The Amanda Show


The Amanda Show is an American live action sketch comedy and variety show created by Dan Schneider that aired on Nickelodeon on April 4, 1999, as a pilot, then as a regular series from October 16, 1999, to September 21, 2002. It starred Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, and Nancy Sullivan, and featured John Kassir, Raquel Lee, and Josh Peck. The show was a spin-off from All That, in which Bynes had co-starred for several years. The show ended on September 21, 2002. Writers for the show included Schneider, John Hoberg, Steven Molaro, and Andrew Hill Newman.
One year after the end of The Amanda Show, Dan Schneider created a new series, called Drake & Josh, featuring Drake Bell, Josh Peck, and Nancy Sullivan.

Format

The Amanda Show is a sketch comedy television program set in a fictional universe in which it is broadcast as a popular television comedy. Recurring sketches include "Judge Trudy", a spoof of Judge Judy; "So You Want to Win Five Dollars?", a spoof of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; and "Blockblister", a spoof of the now-defunct video rental shop Blockbuster.

Episodes

Cast members

Reruns of The Amanda Show originally started airing on The N on October 31, 2007 and were dropped from the channel in March 2008, but later returned on April 4, 2009 The original TV rating was TV-Y7, but was changed to TV-G, like all of the other shows that aired on the former TEENick block on Nickelodeon. On August 3, 2009, The Amanda Show was dropped.
On July 11, 2011 the British Nicktoons channel began airing the series; it showed weekdays at 9:00 p.m. Some episodes missing from broadcast included three episodes from Season 1, three Season 2 episodes, and four episodes from Season 3. Reasons for these episodes not being shown are unknown.
Nickelodeon Canada began airing the series on September 5, 2011 with the exception of Season 1 episodes 8 and 12, and Season 3 episode 11. The series was removed from the schedule in 2012.
Reruns of The Amanda Show began airing on TeenNick on October 11, 2011. Although it was originally announced as part of TeenNick's 1990s block The '90s Are All That, the series instead aired as a standalone series during the daytime. The show was pulled in April 2012 following Bynes' arrest for a DUI.
The show would later return on September 17, 2012 and aired in two hour blocks, until being removed again on March 17, 2013. The show later premiered on The Splat on June 10, 2016 and on August 27, 2017 as part of a SNICK 25th anniversary marathon, before returning again on March 23, 2020.

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