Talk:List of longest-running television shows by category

message: Odd category, but wouldn't this be Soul Train (35 years?)
No it's top of the pops - even when you exclude the jimmy saville episodes. The japanese show is a singing contest so not the same thing81.152.94.43 (talk) 14:36, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music show - syndication 

message: There is a Drama sitcom in Belgium on the broadcaster VRT Een called Thuis with over 19 seasons and 3500 episodes. Starting in 1994 till present
109.135.4.220 (talk) 20:35, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Longest running Dramma sitcom?

message: Someone appears to have set up two 'sitcom' rows, one just saying Sitcom and the other saying Situation Comedy, going to The Simpsons and Last of the Summer Wine respectively. Not sure if it was a mistake or a Simpsons fan getting flustered or what, but I'm going to be bold and remove the one with the shortest run time, which in this case would be The Simpsons, and replace 'Situation Comedy' with 'Sitcom', since that's the word the pipelink redirects to anyway. --94.14.6.106 (talk) 11:20, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sitcom v Situation Comedy

message: Should we count years when still a radio show? I don't think we should, so I've put the start date to 1952. Even with this change I belive it is still the world's longest running TV soap opera 81.135.138.232 (talk) 18:38, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guiding Light 

message: What about those programs where ppl write in about other programmes, the ones like Points of View? - what do you call them? are there any that have been going for longer than Points of View???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.115.126 (talk) 20:39, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV feedback show 

message: Sesame st(1969 - present) is a relative newcomer, Blue Peter is a lot older(started in the 1950's and still going), followed by Here's Humphery (1965 - present- Australia). I think Sooty in the UK has been going a while too. Seasame st has a lot of molestors.
Peter Perves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
And Duncan Dares = Blue Peaters!
Sorry but Sooty has been on TV 61 years. 
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.218.221 (talk) 19:16, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running Kids show -

message: Longest running cop show is Taggart (UK)
Started 1983 and still running today.
Oh, no its Tatort, a german cop show starting in 1970! Deathlibrarian (talk) 09:22, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  longest running cop show 

message: The longest running Sports show is not 'Wide World of Sports' but is 'Hockey Night In Canada'; which first aired October 11, 1952 - televising a game between Montreal and Toronto. HNIC has been aired continuously since that date in various forms - with up to three games a night being shown consecutively on Saturday nights in Canada during the season (including the playoffs). 24.84.2.6 02:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  longest running sports show 

message: I believe that this entry is in fact wrong as Taggart pre-dates The Bill by one year, according to the IMDB website. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.28.38.40 (talk) 02:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running Crime/police show 

message: Just added Zenigata Heiji which is the longest running Historical drama - havin run since 1952!!! Deathlibrarian 05:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running Period drama 

message: Should there be a sketch comedy category included in this list? If it is, I believe that Saturday Night Live is the longest running sketch comedy show(1975 - present).
*Is there a published or online source that refers to this "category"? If not, it would be considered original research, which is prohibited in Wikipedia.B.Wind 06:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sketch Comedy Category 

message: Is this even remotly true, or is it BBC propeganda. Its realy of base. I can think of older series that are still running such as:
"The Twilight Zone" and series based on the character "super man" -- ie "The Adventures of Superman", "smallviille"... would have to be even older (though maybee what was sci fi back then is a new genre now).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.104.65.184 (talk) 13:56, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr Who!! 

message: I thought Mission Impossible was the longest running Spy show, but The Avengers (TV series) ran a bit longer, from 1962 - 1969. Danger man and the man from Uncle are other contenders
* Danger Man only ran 3 seasons and two episodes of a 4th, while UNCLE I believe ran 4, so they aren't contenders. I think, though, that if we're going to include continuation series -- see Doctor Who -- then the two seasons of the Mission Impossible revival of 1988-90 should be added on to the 7 seasons of the original 1966-73 run, which would give it 9 seasons and possibly, therefore, beat The Avengers. Thoughts? 68.146.41.232 (talk) 19:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spy Show 

