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Trio (or TRIO) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 and satellite television
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
 channel.

Trio went on the air in 1997, then originally owned and operated jointly by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canada crown corporation, is the country?s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Soci?t? Radio-Canada ....
 and Power Broadcasting Inc. (a subsidiary
Subsidiary

A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity. The controlled entity is called a company , corporation, or limited liability company, and the controlling entity is called its parent ....
 of Power Corporation of Canada
Power Corporation of Canada

Power Corporation of Canada is a major Canada company with assets in North America and Europe in a number of industries. These industries include mass media, pulp and paper, and financial services....
) as a venue for airing the CBC's arts, culture and entertainment programming in the U.S. It was to USA Networks
NBC Universal Cable

NBC Universal Cable is the Division of NBC Universal that oversees the following cable television television network:*Bravo *Chiller *CNBC...
 in 2000, and was subsequently transferred to Vivendi Universal
Vivendi

Vivendi SA is an international, France media Conglomerate with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet, and video games....
 and later NBC Universal
NBC Universal

NBC Universal, Inc. is a mass media and entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric's NBC with Vivendi part of the French Media Group, Vivendi Universal without Canal+ Group ....
.

With the slogan
Slogan

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commerce, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose....
, "pop, culture, TV," Trio programming under Vivendi/NBC Universal ownership focused on television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 as a cultural tool and art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
form.

In January 2005, DirecTV
DirecTV

DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite service based in El Segundo, California, California, which transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America....
 dropped Trio, eliminating about two-thirds of the homes that could receive the network.






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Trio (or TRIO) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 and satellite television
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
 channel.

Trio went on the air in 1997, then originally owned and operated jointly by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canada crown corporation, is the country?s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Soci?t? Radio-Canada ....
 and Power Broadcasting Inc. (a subsidiary
Subsidiary

A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity. The controlled entity is called a company , corporation, or limited liability company, and the controlling entity is called its parent ....
 of Power Corporation of Canada
Power Corporation of Canada

Power Corporation of Canada is a major Canada company with assets in North America and Europe in a number of industries. These industries include mass media, pulp and paper, and financial services....
) as a venue for airing the CBC's arts, culture and entertainment programming in the U.S. It was to USA Networks
NBC Universal Cable

NBC Universal Cable is the Division of NBC Universal that oversees the following cable television television network:*Bravo *Chiller *CNBC...
 in 2000, and was subsequently transferred to Vivendi Universal
Vivendi

Vivendi SA is an international, France media Conglomerate with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet, and video games....
 and later NBC Universal
NBC Universal

NBC Universal, Inc. is a mass media and entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric's NBC with Vivendi part of the French Media Group, Vivendi Universal without Canal+ Group ....
.

With the slogan
Slogan

A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commerce, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose....
, "pop, culture, TV," Trio programming under Vivendi/NBC Universal ownership focused on television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 as a cultural tool and art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
form.

In January 2005, DirecTV
DirecTV

DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite service based in El Segundo, California, California, which transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America....
 dropped Trio, eliminating about two-thirds of the homes that could receive the network. On November 21, 2005, NBC Universal announced that the Trio brand would be transferred to a broadband initiative under the Bravotv.com
Bravo (television network)

Bravo is a cable television network owned by NBC Universal. It is currently seen in more than 80 million homes and was the first service dedicated to film, drama, and the performing arts when it launched by Cablevision as an advertisement-free network in December 1980....
 banner on January 1, 2006. Cable and satellite providers still carrying Trio were offered a new NBC Universal cable channel instead, Sleuth.

Notable Trio programs


Original

  • The N-Word
    The N-Word

    The N-Word is a 2004 documentary film directed and written by Todd Larkins Williams. The movie, as the title may suggest, looks into the history and usage of the word nigger and its variations....
    , Peabody Award
    Peabody Award

    The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual, international awards for excellence in radio and television broadcasting....
    -winning documentary starring Whoopi Goldberg
    Whoopi Goldberg

    Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
    , Samuel L. Jackson
    Samuel L. Jackson

    Samuel Leroy Jackson is an United States film and television actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films....
     and many other African American celebrities discussing the origin and power of the word nigger
    Nigger

    Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable as a pejorative term and common ethnic slur for black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts....
    .
  • The Awards Show Awards Show, examination of America's obsession with awards
  • The Christmas Special Christmas Special
    The Christmas Special Christmas Special

    The Christmas Special Christmas Special is a television program examining the history of Christmas specials, and featuring interviews with many people associated with them....
  • Film Fanatic
    Film Fanatic

    Film Fanatic is a 2006 documentary about Yehuda Grovais, an Israelis ultra-Orthodox Jew, who rebels against his religion to make movies. But his films are geared towards the ultra-Orthodox community, which isn't supposed to watch movies either....
    , cinema, hosted by Amy Sedaris
    Amy Sedaris

    Amy Sedaris is an United States actor, author and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for playing the character Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy....


