I suppose I could see that. BTW, while doing a quick search for a good image to use I scanned quickly Tierney's biography on the official NBC "ER" website, which begins
Maura Tierney, a familiar face to television viewers after her four-year role as newswriter Lisa Miller on NBC's critically acclaimed comedy "NewsRadio,"....
"NewsRadio" ran for five years. It ran for five years on NBC. This is just sad. It does, however, confirm once again that great sitcom's status as the Peter Davison of American television shows.
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Actually, it did run for four years, but five seasons. The first season was only seven episodes, beginning in March 1995, and going off the air in May 1999.
Okay, that's not quite so sad then. Fortunately, there are still plenty of reasons for NewsRadio fans to hate NBC...
While they never allowed it to find its audience by constantly move it around, the fact that they kept it around as long as it did shows that they knew it was quality. Besides, there was no way the show could have survived another season without Hartman. That hurt the show more than anything NBC could have done. Lovitz was just not up to the task.
I suppose that's supportable but I still would have liked at least one more season to see if the "Jimmy buys a farm" re-invention of the series could've worked.
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