| Genre: | Comedy |
| Director: | Ron Murphy Alan Resnick |
| Starring: | Leslie Nielsen |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 26 |
| Executive Producer: | Greg Jones, Janice Evans |
| Location: | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Channel: | The Comedy Network |
Liocracy was a Canadian mockumentary comedy television series, which aired on The Comedy Network in 2001 and 2002.[1]
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.