
TV Supporting Actress – Carol Kane (1983)
TV Supporting Actor – Tony Danza (1980)
TV Supporting Actor – Danny DeVito (1979, 1981, 1982)
TV Supporting Actor – Jeff Conaway (1979, 1980)
TV Supporting Actor – Andy Kaufman (1979, 1981)

Production

Taxi was inspired by the non-fiction article "Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet" by Mark Jacobson, which appeared in the September 22, 1975 issue of New York magazine.^[10] This article helped suggest the idea for the show to James L. Brooks and David Davis, though nothing from the article was used directly.^[11] The article was a profile of several drivers who worked the night shift for a New York cab company.

The series was produced on Stage 23 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, from July 5, 1978, to February 18, 1983.

When the series was cancelled by ABC, it seemed for a time that the premium cable television network HBO would pick up the series. When it did not, the series was picked up by NBC, which at first kept it on at its ABC time slot of Thursday 9:30 p.m following the first season of Cheers.^[12]

Opening sequence

The opening titles show a cab driving east across the Queensboro Bridge. The footage originally was intended as a "bridge" between scenes and is only about fifteen seconds long; parts of it are repeated to fill the opening.

The external establishing shot of the Sunshine Cab Company was of an actual taxi garage and gas station located on Charles and Hudson streets in New York's West Village; the Twin Towers can be seen in the background on various establishing shots of the garage. The building has since been demolished, and an apartment building and a Rite Aid pharmacy went up on the site.^[13]

Theme music

Bob James wrote the opening theme, "Angela", which had been intended for a sequence in episode #3 ("Blind Date"). The producers liked this slower, more melancholy tune better than the up-tempo opening theme they had chosen ("Touchdown"). Both songs are on James' 1978 album, Touchdown.

In 1983, James released The Genie, an LP containing much of the incidental music he had written for Taxi during its run.

Cast reunions

Danny DeVito hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live soon after Taxi was canceled after the fourth season. During the opening monologue, DeVito read a letter supposedly from his mother asking God to forgive ABC for cancelling the show, adding that "but I'll understand if you don't." A filmed bit had him driving around New York looking morose until inspiration strikes, and he blows up the ABC building. In addition, the Taxi cast members were given an opportunity for closure, which up to that point had been denied them due to the abrupt cancellation. The actors took their "final" bows during DeVito's opening monologue, only to have NBC (which aired SNL) pick up the show.

Decades later, most of the cast returned to play their younger selves and briefly re-enact scenes for the Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon. Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Jeff Conaway, Carol Kane, Randall Carver, J. Alan Thomas and Christopher Lloyd all reprised their roles. The only two living members of the Taxi cast who did not reprise their roles were Danny DeVito, who produced and co-starred in the film as Kaufman's manager George Shapiro, and Tony Danza, who at the time of filming was performing in A View from the Bridge on Broadway.^[14]

Several of the surviving cast members (along with surviving cast members from other Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart vehicles) reunited in different roles for an episode of the Judd Hirsch/Bob Newhart series George & Leo.

In January 2009, Danny DeVito made mention of wanting to make a Taxi reunion movie.^[15]^[16]^[17]

DVD releases

All five seasons of Taxi have been released from Paramount Home Entertainment. The first three seasons of Taxi were released on DVD in Region 1 between 2004 and 2005. It took almost four years until Paramount released The Fourth Season on September 22, 2009, and The (Fifth &) Final Season on December 22, 2009 (the last two seasons were released through CBS Home Entertainment). As of October 2014, all seasons have been released in Region 2 [Germany].

