TV Time Machine # 22 - August 2000 - Popular, TV to Go, The Weakest Link

Matt and Luke hop abroad the TV Time Machine to look at the TV landscape of August 2000. He will soon have so many TV shows to his name and swimming pools full of money, but in August of 2000, Ryan Murphy debuted his first show on the teen skewing network The WB. The show, Popular, is a teen comedy with a strange mix of tones but some DNA of Glee, the show that made him a household name and a titan in the industry. Next, sketch comedy TV to Go, a sketch series billed as a show 'to skewer the annoyances of everyday life.' The forgotten series, featured Martin Freeman and Hugh Dennis, but unsurprisingly, the standouts are Sean Lock and Bill Bailey. Then, a show that would become a megahit, as Anne Robinson dons a cape for a new quiz show that would become a global hit in The Weakest Link. Finally, there's Scottish drama Tinsel Town, which is a hard show to pin down.