# What's this TV show?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-tv-show/423949 "2007-10-25T12:33:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-tv-show/423949/1 "2007-10-25T12:33:01Z")

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It aired in syndication in I wanna say 1995 or 1996. My local station that carried it was the same station that carried UPN programming but a look through [UPN’s list of programs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_UPN) doesn’t ring any bells. The show was set at a Los Angeles TV station, centering around the news department. I can’t remember the names of any of the actors and have only a vague impression that one of the characters, the Latina anchorwoman, was named “Liz Vargas” or “Liz Vasquez” or something similar. The only plot-related thing I can remember is a scheme undertaken by the station’s cameraman to create and market a “Girls Gone Wild” type videotape featuring women in bikinis firing guns and the taping of a segment of the tape set to the Cramps song “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns.” Anyone?

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**Author:** ![Smith8762](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Smith8762](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smith8762)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-tv-show/423949/2 "2007-10-25T12:56:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Otto]  
It aired in syndication in I wanna say 1995 or 1996. My local station that carried it was the same station that carried UPN programming but a look through [UPN’s list of programs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_UPN) doesn’t ring any bells. The show was set at a Los Angeles TV station, centering around the news department. I can’t remember the names of any of the actors and have only a vague impression that one of the characters, the Latina anchorwoman, was named “Liz Vargas” or “Liz Vasquez” or something similar. The only plot-related thing I can remember is a scheme undertaken by the station’s cameraman to create and market a “Girls Gone Wild” type videotape featuring women in bikinis firing guns and the taping of a segment of the tape set to the Cramps song “Bikini Girls with Machine Guns.” Anyone?  
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Pretty sure it was [“Live Shot”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112051/)?

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-tv-show/423949/3 "2007-10-25T13:16:09Z")

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Was it Los Angeles or Miami? Because it sounds kind of like the moderately lousy sitcom [Good Morning, Miami](http://imdb.com/title/tt0320018/), starring Mark Feuerstein, Suzanne Pleshette, Jere Burns, Ashley Williams and Tessie Santiago.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-tv-show/423949/4 "2007-10-25T13:30:11Z")

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[QUOTE=snowblindfrog]  
Pretty sure it was [“Live Shot”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112051/)?  
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Yup, that’s it. It was “Liz Vega,” not “Vargas.” Well done.