TV Nation: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

TV Nation, which first aired in the summer of 1994, in its own small way, made history. Michael Moore, director of the shambling working-class documentaries Roger & Me and The Big One and the subsequent Bravo! cable program The Awful Truth, persuaded NBC to give him a run of hour-long shows that would enlist the talents of pop-culture correspondents from Karen Duffy to Steven Wright in the name of confrontational TV. Opening with a jump-cutting montage of loaded images, to the alternating synthesized plucked strings and heavy-metal guitar of tomandandy, and punctuated by nonsensical polls conducted by Widgery & Associates, TV Nation took Moore and his colleagues up (inside skyscrapers), down (into bomb shelters), and around the globe--even to the Ukraine--to confront the exploiters, polluters, and hypocrites threatening Moore's peaceable and generally liberal-minded view of the world.

Series details

• Title: TV Nation
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1994-07-19
• Final broadcast date listed: 1995-09-08
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: FOX
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 50319
• IMDb ID: tt0108951
• TVDB ID: 78788

Cast and credited roles

• Michael Moore — Presenter
• Louis Theroux — Louis Theroux
• Rusty Cundieff — Rusty Cundieff
• Karen Duffy — Karen Duffy
• Janeane Garofalo — Janeane Garofalo

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1994-07-19; final listed air date 1994-08-30; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 1995-07-21; final listed air date 1995-09-08; episode order: 7.

Source and licence

Adapted from TV Nation on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.