Donny & Marie (1998 TV series)

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Donny & Marie
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Presented by Donny Osmond
Marie Osmond
Country of originUnited States
Production
Running time60 minutes
Production companies Dick Clark Productions
Columbia TriStar Television Distribution
Original release
Network Syndication
ReleaseSeptember 21, 1998 (1998-09-21) 
May 19, 2000 (2000-05-19)

Donny & Marie is an American talk show hosted by Donny and Marie Osmond, [1] that aired in syndication from September 1998 to May 2000 and was produced by Dick Clark, with Merrill Osmond as executive producer. [2] The show had a "house band", featuring Jerry Williams (musical director/keyboards), Kat Dyson (guitar), Paul Peterson (bass), and Nick Vincent (drums), and would also occasionally perform with musical guests. Though the show received back-to-back nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2000 and 2001, the show was canceled in 2000. The show was a reboot of the earlier Donny & Marie television show, which ran from 1976 to 1979.

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References

  1. "Donny, Marie Hitting the Airwaves Together Again | the Spokesman-Review".
  2. "That '70s Chemistry for a '90s Talk Show". Los Angeles Times . 20 September 1998.