Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a compère or host. The variety format made its way from the Victorian era stage in Britain and America to radio and then television. Variety shows were a staple of English language television from the late 1940s into the 1980s.
TV Globo, formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Grupo Globo. The network is by far the largest of its holdings. TV Globo is the largest commercial TV network in Latin America and one of commercial TV networks in the world and the largest producer of telenovelas. All of this makes Globo renowned as one of the most important television networks in the world and Grupo Globo as one of the largest media groups.
TV Colosso was a Brazilian children's television series produced by Rede Globo, that began on April 19, 1993, and finished on January 3, 1997. The show utilized puppets, body puppets, remote-controlled animatronics and bluescreen puppets. It stars a group of working dogs in a TV station that struggle to put her TV shows on air.
Casseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who ran a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcast by Rede Globo between 1993 and 2010. The humour featured on the show is mostly sketches, relating to broad Brazilian pop culture subjects.
Record, formerly known as Rede Record and RecordTV, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking. In 2010, it was elected by the advertising market as the fifth largest station in the world in revenues and the eighth largest network in physical structure. In June 2021, it ranked second among the most watched channels in the country in the National Television Panel, behind only TV Globo.
Rede Bandeirantes, or simply known as Band, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It began broadcasting on May 13, 1967 on VHF channel 13 in São Paulo. Its founder was businessman João Saad with the help of his father-in-law and former São Paulo governor Adhemar de Barros. In terms of audience and revenue, it is currently the fourth largest Brazilian television network. It broadcasts throughout Brazil through its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates. It also has a series of pay TV channels and it broadcasts internationally via Band Internacional.
Regina Maria Loureiro Barreto CaséOMC is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and television presenter.
Pânico na TV was a Brazilian comedy program shown on RedeTV! on Sundays. It's the television version of the original radio program called Pânico. After its debut on TV, the program has become famous throughout Brazil. The show moved to Rede Bandeirantes in 2012 as Pânico na Band, staying on air until its cancellation in 2017.
Pantanal is a Brazilian telenovela that aired on Rede Manchete from March 27, 1990 to December 10, 1990. The series is written by Benedito Ruy Barbosa and directed by Jayme Monjardim, Carlos Magalhães, Marcelo de Barreto, and Roberto Naar. It is set on the Pantanal region in Mato Grosso do Sul located in midwestern Brazil. The production received logistical support from TV MS, which at the time was an affiliate of the network.
Glauco Villas Boas was a Brazilian illustrator, cartoonist and religious leader. He belonged to the Villas-Bôas brothers family.
Monique de Araújo Alfradique is a Brazilian actress.
TV Globo Internacional is an international pay television channel broadcasting from Brazil. It was launched on 24 August 1999 and it is owned by Grupo Globo.
Marcelo Madureira is the stage name of Marcelo Barreto Garmatter, a Brazilian comedian. He was part of the troupe that developed and presented between 1992 and 2010, the comedy show "Casseta & Planeta Urgente" at Rede Globo. Along with another group member, Hubert, he writes the Coluna do Agamenon to the newspaper "O Globo." He was professor of mathematics of an old Brazilian education program, MOBRAL and is a graduate in Production Engineering at the School of Engineering at UFRJ, having worked as an engineer in the Planning Department of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). Madureira is a black belt in judo and has been married for 25 years to the psychoanalyst Claudia, with whom he had three children.
Criticism of TV Globo refers to the extensive history of controversies involving the Brazilian television network monopoly, which has an unparalleled ability to influence Brazil's culture and shape the country's public opinion. The owners of Rede Globo had enriched themselves with government favors to become billionaires. The Globo Grupo are remanagment the branding in the internet for self-promote since 2010's decade.
The first episode of the Brazilian situation comedy Tá no Ar premiered on the Globo Network on Thursday night, April 10, 2014. It was written by series creators Marcelo Adnet and Marcius Melhem, and directed by Maurício Farias.
Boas Notícias is the twentieth studio album by Brazilian recording artist Xuxa Meneghel. It was released on September 22, 1997, by Som Livre.
Planeta Xuxa was a Brazilian television program directed by Marlene Mattos and hosted by Xuxa Meneghel. It was aired by TV Globo from 5 April 1997 to 28 July 2002. Aimed to the family and to its original audience that had now grown-up, it was initially broadcasting on Saturday afternoons. In April 1998, the TV show was moved to Sunday afternoons due to the transmissions of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, remaining in this timeslot until its final broadcast in 2002. Was the first Sunday evening program of auditorium hosted by a woman on Brazilian television. This slot, which is considered one of the noblest and most disputed on Brazilian television, was previously occupied by television programs presented exclusively by men as Silvio Santos, Fausto Silva and Gugu Liberato had shows on that time. Later,Carla Perez, Márcia Goldschmidt and Eliana followed the Xuxa footsteps and also appeared on Sunday afternoons on Brazilian TV. The program was an absolute success with audience ratings, often surpassing Domingão do Faustão.During the six years of its production, the program achieved frightening audience averages that, according to the measurement of the time, made by IBOPE, reached almost 1/4 of the televisions turned on in the country at that time. Often was common that the audience numbers surpassing Domingão do Faustão.
Xuxa Park was a Brazilian children's television series hosted by pop star Xuxa Meneghel, better known by the homonym Xuxa, the series aired on Globo from 4 June 1994 to 6 January 2001. The program, a reboot of a Spanish program of the same name broadcast in the early 1990s, was shown on Saturday mornings and aimed at a family audience. The program featured many elements from the previous version, such as games, cartoons, and musical numbers.
Escolinha do Professor Raimundo is a Brazilian escolinha comedy TV sketch and later TV show led by Chico Anysio and aired on various comedy shows for over 38 years. There, Anysio played Professor Raimundo, a teacher in charge of an adult education class.
Television comedy is a category of broadcasting that has been present since the early days of entertainment media. While there are several genres of comedy, some of the first ones aired were variety shows. One of the first United States television programs was the comedy-variety show Texaco Star Theater, which was most prominent in the years that it featured Milton Berle - from 1948 to 1956. The range of television comedy has become broader, with the addition of sitcoms, improvisational comedy, and stand-up comedy, while also adding comedic aspects into other television genres, including drama and news. Television comedy provides opportunities for viewers to relate the content in these shows to society. Some audience members may have similar views about certain comedic aspects of shows, while others will take different perspectives. This also relates to developing new social norms, sometimes acting as the medium that introduces these transitions.
