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Liocracy was a
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television comedy series, which aired on
The Comedy NetworkThe Comedy Network a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media specializing in comedy programming.The channel operates two time shifted feeds, East and West ....
in 2001 and 2002.
The show, a spoof of biographical documentary series such as
Biography or
Life and Times, starred
Leslie NielsenLeslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in more than one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying more than 220 characters...
as host Terrence Brynne McKennie. Each episode presented a
Biography-type profile of a fictional person loosely based on a real-life celebrity.
The show was originally titled
Liography, but was changed to
Liocracy when the
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, the producers of the original
Biography series, threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit.