Release Date

24 Oct, 1990

Runtime

01:00: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

13/1

Synopsis

WIOU is an American television drama series, which aired on CBS in 1990 and 1991. The show is set in the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign is WNDY, but which is nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's perennial financial struggles. The show stars John Shea as news director Hank Zaret. The cast also includes Mariette Hartley as executive producer Liz McVay, Harris Yulin and Helen Shaver as news anchors Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson, Phil Morris as aggressive reporter Eddie Bock, Jayne Brook as reporter Ann Hudson, Kate McNeil as reporter Taylor Young, Dick Van Patten as aging weatherman Floyd Graham, and Wallace Langham as news intern Willis Teitelbaum. According to television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, this program received such low ratings that although 18 episodes were actually produced, five were never aired upon the program's cancellation.

Original Title

WIOU

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Season 1

24 Oct, 1990

Created By

John Eisendrath

Kathryn Pratt

Actors

Helen Shaver

Harris Yulin

Phil Morris

John Shea

Joe Grifasi

Robin Gammell

Mariette Hartley

Kate McNeil

Dick Van Patten

Wallace Langham

Jayne Brook

Crew

John Eisendrath

Scott Brazil