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Not Necessarily the
News
(1983 -1990)Stuart
Pankin, Anne Bloom, Mitchell Laurance, Danny
Breen, Lucy Webb
Produced by: John
Moffitt, Pat Tourk Lee, Matt Neuman
Written by: Matt
Neuman, Lane Sarasohn, Larry Arnstein, David
Hurwitz (and many others)
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| "Most
Consistently Funny Series (Not
Necessarily on Cable): 'Not Necessarily
the News' (HBO)." |
| - TV Guide
Award, TV
Guide Review |
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| "The
funniest show on television is not on
commercial TV - it's on HBO. It's title?
'Not Necessarily the News.' An
irreverent, topical, hilariously funny
program." |
| - Kay Gardella,
N.Y.
Daily News |
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| "'NNTN'
has always been one of TV's funniest
shows (often more consistently funny than
'SNL') and a rare TV venue for slashing
political satire." |
| - Howard
Rosenberg, L.A. Times |
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| "HBO
keeps satire burning in TV vacuum.
Consistently amusing, 'Not Necessarily
the News' has won more awards than any
other show on pay-cable television." |
| - Clifford
Terry, Chicago
Tribune |
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| In 1986
"NNTN" won the award for "Best
Television Comedy" at the Banff
International Television Festival. In presenting
the award, the judges declared, "For its
willingness to make fun of the rich and powerful,
rather than the weak and disadvantaged; for its
imaginative and irreverent use of film; and,
above all, for its cheerful ability to use the
television industry's sharpest tools against
television itself, this award goes to "Not
Necessarily the News." |
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