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The Lot
The Lot is an American comedy-drama series that aired for two seasons and 17 episodes on the AMC from 1999 to 2001. It profiled the fictional studio Sylver Screen Pictures during the 1930s and the pursuits of its classic stars (such as Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo and Shirley Temple). The show was met with neither popular nor critical success but Jeffrey Tambor, Rue McClanahan, Linda Cardellini and Michael York all had notable recurring roles.
The two seasons had two different plotlines. The first season (
Sync Battle" and a return to original scripted programming.
On January 18, 2018, Spike relaunched as Paramount Network and relocated its headquarters to the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Los Angeles, California, aiming to align it with its namesake film studio (which previously lent its name to a proposed re-branding of the now-defunct broadcast television network UPN). The network has been positioned by Viacom as a general "flagship" outlet for original scripted series, competing with other "premium" basic-tier subscription