Real Life with Jane Pauley
Real Life with Jane Pauley was a
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was also featured as a correspondent; his reports featured stories on out of the way places.
Real Life with Jane Pauley began as an hour-long program aired on Tuesday nights in the summer of 1990. It was put on hiatus in September of that year, returning in January 1991 as a mid-season replacement. At this time it was reduced to a half hour, the length it was to remain throughout the balance of its run, but was then ill-paired with NBC's Exposè, a newsmagazine which was fully opposite of Real Life, with a Hard Copy-esque tabloid focus. The last broadcast was on November 1, 1991.
Although the series was one of over a dozen attempts by NBC to launch a newsmagazine, Pauley and the network prevailed in 1992 with Dateline NBC.
References
- Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows