Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Longest Running Television Shows

The world's longest running TV cookery show is Channel 4's Hasta La Cocina (Mexico) which has been broadcast each weekday since December 1, 1960. It has been presented continually by Mrs Zarate (Mexico) and is owned by Televisa Guadalajara Co., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. . That makes for a total of 11,232 episodes as of January 2010.

The world's longest running TV variety show is Sábado Gigante (Univision Television Network, USA), which has been broadcast every Saturday evening since 8 August 1962. The show was created and has been continually hosted by Mario Kreutzberger (Chile) or 'Don Francisco' as he is known. These shows also hold the Guinness world record.

Check out the list of the longest running television shows by category.






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