sex and the city is the longest-running scripted primetime tv series in the us.
sex and the city is the longest-running scripted primetime tv series in the us.
what is the longest-running scripted primetime tv series in the us?
sex and the city
at the start of the 1989–90 television season, fox added a third night of programming, on mondays. the season heralded the start of a turnaround for fox. it saw the debut of a midseason replacement series, "the simpsons", an animated series that originated as a series of shorts on "the tracey ullman show"; ranked at a three-way tie for 29th place in the nielsen ratings, it became a breakout hit and was the first fox series to break the top 30. "the simpsons", at 30 years as of 2018, is the longest-running american sitcom, the longest-running american animated program, and in 2009, it surpassed "gunsmoke" as the longest-running american scripted primetime television series. that year, fox also first introduced the documentary series "cops" and crime-focused magazine program "america's most wanted" (the latter of which debuted as a half-hour series as part of the network's mainly comedy-based sunday lineup for its first season, before expanding to an hour and moving to fridays for the 1990–91 season). these two series, which would become staples on the network for just over two decades, would eventually be paired to form the nucleus of fox's saturday night schedule beginning in the 1994–95 season. meanwhile, "married... with children" – which broke ground from other family sitcoms of the period as it centered on a dysfunctional lower-middle-class family, whose patriarch often openly loathed his failures and being saddled with a wife and two children – saw viewer interest substantially increase beginning in its third season after, in an ironic twist, michigan homemaker terry rakolta lodged a boycott to force fox to cancel the series after objecting to risque humor and sexual content featured in a 1989 episode. "married..."s newfound success led it to become the network's longest-running live-action sitcom, airing for 11 seasons.
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ncis is an american action police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the naval criminal investigative service. the concept and characters were initially introduced in two episodes of the cbs series "jag" (season eight episodes 20 and 21: "ice queen" and "meltdown"). the show, a spin-off from "jag", premiered on september 23, 2003, on cbs. to date it has aired sixteen full seasons and has gone into broadcast syndication on the usa network. donald p. bellisario and don mcgill are co-creators and executive producers of the premiere member of the "ncis" franchise. as of 2019, it is the second-longest-running scripted, non-animated u.s. primetime tv series currently airing, surpassed only by "" (1999–present), and is the 7th-longest-running scripted u.s. primetime tv series overall.
ncis (tv series)