On November 11, 2014, CBS Home Entertainment released Taxi- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. All 114 episodes are featured on a 17-disc collection for the first time.^[18]

DVD Name	Ep #	Release dates
DVD Name	Ep #	Region 1	Region 2
The Complete First Season	22	October 12, 2004	April 28, 2008
The Complete Second Season	24	February 1, 2005	February 9, 2009
The Complete Third Season	20	September 13, 2005	TBA
The Fourth Season	24	September 22, 2009	TBA
The (Fifth &) Final Season	24	December 22, 2009	TBA
The Complete Series	114	November 11, 2014	TBA

Footnotes

↑ "MarksFriggin.com - Stern Show News - Archive". marksfriggin.com. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
↑ "Danny Devito: Biography". TV Guide. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
↑ Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, pg 242
↑ Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made Them by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, pg 242
↑ Jeff Sorensen, The Taxi Book, St. Martin's Press, 1987, p. 39.
↑ Willis, J.; Monush, B. (2000). John Willis' Screen World. 51. Applause Books. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
1 2 "20 Apr 1983, Page 18 - The Akron Beacon Journal at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
↑ "Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28 – July 4). 1997. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ TV Guide Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time
↑ Mark Jacobson (September 22, 1975). "Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet". New York.
↑ Jeff Sorensen, The Taxi Book, St. Martin's Press, 1987, p. 3.
↑ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 1174. ISBN 0-345-45542-8.
↑ "Google street view".
↑ ""Man On The Moon" shoot starts". 8 August 1998. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
↑ "Danny Devito—Devito Calls For Taxi Movie". Contactmusic.com.
↑ "Danny DeVito Calls For 'Taxi' Movie". Starpulse Entertainment News.
↑ "A 'Taxi' Reunion?". Extra.
↑ CBS/Paramount Hails a Complete Series DVD Set for the First Time Ever!

References

Lovece, Frank, with Franco, Jules. Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show. New York: Prentice Hall, 1988. Reissued as Taxi: The Official Fan's Guide. New York: Citadel, 1996. ISBN 0-8065-1801-4. SBN-13: 978-0806518015.

External links

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Roseanne, season 4/season 5 (1992)
Seinfeld, season 4/season 5 (1993)
Frasier, season 1/season 2 & Mad About You (1994)
Cybill (1995)
3rd Rock from the Sun, season 1/season 2 (1996)
Ally McBeal, season 1 (1997)
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Extras (2007)
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Glee, season 1 (2009)
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1990s debuts	3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) Boston Common (1996–1997) Caroline in the City (1995–1999) ER (1994–2009) Ferris Bueller (1990–1991) Fired Up (1997–1998) Frasier (1993–2004) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996) Friends (1994–2004) Grand (1990) Hope and Gloria (1995–1996) Jesse (1998–2000) Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003) Mad About You (1992–1999) Madman of the People (1994–1995) The Naked Truth (1996–1998) Out All Night (1992–1993) Rhythm & Blues (1992) The Single Guy (1995–1997) Stark Raving Mad (1999–2000) Suddenly Susan (1999–2000) Union Square (1997–1998) Veronica's Closet (1997–2000) Will & Grace (1998–2006) Wings (1990–1997)

2000s debuts	30 Rock (2006–2013) Andy Barker, P.I. (2007) The Apprentice (2004–present) Battery Park (2000) Community (2009–2014) Coupling (2003) Cursed (2000–2001) Daddio (2000) Deal or No Deal (2005–2009) Four Kings (2006) Good Morning, Miami (2002–2004) Inside Schwartz (2001–2002) The Jay Leno Show (2009–2010) Joey (2004–2006) Kath & Kim (2008–2009) Leap of Faith (2002) Lipstick Jungle (2008–2009) My Name Is Earl (2005–2009) The Office (2005–2013) Parks and Recreation (2009–2015) Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday (2008–present) Scrubs (2001–2008) Southland (2009) The Tracy Morgan Show (2003–2004)

2010s debuts	1600 Penn (2012–2013) Allegiance (2015) Awake (2012) Do No Harm (2013) Go On (2012–2013) Love Bites (2011) The Marriage Ref (2010–2011) The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–2014) Outsourced (2010) The Paul Reiser Show (2010–2011) Parenthood (2010–2015) Perfect Couples (2010–2011) Prime Suspect (2011–2012) Rock Center with Brian Williams (2011–2013) Save Me (2013) Sean Saves the World (2013–2014) Undateable (2014–2016) Up All Night (2011–2012) Welcome to Sweden (2014–2015) Welcome to the Family (2013) Whitney (2011–2013)

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