Reruns

  • A Very British Coup
    A Very British Coup

    A Very British Coup is a 1982 novel by Chris Mullin , and a 1988 United Kingdom television adaptation of the novel, adapted by Alan Plater and starring Ray McAnally....
  • Adrenaline Junkies (a.k.a. Medivac)
    Medivac (TV series)

    Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation....
  • Airline
  • All Saints
    All Saints (TV series)

    All Saints: Medical Response Unit is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama which airs on the Seven Network. The programme debuted on February 24, 1998 as All Saints and has become one of Australia's highest-rating dramas....
  • Battle of the Network Stars
    Battle of the Network Stars

    Battle of the Network Stars was the name of nineteen United States television specials featuring competitions among teams of popular television performers representing the three major broadcast networks at that time: American Broadcasting Company, CBS, and NBC....
  • Black Harbour
    Black Harbour

    Black Harbour is a Canada television series, which ran on CBC Television from 1996 to 1999.The show starred Rebecca Jenkins as Katherine Hubbard, a successful restaurant owner who returned to live in her Nova Scotia hometown to be with her mother who had suffered a heart attack....
  • Blue Heelers
    Blue Heelers

    Blue Heelers is a long-running Australian Police procedural series which depicted the lives of the police officers stationed at the fictional Mt....
  • Brides of Christ
  • Bugs
    Bugs (TV series)

    Bugs was a United Kingdom television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films....
  • Coming Home (TV miniseries), based on the Rosamunde Pilcher
    Rosamunde Pilcher

    Rosamunde Pilcher Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000....
     novel
  • Coronation Street
    Coronation Street

    Coronation Street is an award-winning soap opera created by Tony Warren. It is one of the longest-running television programmes in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on 9 December 1960, made by Granada Television and broadcast in all regions of ITV almost throughout its existence....
  • Counterstrike
  • Cracker
    Cracker (UK TV series)

    Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern....
  • The Dame Edna Experience
  • The Damnation of Harvey McHugh
    The Damnation of Harvey McHugh

    The Damnation of Harvey McHugh is a television miniseries made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series consists of 12 episodes and was first broadcast on the ABC in 1994....
  • Duggan (NZ TV series)
  • EGG, the Arts Show
    EGG, the Arts Show

    EGG, the arts show was an United States nonfiction television program that aired on Public Broadcasting Service from 2000 to 2003. EGG documented both the famous and the unusual aspects and projects of classical and modern arts; its narrator was Elaine Stritch....
  • E.N.G.
    E.N.G.

    E.N.G. was a Canada television drama, following the staff of a Fictional Toronto television news station. The show aired on CTV Television Network from 1988 to 1994....
  • Flightpath
  • Hot Type
    Hot Type

    Hot Type is a Canada television series, which airs weekly on CBC Newsworld. Hosted by Evan Solomon, the program profiles books and literature....
  • Judy Garland Show Christmas Special
    The Judy Garland Show

    The Judy Garland Show is an American Variety show television series. The show aired on CBS during the 1963-1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star....
  • Kath & Kim
    Kath & Kim

    Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television comedy series, created by Jane Turner and Gina Riley. The series revolves around the family matters and relationships of the title characters, a dysfunctional mother and daughter....
  • Late Night with David Letterman
    Late Night with David Letterman

    Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 in television and went off the air in 1993 in television, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show with David Letterman on CBS....
  • London's Burning
    London's Burning

    London's Burning was a television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television and focused on the lives of Blue Watch system firefighters....
  • McCallum
    McCallum

    McCallum was a British television series produced by STV Productions .Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead fictional character, played by John Hannah ....
  • MediaTelevision
    MediaTelevision

    Media Television was a Canada television newsmagazine series, which aired weekly on Citytv from 1991 to 2004. It was also syndicated internationally, airing in over 100 countries around the world at some point during its run....
  • Mercury (Australian TV series), featuring Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush

    Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. He moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria....
     in an early lead role
  • Nancherrow
    Nancherrow

    Nancherrow was a TV movie sequel to Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home. It aired on ITV television in 1999....
    , the sequel to Coming Home (TV miniseries)
  • The Nature of Things
    The Nature of Things

    The Nature of Things is a Canada television series which presents episodes examining science. It debuted on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on November 6, 1960....
  • New York Undercover
    New York Undercover

    New York Undercover is a one-hour Police procedural that aired on the FOX television network from 1994 in television to 1998 in television. The program was popular among its Hip hop culture target audience....
  • North of 60
    North of 60

    North of 60 is a mid-1990s Canada television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest . It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was television syndication around the world....
  • Once Upon a Hamster
  • Queen for a Day
    Queen for a Day

    Queen for a Day was an American Radio network and Television program which helped to usher in American listeners' and viewers' fascination with big-prize giveaway shows when it was born on radio , before moving to television ....
  • The Raccoons
    The Raccoons

