LateLine

This article is about the American 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
Composer	Mat Morse
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	19 (7 unaired)
Production
Executive producers	Al Franken John Markus
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Markus-Franken Productions Paramount Television
Original release
Network	NBC Showtime
Release	March 17, 1998 (1998-03-17) – March 16, 1999 (1999-03-16)

LateLine is an American sitcom television series 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 the unaired episodes 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.

Cast

• Al Franken as Al Freundlich
• Megyn Price as Gale Ingersoll
• Miguel Ferrer as Vic Kobb
• Ajay Naidu as Raji Bakshi
• Sanaa Lathan as Briana Gilliam
• Catherine Lloyd Burns as Mona
• Robert Foxworth as Pearce McKenzie

Episode list

Season 1: 1998

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Prod. code
1	1	"Pilot"	Andy Ackerman	Al Franken & John Markus	March 17, 1998 (1998-03-17)	001
2	2	"Al Anonymous"	Unknown	Unknown	March 24, 1998 (1998-03-24)	002
3	3	"Gale Gets a Life"	Unknown	Unknown	March 31, 1998 (1998-03-31)	004
4	4	"Buddy Hackett"	Andy Ackerman	Story by : Steve Lookner Teleplay by : Al Franken & John Markus & Earl Pomerantz	April 7, 1998 (1998-04-07)	003
5	5	"Pearce's New Best Friend"	Ken Levine	Al Franken & John Markus & Earl Pomerantz	April 14, 1998 (1998-04-14)	006
6	6	"Lawyer, Lawyer"	Jay Sandrich	Al Franken & John Markus & Earl Pomerantz	April 21, 1998 (1998-04-21)	005

Season 2: 1999

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Prod. code
7	1	"Pearce on Conan"	Unknown	Unknown	January 6, 1999 (1999-01-06)	010
8	2	"Protecting the Source"	Unknown	Unknown	January 13, 1999 (1999-01-13)	009
9	3	"The Minister of Television"	Unknown	Unknown	January 14, 1999 (1999-01-14)	017
10	4	"Kids 'N' Guns"	Unknown	Unknown	January 20, 1999 (1999-01-20)	013
11	5	"Svadharma"	Unknown	Unknown	January 27, 1999 (1999-01-27)	007
12	6	"Karp's Night Out"	Unknown	Unknown	March 16, 1999 (1999-03-16)	012
13	7	"The Christian Guy"	TBD	TBD	*	008
14	8	"Mona Moves Up"	TBD	TBD	*	011
15	9	"Error Apparent"	TBD	TBD	*	014
16	10	"Requiem for a Horse"	TBD	TBD	*	015
17	11	"The Negotiator"	TBD	TBD	*	016
18	12	"Eine Kleine Office Problem"	TBD	TBD	*	018
19	13	"The Seventh Plague"	TBD	TBD	*	019

* Not aired on NBC

Home media

On August 17, 2004, Paramount released a DVD set containing all nineteen episodes on three discs.

External links

• LateLine at IMDb
• LateLine at epguides.com