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NAME THAT TUNE
January 6, 2021  | By David Bianculli

Fox, 9:02 p.m. ET

 
SERIES PREMIERE: Name That Tune, as a radio quiz show featuring contestants vying to identify songs while hearing fewer notes, premiered on NBC Radio in 1952, and came to TV the following year. It survived on TV throughout the 1950s, then was revived in the 1970s and the Eighties. VH1 even tried a visual version, Name That Video, in 2001. But now, 20 years after that attempt, Fox launches another reboot. This one is audio only, back to the original title of Name That Tune, and is hosted by Broadway musical star and frequent Ally McBeal songstress Jane Krakowski. And yes, that’s former American Idol judge Randy Jackson at the piano…
 
 
 
 
 
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