message: I think this is a dubious category??? Aren't most soaps family drama's?
There is no page on Family drama's on wikipedia...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.35.150.226 (talk) 08:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category - Family Drama 

message: General Hospital is not a medical drama, its a daytime soap opera see General Hospital
Medical drama's are shows like ER, House, St Elsewhere, etc.
See the wikipedia page on soap opera where General Hospital discussed.
The longest Medical drama is Casualty (1986 - 2007)
* http://www.uktv.com.au/programmes/show.asp?id=24
* http://uktv.co.uk/gold/stepbystep/aid/592428
Agreed. This should be changed. The Duct Tape Avenger (talk) 02:59, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical drama 

message: This page seems to prove that shows in the Uk go on forever! Deathlibrarian (talk) 11:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh yeah, UK television is superior to American television because you guys don't "flog" ideas to death. You guys just create one show, film a handful of episodes and then air it until the end of time. It's not like any media from the UK was ever flogged to death or aired so long that it got boring. Americans are the only ones who create silly franchises based on talentless losers - not like the UK who create franchises about stunning intellectuals. Nope. Americans are the only ones that do that. And it's not like you guys ever come up with stupid ideas for shows either. Nuh-uh...Americans are the only silly ones on the planet. Christ, almighty, get over yourself! TV is vapid no matter where you go. Why some non-Americans think they're so much more sophisticated and smarter than Americans is beyond me - there are idiots everywhere, including in your beloved United Kingdom. One quick search of non-American entertainment shows other countries churn out just as much crap as Americans and are just as guilty of "flogging" an idea to death.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.72.173.203 (talk) 08:47, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom 

message: I've changed this as Heartbeat has been running for 16 years - five longer than the US show listed previously. Smurfmeister (talk) 15:01, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Longest running family drama

message: Although Mr. Squiggle is definitely longer-running than Doctor Who, my impression is that, among those who count such things, Doctor Who is usually and canonically considered the longest-running SF show ever. Since Mr. Squiggle predates it, the fact that Doctor Who was at various times throughout its run and later called the longest-running SF show (whereas this is the first time I've seen Mr. Squiggle credited that way) seems to me like it should trump - especially since Mr. Squiggle's claim to being a SF show in the conventional sense seems stretched (it seems like the primary genre would be considered a children's show... certainly the show gets little attention from academic or fannish considerations of science fiction). Given that Guinness comes down definitively on the side of Doctor Who here as well  I am changing this entry back to Doctor Who - unless someone can find an equally authoritative declaration that Mr. Squiggle is considered the longest-running SF show, it should not be listed as such. Phil Sandifer (talk) 20:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mr. Squiggle

message: I had originally put (and it's still there) The Price Is Right as the longest running game show. However, a local quiz show program out of D.C., It's Academic, has been on continuously since 1961; it is only on the air on 3 stations in the country. Would anybody consider this show to supersede Price's longevity or would the show be in a separate category ("Quiz Show", for example)? 
Additionally, if you add the original Price Is Right's run into the mix (the 1956-65 version hosted by Bill Cullen), it would be older than It's Academic. Any input would be appreciated. --Mr. Brown (talk) 02:57, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running game show 

message: Someone has entered this show from Pakistan. It is a quiz show that ran for 20 years, so it is beaten by the price is right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelam_Ghar
Deathlibrarian (talk) 14:44, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neelam_Ghar Tariq Aziz 

message: Didn't animated shows have their own list? ---Shadow (talk) 02:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Animated Shows

message: Without wanting to open a can of worms, would Columbo be a contender for this spot? It has a longer timespan (25 years to Poirot's 20) and while it's had a very on and off record (including a hiatus of 11 years) so has Poirot, usually disappearing from the schedules for a couple of years at a time. This might also be a time to consider exactly what constitutes a "longest running TV show" --Daduzi talk 20:28, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Murder/mystery series

message: I was linked here from the Guiding Light wiki, only to find that General Hospital is listed as the longest-running soap opera. 68.183.232.193 (talk)TremorMilo (not logged in)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:10, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soap Opera 

