PETE'S BROTHER
01-05-2011, 03:27 PM
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On Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. EST on Comedy Central, "Onion SportsDome" will begin its weekly swipe at TV sports coverage and commentary.
Then on Jan. 21, at 10 p.m. EST on the IFC network, "Onion News Network" launches its spitting-image TV version of cable-news excesses.
Two Onion series on two networks debuting the same month!
"We'd like to say that it was part of an effort toward global domination by The Onion," says executive producer Julie Smith. "But it was just coincidence."
Even so, warns executive producer Will Graham, "Our Onion fake media empire is slowly taking over real media. Eventually, we'll have 36 shows on different networks."
On Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. EST on Comedy Central, "Onion SportsDome" will begin its weekly swipe at TV sports coverage and commentary.
Then on Jan. 21, at 10 p.m. EST on the IFC network, "Onion News Network" launches its spitting-image TV version of cable-news excesses.
Two Onion series on two networks debuting the same month!
"We'd like to say that it was part of an effort toward global domination by The Onion," says executive producer Julie Smith. "But it was just coincidence."
Even so, warns executive producer Will Graham, "Our Onion fake media empire is slowly taking over real media. Eventually, we'll have 36 shows on different networks."