Liocracy

Liocracy was a Canadian mockumentary comedy television series, which aired on The Comedy Network in 2001 and 2002.^[1]

Liocracy
Genre	Comedy
Written by	[various]
Directed by	Ron Murphy Alan Resnick
Starring	Leslie Nielsen
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	Greg Jones, Janice Evans
Production locations	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	The Comedy Network
Release	21 April 2001 (2001-04-21) – 1 February 2003 (2003-02-01)

The show, a spoof of biographical documentary series such as Biography or Life and Times, starred Leslie Nielsen as host Terrence Brynne McKennie.^[2] Each episode presented a Biography-type profile of a fictional person loosely based on a real-life personality.

The first episode centred on "Fiendly Giant", a Friendly Giant–like children's television host with a penchant for sadomasochism who became a pariah after being caught having sex with his rooster sidekick Rudy.^[3] Later episodes focused on Anne Surly, a serial killer indirectly based on Lucy Maud Montgomery and her Anne of Green Gables novels; Simon Duke, a horror novelist who was a spoof of Stephen King; Rachel Lange, a soap opera diva; Boyz 'r Us, a pop music boy band; and the on-again off-again romance of Hollywood acting icons Richard Button and Elizabeth Paladoro.^[4]

Filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the show was created by Ian Johnston and Peter Hays, two former journalists for the Halifax Daily News.^[5]

The show was titled Liography in its first season, but was changed to Liocracy in the second season after the A&E Network, the producers of the original Biography series, threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit.^[6] The second season premiered in November 2002, and ran for 13 episodes into early 2003. The series was not renewed for a third season.