11 Facts About Variety show

Variety show, known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism.

The Variety show hosted the only television appearance of Buddy Holly and The Crickets.

The Wayne Brady Show lasted only one summer season in its variety format; when the show returned the next year in syndication, it had been reformatted as a talk show, under which format it ran until 2004.

Fox's Osbournes Reloaded, a variety show featuring the family of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, was canceled after only one episode had been telecast in 2009.

Variety show format continued in America in the form of the telethon, which feature variety entertainment interspersed with appeals for viewers to make donations to support a charity or cause.

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Prime time variety show format was popular in the early decades of Australian television, spawning such series as In Melbourne Tonight, The Graham Kennedy Show, The Don Lane Show, and Hey Hey It's Saturday, which ran for 27 years.

Variety show programming has remained one of the dominant genres of television programming.

The most notable Philippine variety show is the longest-running Eat Bulaga, which premiered in 1979 and has aired on RPN, ABS-CBN, and GMA Network in the succeeding years.

Originally established in 1968 on Radio Caracas Television, the Variety show moved to Venevision in 1970 and was renamed Sabado Sensacional.

Spanish-language variety show known as Sabados Gigantes began in 1962 with Don Francisco and lasted into the 1990s.

From 1965 to 1970 was aired Dim Dam Dom, a modern, playful and sophisticated Variety show intended for a female audience and produced by Elle chief editor Daisy de Galard.