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The TV Wheel (1995)

The TV Wheel poster
Genre
comedy, tv movie
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Joel Hodgson created and stars in this television pilot for HBO. It is a comedy show that features a wheel of various TV genres that the performers must act out. The pilot was not picked up and later aired on Comedy Central.

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What happens

The TV Wheel is a 1995 television pilot created by and starring Joel Hodgson, of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. The pilot was funded by cable network HBO, but they ultimately passed on picking up the show. The pilot episode eventually aired once on Comedy Central as a special presentation following the last new episode of MST3K to be broadcast on that network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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