Hairspray (1988 film) film version of "Hairspray", an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which included many changes of scripted items from the original. In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for "The Corny Collins Show", a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life "Buddy Deane Show"). Penny is too nervous and stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine, is cut for being black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). However, despite being
The Ricki Lake Show across the United States, and other countries. Though the show was picked up by some stations, the producers were officially waiting for a launch group, with Fox and/or NBC being a possibility. According to the industry trade "TVNewsCheck", "many syndication observers say NBC stations and Fox stations may end up cherry-picking Jeff Probst and Ricki Lake in large TV markets". ("Survivor" host Probst debuted his daytime talk show in September 2012.) On November 8, 2011, Twentieth announced that 11 of Tribune Broadcasting's stations picked up the show, with WPIX/New York City using the show to replace "Anderson", which it lost