What Might've Been: Listen Up! (2004)

 Listen Up! is actually 2 shows in one.

The titular sports talk show is a knock-off of ESPN's Pardon The Interruption, whose co-host, Tony Kornheiser, was the inspiration for the sitcom, with his fictional counterpart played by Jason Alexander (ex-Seinfeld), who doubled as a producer. The series is set in Philadelphia instead of Washington, DC, where Interruption has been based since its inception. Malcolm Jamal-Warner (ex-The Cosby Show) co-stars.

Away from the talk show set, it's just another domestic sitcom. While the real Kornheiser is a humorist when writing his columns, Alexander, seeking to shed the image of his Seinfeld persona as George, is just another sitcom dad.

Let's take a look at a sample episode with guest stars Julia Duffy & Peter Scolari, reunited from their days on Newhart:

20 years later, Pardon The Interruption rolls on, while Listen Up! is but a footnote in television history. No rating.