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TV Nation
Format	Newsmagazine
Starring	Michael Moore, Rusty Cundieff, Karen Duffy, Janeane Garofalo, Louis Theroux
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC Fox
Original run	1994 – 1995
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

TV Nation was a satirical newsmagazine television series written, directed and hosted by Michael Moore that was co-funded and originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and BBC Two in the United Kingdom.

The show was originally broadcast in the United States on NBC in the summer of 1994 with the premiere taking place on June 19, 1994. Despite winning an Emmy, NBC cancelled the show with Fox subsequently picking up the series. The second season aired on FOX in the summer of 1995.

TV Nation contained investigative reports into various aspects of American life interspersed with survey results that showed the American public to be less than educated about issues that matter. Many of its segments were short-form versions of Michael Moore's documentaries, filmed and presented in a similar style.

The show featured segments such as "The Corporate Challenge," in which CEOs are challenged to prove they can use the products their companies create; the storming of a supposedly "private" beach; a campaign to have Congress declare a "TV Nation Day"; and "Crackers, the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken." Among its correspondents were Janeane Garofalo, Karen Duffy, Jonathan Katz, Rusty Cundieff and Louis Theroux. "Crackers" was played by "TV Nation" writer John Derevlany.

TV Nation won an Emmy in 1995 for Outstanding Informational Series. The show was named number 90 on the list of the British Film Institute's 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. The BFI explained what made it influential: "[TV Nation] was influential on the English comedian-turned-campaigner Mark Thomas. The show is often credited as the inspiration for Comedy Central's The Daily Show. TV Nation also featured early appearances by Louis Theroux, whose Weird Weekends series continued to explore the oddities of American culture." [1] Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends is not on the list.

Adventures in a TV Nation, a book about the series written by Moore and the show's producer, Kathleen Glynn, was published in 1998. Moore followed TV Nation with another television series, The Awful Truth, which was funded by the British broadcaster Channel 4. It was broadcast on the Bravo cable television network in the US from 1999 to 2000.

• TV Nation official site
• TV Nation at the Internet Movie Database
• TV Nation at the Open Directory Project

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