Written off as lowbrow by some critics, the show shot to the top of the Nielsen ratings shortly after its premiere and stayed there for several seasons.

Previously, networks typically used the occasion to premiere a new show, with little success.

In the premiere season of indie HBO show Girls, bohemian character Jessa Johansson ( Jemima Kirke ) was seen ordering a White Russian in a bar in the middle of the day of her planned abortion.

Hanks also provided the voice over for the premiere of the show Passport to the Universe at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences and critics.

According to Children and Television, Lesser's account of the development and early years of Sesame Street, there was little criticism of the show in the months following its premiere, but it increased at the end of its first season and beginning of the second season.

Their next professional show, The Melody Man, did not premiere until 1924.

Convy filmed a full week of pilots for the show, but in April 1990 ( three months before the show was scheduled to premiere ) was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and forced to relinquish hosting duties.

Weaver has hosted two episodes of the long-running NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live: once on the 12th season premiere in 1986, and again, on a season 35 episode in January 2010.

In the winter of 2007, Feldman's new film, Terror Inside, was released after the premiere of the A & E show.

The city's residents were featured on the premiere episode of the ABC reality / game show series My Kind of Town, on Sunday, August 14, 2005.

" Overall the show received mixed reviews, but debuted strongly with over 16 million viewers tuning in for the series premiere, and maintained an average audience of approximately 10 million viewers per week.

Laurdagsbarnetimen, a Norwegian children's show, with its premiere in 1924, is still being broadcast weekly, which makes it the longest running radio show in the world.

The television premiere of Mason Williams ' hit record, Classical Gas, took place on the show ; Williams was also the head writer for the series.

However, after the first pilot failed with test audiences, NBC ordered that the show be retooled into a more conventional, office-based sitcom before its premiere.

The show has its New York premiere at the New World Stages in April 2009 and won the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical and an additional 18 nominations from the Drama League, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel Awards ( including Best Musical ) and five Dora Award Nominations ( the Canadian equivalent of the Tony Award ) including Best Musical and a win for Best Actress in a Musical.

Around the same time of the September 2010 premiere of the show, the Press of Atlantic City created Boss of the Boardwalk, a 45-minute documentary which premiered on August 21, 2010 on NBC TV-40 and aired six additional times in the following weeks.

" Neither Kintner nor NBC was ever implicated in the scandal and NBC cancelled the show when it heard about the scandal, but Enright claimed before his death that Geritol's complaints about the lack of drama and suspense in the unrigged premiere prompted the company to rig the show.

Tomlin was the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show with her premiere of Appearing Nitely at the Biltmore theatre in April 1977.

, the titular Anpanman is the most popular fictional character among people age 0 to 12 years in Japan in 10 consecutive years, according to 2chan the show was originally going to premiere in 1987 and it was originally going to end with 24 episodes, according to research by Bandai.

Her final public appearance was at an after-party at the Sardi's restaurant in New York City, following the premiere of the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.

In May 2000, Rick Berman, executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager, revealed that a new series would premiere following the final season of Voyager.

Stravinsky traveled to Paris in 1910 to attend the final rehearsals and the premiere of The Firebird.

Verdi finally completed the composition of the opera on 5 February 1851, a little more than month before the premiere, although as he worked on the final stages of Act 3, Piave had already arranged for the sets to be designed.

She sang a total of three other roles at the Met: Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo ( in its Metropolitan Opera premiere ), Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, the role of her final performance with the company on March 26, 1987.

During the weeks between the series finale of Buffy and the Season 5 premiere of Angel, Lindsey McDonald makes an off-screen trip to the crater and digs up the amulet worn by Spike in the final battle.

It is also played in the final season's premiere episode, " Lazarus ," when Chloe exchanges herself for a kidnapped Oliver, as Lois arrives in Egypt to protect Clark, and as Clark finds out that Lois has gone to Egypt.

In 1990, at the age of ninety-seven, Ornstein's final work, the Eighth Piano Sonata, was completed and given its world premiere.

The " season premiere " is the date that the first episode of the season aired, and the " season finale " is the date that the final episode of the season aired.

They divorce in the season eight premiere episode ( which is Cheryl Hines ' final appearance on the series to date ).

The film had its world premiere at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival The film garnered a great deal of media attention because of the explicit and unsimulated sexual content of the final scene between Gallo and actress Chloë Sevigny, as well as a war of words between Gallo and film critic Roger Ebert, who stated that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes, although he later gave a re-edited version of the film his signature " thumbs up ".

After Poltergeist, she appeared in the final season premiere of CHiPs and the 1982 TV movie The Shadow Riders with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.

Her final public appearance was at the premiere of her brother Maximilian's documentary film, My Sister Maria ( 2002 ).

After the premiere, Shostakovich made some revisions to the score, and this final version was first played in Moscow later in 1927 under the baton of Konstantin Saradzhev.

On 1 May 1886, in Tbilisi, he conducted the premiere of the third and final version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasia.

In 1988 he conducted the world premiere of the Messa per Rossini that he also conducted at the Rheingau Musik Festival in 2001, where he has traditionally conducted the final concert.

In the seventh season premiere of Buffy, " Lessons ", the Master appears once more as a face of the First Evil, a shape-shifting villain and the Big Bad of the final season.

( NBC eventually lost one episode, the season premiere Hall of Fame Game, because of the lockout that ended in late July ) The program began airing December 12, 2011, with the final episode airing July 16, 2012.

Episodes two to five were actually premiered on the digital television station BBC Four at 10pm on the nights of the preceding episodes ' BBC One showings – episode six was held back for a premiere on BBC One so as not to allow the final twists to be spoiled for those who did not have access to digital television.

He also played unrelated characters in that series ' premiere episode and in the second and final Wild Wild West reunion movie, More Wild Wild West ( 1980 ).

Once he arrives at the lavish premiere, the producers reveal their powers of " final cut " and snare him in a guillotine and decapitates him, much to his delight.

During the 2010 premiere on Wednesday 14 April, it was indicated that the 20-episode run would be split into two groups, with a break between them, and the second group was broadcast on Saturday nights from 16 October 2010 with the season final on 27 November 2010.

The long absence of Kate was only mentioned in passing during the final season's premiere episode: In episode 197, the Bradley sisters, and baby Kathy Jo, return from dipping in the water tower.

They introduced the night's television programming which consisted of The Premiership at 20: 00 followed by a highlights reel of Network 2, new comedy sketch show Stew at 21: 30, a repeat broadcast of the final episode of Paths to Freedom and the television premiere of the film Spin the Bottle.