S01E01 NBC Show 1(Pilot)
NAFTA TV Nation travels to Mexico to take advantage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and make the show with cheaper labor and maximize profits, just like GM and Converse. Taxi New Yorkers know...
TV Nation
S01E07: Gun Night
Gun Night: TV Nation correspondents join the ranks of Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Howard Stern and Congressmen's wives -- and pack heat! We exercise our right to not only bear arms, but to shoot them too! Neighbors: Do you know your neighbors' names? Do you know what they do for a living? Do you know if they are serial killers? TV Nation sends a serial killer to a typical suburban neighborhood to see what the neighborhood knows. NY/NJ Grease: TV Nation uses its leverage to get tax breaks for running its operation in New York City by threatening to move to New Jersey. We go right to the top - New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani - to see what we can get. Talk Show: TV Nation attempts to answer the commonly asked question: Where exactly do those people on daytime talk shows come from?
Overview
TV Nation is a satirical newsmagazine television series written, directed and hosted by Michael Moore that was co-funded and originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and BBC2 in the United Kingdom. The show blended humor and journalism into provocative reports about various issues. After moving to Fox for its second season, the show won an Emmy Award in 1995 for Outstanding Informational Series.
TV Nation was created in the wake of the success Moore had with the documentary Roger & Me, prompting Warner Bros. television to ask Moore for television series ideas. In January 1993 NBC green-lit a pilot episode which took three months to complete. Interest from the BBC prompted NBC to insert the show into its summer 1994 lineup.
Episodes
S01E02 NBC Show 2
CEO Challenge TV Nation challenges the CEO's of major corporations to perform some simple tasks using their company's products in order to justify their huge salaries. We ask the chairman of IBM to format a...
S01E03 NBC Show 3
Dr. Death We all know what Dr. Jack Kervorkian does for a living, but did you ever wonder what he does in his spare time? TV Nation finds out by visiting him at his home...
S01E04 Product Placement Night
O.J./Product Placement Night Have you noticed all of the free advertising companies have been getting from the extensive coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial? McDonald's. The Mezzaluna. White Ford Broncos. TV Nation jumps on the...
S01E05 TV Nation Day
TV Nation Day TV Nation and the citizens of Fishkill, NY celebrate and wait for August 16, 1994 to be declared officially by Congress as ""TV Nation Day."" Millennium There are over 2,500 groups in...
S01E07 Gun Night
Gun Night: TV Nation correspondents join the ranks of Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Howard Stern and Congressmen's wives -- and pack heat! We exercise our right to not only bear arms, but to shoot them...
S01E08 Golf Night
Golf Night TV Nation elicits the help of golf pro Rodger Jabara for hints on how to improve the show— and that terrible slice. Caning What was the British Empire built on? According to some...
S01E09 1994 Year End Special
Jacuzzi: Throughout the show TV Nation gives jacuzzi limousine rides to members of the most hated groups in America including landlords, telemarketers, and satanists. Corp Aid: We have all heard of Live Aid and Farm...
Cast
Michael Moore
Himself
Janeane Garofalo
Karen Duffy
Herself
Jonathan Katz
Rusty Cundieff
Louis Theroux
Himself