    The Raccoons is a Canada animated television series, first broadcast from 1985 to 1992 with four preceding television specials starting from 1980....
  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was an United States sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 to May 14, 1973....
  • Secret Rulers of the World
    Secret Rulers of the World

    Secret Rulers of the World was a five part series of documentary films by World of Wonder Productions written, directed by and featuring British journalist Jon Ronson....
  • Sessions at West 54th
    Sessions at West 54th

    Sessions at West 54th was an United States television program that featured music performances, and was in some ways a pop music variation on the theme set by the long-lived Austin City Limits, though the featured musicians represented a number of musical genres....
  • Spaced
    Spaced

    Spaced is a United Kingdom television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent dropping of popular culture references, and occasional displays of surrealism....
  • Street Legal
    Street Legal (TV series)

    Street Legal was a Canada television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994....
  • Taggart
    Taggart

    Taggart is a long-running Scotland Detective fiction television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network....
  • Traders
    Traders (TV series)

    Traders is a Canada television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000....
  • Undercurrents
    Undercurrents (TV series)

    Undercurrents was a Canada television newsmagazine series in the 1990s, hosted by Wendy Mesley.The series, which first aired in 1994, primarily concentrated on investigative and documentary reports about media and technology, such as examining media coverage of controversial issues....
  • Young People's Concerts
    Young People's Concerts

    The Young People's Concerts at the New York Philharmonic are the longest-running series of family concerts in the world, having begun in 1924 under the direction of "Uncle" Ernest Schelling....


Brilliant But Cancelled

This was the umbrella title under which Trio aired repeats of series that had very short lives on mainstream broadcast television, yet were still considered to be programming that "broke the mold" of what was normally expected from the "Big Three
Big Three Television Networks

The Big Three Television Networks are the three traditional Broadcasting television networks in the United States: American Broadcasting Company, CBS and NBC....
" networks. Series that appeared under the Brilliant But Cancelled umbrella included:

  • Action
    Action (TV series)

    Action is a short-lived comedy series about a Hollywood producer named Peter Dragon, who is trying to recover from his last box-office failure....
  • Bakersfield P.D.
    Bakersfield P.D.

    Bakersfield P.D. was a short-lived United States television sitcom that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company Television network in 1993-94....
  • Brideshead Revisited
    Brideshead Revisited

    Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945....
     (one of the programs that was not a cancelled series; this was a miniseries adaptation of the famous novel)
  • East Side/West Side
    East Side/West Side

    East Side/West Side was an hour-long United States television drama starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles....
  • EZ Streets
    EZ Streets

    EZ Streets is an American television drama created by Paul Haggis. It premiered on CBS on October 27, 1996 with a two hour pilot television movie....
  • Fargo
    Fargo (film)

    Fargo is a Cinema of the United States film produced, directed and written by brothers Coen brothers. Set in Minnesota, it is the story of a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for an $80,000 ransom....
  • God, the Devil and Bob
    God, the Devil and Bob

    God, the Devil and Bob is a short-lived animated television series that was broadcast on NBC in March 2000 2000 in television. It was created by Matthew Carlson....
  • Johnny Staccato
    Johnny Staccato

    Johnny Staccato is a private detective television program which ran on NBC from 1959 to 1960 for 27 episodes. Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes, is a jazz pianist/private detective....
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker
    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1974. It featured a newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities won't accept or pursue....
  • Lookwell
    Lookwell

    Lookwell was a television pilot written and produced by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel. It starred Adam West as a washed-up TV action hero?who at the peak of his career was ceremonially deputized by local law enforcement?who falsely believes he can solve crimes in real life....
     (also not a cancelled series; this was a pilot that was not picked up.)
  • Now and Again
    Now and Again

    Now and Again was an American television series which aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain....
  • Profit
    Profit (TV series)

    Profit is a short-lived United States television series that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was created by David Greenwalt and John McNamara , and starred Adrian Pasdar as the titular character, Jim Profit....
  • The PJs
    The PJs

    The PJs was a stop motion animated television series created by Eddie Murphy, Larry Wilmore, and Steve Tompkins. It centers around life in an urban Detroit public housing project....


Brilliant But Cancelled was later used by Universal
Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Universal Studios Home Entertainment is a home video company founded in 1978 as MCA DiscoVision. The company is owned NBC Universal, the entertainment division of General Electric and Vivendi....
 as a title for a series of DVDs that feature samples of short-lived series. Two of these have been released so far -- one of these a sampler of short-lived crime drama series; another was selected episodes of EZ Streets. Brilliant But Cancelled lives on as a segment of Television Without Pity, .

Flops

Special airing of shows that flopped.

  • Cop Rock
    Cop Rock

    Cop Rock is a short-lived United States television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company in 1990 in television. The show, a Police procedural presented as a Musical theatre, was created by Steven Bochco, who also served as executive producer....
  • Pink Lady and Jeff
    Pink Lady and Jeff

    Pink Lady, also known as Pink Lady and Jeff, is a short-lived United States variety show that aired for four weeks on NBC in 1980....


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