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It was a very slow week for TV premieres as we head into the holiday season. A 1953 political talk show is long forgotten. 1993 gave the world — briefly — a former sports star turned cooking appliance pitchman in his own sitcom. 2003 had the most notable series, an animated program set in a very popular sci-fi universe. 2013’s most notable series was a reality show that’s almost as forgotten as that 1953 talk show. Check out the list of TV premiered below and tell us if you remember any of these series.
1953
- November 11 – Answers for Americans (One season, network and episode count unknown)
1963
- No new series premiered this week in 1963.
1973
- No new series premiered this week in 1973.
1983
- No new series premiered this week in 1983.
1993
- November 5 – George (ABC, One season, 9 episodes)
George stared retired boxer George Foreman as a retired boxer who runs an after-school program for troubled kids. Sheryl Lee Ralph played his wife.
2003
- November 7 – Star Wars: Clone Wars (Cartoon Network, Three seasons, 25 episodes)
- November 10 – Sabrina’s Secret Life (Syndication, One season, 26 episodes)
Star Wars: Clone Wars is set in the Star Wars filmic universe, taking place between the prequel films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. It was the first of many works to explore the Clone Wars. It was the first Star Wars TV series since 1985’s Ewoks. It is the only Warner Bros.-owned Cartoon Network series to air on a rival streaming service, Disney Plus, because of Disney’s ownership of Lucasfilm, which co-produced the series. All three seasons won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More). The series introduced the character of General Grievous. The series also served as a pilot for the 2008 series The Clone Wars, translating the 2D animated characters into 3D. After Disney acquired Lucasfilm, The Clone Wars became Star Wars canon while the 2003 series and most other works to that point would not. Series producer Genndy Tartakovsky claimed George Lucas conceived the show to sell more toys since the prequel trilogy figures were underselling. The name of planet Nelvaan was a nod to Nelvana, the complany that produced all of the previous animated Star Wars projects. One episode includes a Dulok, a species that was introduced in the Ewoks series. Anthony Daniels, the voice of C-3PO, was the only cast member from the films to participate in the series. Episodes of the first two seasons ran 3 minutes each, while the third season episodes ran 12 minutes each.
Sabrina’s Secret Life was a follow-up series to Sabrina: The Animated Series and Sabrina: Friends Forever, all based on the Archie Comics character Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
2013
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- November 6 – Mother Up! (Hulu, One season, 13 episodes)
- November 8 – The Lylas (WE tv, One season, 8 episodes)
- November 10 – Thicker Than Water (Bravo, Three seasons, 27 episodes)
- November 10 – American Jungle (History, One season, 8 episodes)
Mother Up!, starring Eva Longoria, was Hulu’s second animated series following The Awesomes, and was pitched as ‘Family Guy for women’.
Bravo aired the pilot Thicker Than Water: The Marinos which had the same premise of the series but featured a different family. The series that aired focused on the Tankard family, headed by former basketball player and Gospel-Jazz instrumentalist Ben Tankard.
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