Liocracy | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Written by | [various] |
Directed by | Ron Murphy Alan Resnick |
Starring | Leslie Nielsen |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Greg Jones, Janice Evans |
Production locations | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | The Comedy Network |
Release | 21 April 2001 1 February 2003 | –
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Liocracy was a Canadian mockumentary comedy television series, which aired on The Comedy Network in 2001 and 2002.[1]
The show, a spoof of biographical documentary series such as Biography or Life and Times, starred Leslie Nielsen as host Terrence Brynne McKennie.[2] Each episode presented a Biography-type profile of a fictional person loosely based on a real-life personality.
The first episode centred on "Fiendly Giant", a Friendly Giant–like children's television host with a penchant for sadomasochism who became a pariah after being caught having sex with his rooster sidekick Rudy.[3] Later episodes focused on Anne Surly, a serial killer indirectly based on Lucy Maud Montgomery and her Anne of Green Gables novels; Simon Duke, a horror novelist who was a spoof of Stephen King; Rachel Lange, a soap opera diva; Boyz 'r Us, a pop music boy band; and the on-again off-again romance of Hollywood acting icons Richard Button and Elizabeth Paladoro.[4]
Filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the show was created by Ian Johnston and Peter Hays, two former journalists for the Halifax Daily News.[5]
The show was titled Liography in its first season, but was changed to Liocracy in the second season after the A&E Network, the producers of the original Biography series, threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit.[6] The second season premiered in November 2002, and ran for 13 episodes into early 2003. The series was not renewed for a third season.