Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p MADtv returned for a fourteenth season on September 13, 2008. In November 2008, it was announced that after 14 years on FOX, MADtv would be cancelled at the end of the 2008-2009 season. Despite this, producer David Salzman promised that MADtv would be revived and put on cable television. Plans for this have not come to fruition, though Cartoon Network's MAD series and Comedy Central's Key & Peele are considered by most viewers to be unofficial spin-offs. MADtv's final episode aired on May 16, 2009, featuring guest appearances from Fred Willard and a select few former cast members. 22 episodes were scheduled to air this season, though only 17 actually aired, and averaged 2.6 million viewers.Between January 17, 2009 and February 21, 2009, MADtv was moved from its 11:00pm time slot to midnight on FOX affiliates and aired 30-minute reruns of their episodes that have previously aired from September to December 2008. Meanwhile, the show that preceded MADtv (Talkshow with Spike Feresten) was moved to MADtv's 11pm time slot and expanded to an hour.Of the season thirteen cast, feature players Daheli Hall, Dan Oster, and Anjelah Johnson did not return, while longtime cast members Jordan Peele and Michael McDonald left (though McDonald acted as a contributing writer and director for the show). New feature players for this season included comedian Matt Braunger, Erica Ash (from Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show), stage actress Lauren Pritchard, and Eric Price. This season was also the last of two seasons that aired Saturday Night Live-style clip show episodes: MADtv's Sexy, Dirty Politics (a collection of the show's most outrageous past and present political sketches), MADtv's Best of Holiday Sketches Spectacularly Special Spectacular (a collection of Christmas-themed sketches), and MADtv: The Best of Michael McDonald (a collection of sketches featuring Michael McDonald's greatest celebrity impersonations and recurring characters).. }
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- MADtv_(season_14) abstract "MADtv returned for a fourteenth season on September 13, 2008. In November 2008, it was announced that after 14 years on FOX, MADtv would be cancelled at the end of the 2008-2009 season. Despite this, producer David Salzman promised that MADtv would be revived and put on cable television. Plans for this have not come to fruition, though Cartoon Network's MAD series and Comedy Central's Key & Peele are considered by most viewers to be unofficial spin-offs. MADtv's final episode aired on May 16, 2009, featuring guest appearances from Fred Willard and a select few former cast members. 22 episodes were scheduled to air this season, though only 17 actually aired, and averaged 2.6 million viewers.Between January 17, 2009 and February 21, 2009, MADtv was moved from its 11:00pm time slot to midnight on FOX affiliates and aired 30-minute reruns of their episodes that have previously aired from September to December 2008. Meanwhile, the show that preceded MADtv (Talkshow with Spike Feresten) was moved to MADtv's 11pm time slot and expanded to an hour.Of the season thirteen cast, feature players Daheli Hall, Dan Oster, and Anjelah Johnson did not return, while longtime cast members Jordan Peele and Michael McDonald left (though McDonald acted as a contributing writer and director for the show). New feature players for this season included comedian Matt Braunger, Erica Ash (from Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show), stage actress Lauren Pritchard, and Eric Price. This season was also the last of two seasons that aired Saturday Night Live-style clip show episodes: MADtv's Sexy, Dirty Politics (a collection of the show's most outrageous past and present political sketches), MADtv's Best of Holiday Sketches Spectacularly Special Spectacular (a collection of Christmas-themed sketches), and MADtv: The Best of Michael McDonald (a collection of sketches featuring Michael McDonald's greatest celebrity impersonations and recurring characters).".