For 50 years, Spanish-speaking TV viewers have tuned into the weekly variety show Sábado Gigante. Since 1962, host Don Francisco has commanded a... 'Sábado Gigante' Celebrates 50 With Lots Of Variety ...

Univision’s long-running variety show Sábado Gigante is going off the air, leaving behind an admirable legacy of hosting candid conversations about the lives of gay people. If you consider Sábado ...

Adios, “Sabado Gigante”: Univision is ending its top-rated variety show after a staggering 53-year run. Host and creator Don Francisco (his stage name, real name Mario Kreutzberger) will stay with the ...

If you have never heard of Don Francisco, he is one of the most iconic and famous television personalities in U.S. Spanish-language television, revered by millions of adoring fans. For 53 years, Mario ...

Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson and Jay Leno have all left their long-running late-night perches. And now Mario Kreutzberger (known by his stage name Don Francisco), the Chilean-born ...

The longest running variety show in television history is coming to an end. In its 53 years of existence, hours of comedy sketches, and hundreds of automobile giveaways, “Sabado Gigante,” the ...

Late last year, I got the opportunity to do research on one of the most celebrated – but now endangered – social rituals: breakfast. My client was a food company that was concerned about the larger ...

“The end of era” isn’t just a slogan belonging to AMC’s Mad Men final season. It applies more appropriately to Univision’s Saturday night variety show, Sábado Gigante, which is saying goodbye after 53 ...

Univision has cancelled Sábado Gigante, a Spanish-language weekly variety show, after 53 years on the air, the Miami Herald reports. Sábado Gigante -- literally "Gigantic Saturday" -- mixes talent ...

Some television shows are around so long that you assume that, like zombies and certain plastics, they simply cannot die. That was certainly the case for “Sábado Gigante,” the weekly Spanish-language ...