Country Fried Planet
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| Country Fried Planet | |
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| Format | Variety |
| Starring | Bill Engvall Hogan as himself |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Bradley Anderson Mack Anderson |
| Producer(s) | Bill Engvall |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CMT |
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Country Fried Planet or CFP is an American television program that is aired on the Country Music Television cable network. It is hosted by stand-up comedian. Bill Engvall.
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[edit] Description
Bill Engvall hosts Country Fried Planet from his "command center", depicted to be his garage. The show consists of viewer-submitted videos with narration by Bill. One video each show is chosen by Bill to win the "The Best Place on Earth" award. The show features an opening credit disclaimer stating that video submissions depicting intentionally dangerous and/or illegal content will be rejected. This show is similar to Country Fried Home Videos and features the same writers; Senior Writer Murray Valeriano (who also wrote the pilot), Bret Calvert, and Brett McVicker.
[edit] Season 1
Episode 101 - Earth: Better Than Uranus
Episode 102 - Earth: The TV Show
Episode 103 - Earth: Major Blue Ball
Episode 104 - Earth: No Venus Envy
Episode 105 - Earth: Love It Or Leave It
Episode 106 - Earth: Sit N' Spin
[edit] Currently in Production
Country Fried Home Videos
[edit] First Television
First Television is a joint venture of brothers Mack Anderson and Bradley Anderson. The two men claim that cutting edge, innovative programming is the way to make television sets the most entertaining appliance in the house.
The Andersons have produced daytime talk, magazine strips, games, network reality series, network specials, live action and animated children’s programming.[citation needed]
First Television has developed a reputation for programming with a slightly twisted edge. The Andersons are currently executive producers of three shows for CMT (Country Music Television), Bill Engvall’s “Here’s Your Sign” Special, Country Fried Planet, and Country Fried Home Videos. First Television is responsible for Paramount syndicated series Maximum Exposure and Unexplained Mysteries, and Comedy Central's version of Trigger Happy TV. They produced Battlebots for Comedy Central, which aired for five seasons, and 130 episodes of MTV's webRiot, a high-tech interactive gameshow. They also produced The Rocket Challenge for the Discovery Channel. First Television also helped create PSI Factor with Dan Aykroyd and The Paranormal Borderline, hosted by Jonathan Frakes for UPN.[citation needed]
[edit] Criticism of Country Fried Planet
Some viewers have criticized Country Fried Planet for showing video clips involving cruelty to animals Animal rights group PETA has criticized the show for depicting the eating of live baby birds, live snakes, and live lizards, as well as the transportation of live cattle by tying a rope around one of the animal's limbs or its neck and lifting it with a helicopter.
Commonsensemedia.org, a television watchdog group, does not recommend the show for children due to sexual innuendo, violence, language, message, social behavior, and depictions of drug and alcohol abuse.[1]