message: I'm not sure what category it would fall under, but Tatort has been going since 1970, which is longer than both Poirot and Taggart. Hoyland54 (talk) 22:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tatort

message: Why is this not listed?? Its been going non-stop since 1960. "It is the longest running and most watched soap opera on British television. It was first broadcast on 9 December 1960" says the Wikipedia article. Cannot stand it myself. 
And it would be nice if the list was put in the order of the start dates or duration. Edit: I have now added it. 84.13.198.33 (talk) 09:45, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Coronation Street]] 

message: This Basque language programme maybe the longest running, but despite its name, the Basque country doesn't constitute an independant nation as yet. It should be labelled as a Spanish programme.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayjase (talk • contribs) 14:51, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goenkale 

message: Neighbours is a soap Opera, and is beaten in duration by "guiding light", so I have removed it. Deathlibrarian (talk) 03:41, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighbours  

message: Sewing with Nancy has been on PBS since 1982  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.174.242 (talk) 23:22, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sewing Show 

message: Uh, The Real World has been on since the 90s, so how can a show from 2004 be the longest running reality series? 71.59.181.111 (talk) 07:15, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Longest Running Reality Show

message: What is the criteria for this list? It seems like it is going by number of episodes. Otherwise, I can't think of a reason why a reality show from 2004 should be on the list. I would prefer if it was sorted by duration and then episodes. Anyway, it should be noted in the lead. --Maitch (talk) 13:07, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criteria 

message: Why isn't "The Simpsons" listed?  They have been running longer than the original "Law and Order."  Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 07:14, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The Simpsons is beaten in every category you can think of. Animation goes to Sazae-san (42 years), comedy to Radio Rochela (50 years), and sitcom to Last of the Summer Wine (37 years). Law and Order is listed because it is a legal drama and the longest running of its genre. --Maitch (talk) 07:59, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Simpsons 

message: CBS Evening News Has been on the air since 1948, so shouldn't it be the longest running newscast? Viewerofhistory (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  CBS Evening News, longest running news cast? 

message: I stuffed up somewhere and don't know how to change it, but Bewitched is the longest running FANTASY television, Power Rangers is science fiction--124.187.32.97 (talk) 04:02, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running Fantasy television show 

message: Is there a reason It's Academic isn't the longest running Quiz Show? It's been running (continuously I might add) since 1961, which is longer than University Challenge, which started in 1962 and didn't run from 1987-94.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jfc12 (talk • contribs) 06:12, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quiz Show 

message: Subject to other views and comments here, I've removed the Four Corners entry from this list. It's categorised as being a "documentary" series, which I see as having little difference from a "current affairs" programme, a category already cited on this list. My reasons are these:
:(i) Four Corners is described on its own Wikipedia page as a "current affairs" programme, and on its official Australian Broadcasting Corporation website as "investigative journalism"http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/, which is "current affairs" by definition. The list of themes covered by the Australian show demonstrate its focus on modern topical issues - again, the definition of "current affairs".
:(ii) The same Wikipedia page claims that Four Corners is based on Panorama, the show presently occupying the "current affairs" slot (though there's no citation for this, so I'm willing to be convinced otherwise).
That said, I've removed it pending further debate. Greg (talk) 16:50, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: a new category: "nature and history documentary", to separate it from the other types of current affairs documentary 87.129.27.183 (talk) 09:49, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current affairs vs. documentary 

message: The longest running sitcom is a romanian sitcom called Trasnitii (Crazies) with 1,003+ episodes as of September 12, 2012. The show is running from December 22, 2003-present. I'm requesting that the creator of this page to change the category.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.137.176.129 (talk) 15:21, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sitcom 

message: I noticed there is an entry for "Song Contest", for an Italian program, that goes back to 1951... Sanremo Music Festival The page for it says it goes back to 1955. In any case, this is longer than Eurovision, which it is longer than so it looks like it edges out Eurovision for the Song Contest category. Apparently Eurovision got the idea for the song contest from Sanremo.Deathlibrarian (talk) 12:33, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song Contest 

