Having been renewed for new seasons, America's Funniest Home Videos (AFV) in the US and You’ve Been Framed (YBF) in the UK are respectively celebrating their 28th and 27th anniversaries this year. Highly successful in their markets for over a quarter-century, both programs are local versions of the hit TBS variety program Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan,which ran in Japan from January 1986 to March 1992. AFV began its long US run in 1989 on major US terrestrial network ABC. In … [Read more...] about AFV and YBF celebrate anniversaries
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“America’s Funniest Home Videos” celebrates 25th anniversary
Having been renewed for another season, America's Funniest Home Videos (AFV), the American version of the TBS variety programme Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this autumn. For a quarter-century, the programme has maintained its exceptional popularity in the competitive field of prime time terrestrial broadcasting in the U.S. The original Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan was a hit in Japan, running on TBS from January 1986 to March 1992. In 1989, ABC, … [Read more...] about “America’s Funniest Home Videos” celebrates 25th anniversary
“AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME” VIDEOS turns 24
AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS (AFV) celebrates its 24th anniversary in fall 2013.After the ABC Network (Disney/ABC) began airing AFV in 1989, the show became the longest-running primetime entertainment programme in the 60-year history of the ABC network in the autumn of 2006.The show is produced by Vin Di Bona, four-time Emmy award-winning producer and recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, under licence from TBS. In partnership with … [Read more...] about “AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME” VIDEOS turns 24
