Carol & Company
| Carol & Company | |
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| Genre | Comedy anthology |
| Written by |
Marilyn Anderson Dana Coen |
| Directed by |
Will Mackenzie Marian Deaton Andrew D. Weyman |
| Starring |
Carol Burnett Anita Barone Meagen Fay Richard Kind Terry Kiser Peter Krause Jeremy Piven |
| Theme music composer | Howard Pearl |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 33 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Touchstone Television Wind Dancer Productions Kalola Productions |
| Distributor | Disney-ABC Domestic Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | March 31, 1990 – July 20, 1991 |
Carol & Company is an American comedy anthology series starring Carol Burnett, Jeremy Piven, Meagen Fay, Terry Kiser, Anita Barone, Richard Kind and Peter Krause that aired for two seasons on NBC from March 31, 1990 to July 20, 1991.
Carol & Company began as a mid-season replacement from March 31 to June 2, 1990 and was subsequently picked up for a full season which ran from September 22, 1990 until July 20, 1991.
Unlike Carol Burnett's previous variety shows, Carol & Company was an anthology series which applied an unusual repertory approach to television comedy. Every week, Burnett and her fellow players (Krause, Piven, Fay, Kiser, Barone and Kind) performed a different half-hour comedy playlet. Only the performers remained the same from week to week; there were no ongoing characters or plots, although there were guest stars from time to time including Betty White, Christopher Reeve, Swoosie Kurtz and Burnett's daughter Carrie Hamilton. In 1991, Burnett's cohort, Tim Conway, made a cameo appearance as an audience member in the episode, "That Little Extra Something."
Shortly after the series' cancellation, Burnett switched back to her former network CBS to star in a short-lived revival of The Carol Burnett Show which aired from November 1 to December 27, 1991. It featured a new ensemble cast, including two Carol & Company players (Meagen Fay and Richard Kind) along with Jessica Lundy, Rick Aviles, Chris Barnes, Roger Kabler and weekly guest stars such as Vicki Lawrence, Martin Short, B.B. King and Jim Nabors. However, the series failed to catch on with the public and only nine episodes of this revival were aired.
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