message: This appears to be a spurious/loose genre definition, not used by Wikipedia, and the program that is nominated for it, CID (Indian) is listed as an example of Police procedural. CID is not the longest running Police procedural, as such I am removing it, and replacing the genre with the term used by Wikipedia. Deathlibrarian (talk) 15:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criminal Investigation 

message: This is a song contest, where local singers sing to win a contest, in a game show type context. Its listed as a Music show, but its basically a talent/song contestDeathlibrarian (talk) 12:39, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  NHK Nodo Jiman 

message: Where is the source list for this article? While I expect it is mainly accurate, most of the information in this seems to be unsourced. The sources that are used are concerned with a particular show and are mostly in a foreign language or are broken links or both. So where does all this information come from and why isn't the source document (if indeed there is one) at the bottom of the article? Regards --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 14:56, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's  a bit odd, but okay. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 23:14, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources? 

message: En Familia con Chabelo (1968 - present) is not the longest running Children's Show. There is at least two others.... Blue Peter (1958 - present).. Play school (1966 - present)Deathlibrarian (talk) 13:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Childrens 

message: Pro wrestling is a genre unto itself and ought to be recognized as such.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.164.18.250 (talk) 03:46, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Professional wrestling 

message: The Children in Need telethons as we now know them, and the Children in Need brand, started in 1980, so I don't believe the BBC children's appeals from 1955 to 1979 are the same show. It's one show per year as well, not countless. I've already changed that to 60, which is one episode per year from 1955 to 2014, which should be an uncontested edit. However, I think that we should be starting from 1980, in which case the actual number of episodes is 35. It would still be the longest running British charity show, as Comic Relief would be second and that started later. Would it still be the world's longest running charity show? Digifiend (talk) 18:44, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children in Need 

message: The last two column, "Duration" and "No. of episodes",  do not sort in any useful way right now. "Duration" should be sorted by the length of duration, not the name of TV channel. "No. of episodes" should be sorted by numbers, but the numbers are treated as text. --Quest for Truth (talk) 16:42, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  sort key of the sort table 

message: The information given would indicate 63 episodes, but for some reason it lists "88 ceremonies", which is misleading.  The page is not a history of the Academy Awards, or any other show, it simply is supposed to state how m any episodes said show has been running for on television.  This should be fixed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.13.138.185 (talk) 21:45, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Academy Award Show Incorrect 

message: How is that the longest running home improvement show, starting in 1999? This Old House started around 1979! Dignan17 (talk) 01:33, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home improvement show 

message: I was wondering why "Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten" wasn't included in the list, as the series has been running for 24 years now with over 6,000 episodes to date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gute_Zeiten,_schlechte_Zeiten  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LiasionMitCaro (talk • contribs) 13:06, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest Running Sitcoms 

message: For this page to be meaningful, the genres need to be legitimate, and not made up. There is no page for the concept of "comedy reality" as a genre or category, so I'm removing this genre. I mean you can put comedy in front of anything and invent a genre "comedy western" "comedy animation" "comedy sc fi".Deathlibrarian (talk) 11:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comedy Reality as a Genre 

message: Much as I love De Grassi High!!! - these are not the same show, they are different shows, with different titles, in the same series - in the same away that Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek are different shows(different titles, made at different times with different actors), but in the same franchise. Deathlibrarian (talk) 08:50, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teen Show 

message: Both Guiding Light And Coronation Street Have Lasted 57 Years. They Should List Both Of Them.--81.158.6.168 (talk) 13:44, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest Running Soap Opera 

message: A Documentary show in Romania called "Teleenciclopedia" is running since 1965 - present, during communist regime it was our only "Discovery" like show. it is usually made out of 3-4 stories, ~15min duration each, from different areas: history, nature, science. https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleenciclopedia Pleas include it in the table
::The documentary show, "Four Corners" is older by four years, it's been running since 1961. Deathlibrarian (talk) 12:18, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentary show 

message: I don't understand why this is a separate category from "Sports Show".  What exactly constitutes a "Sports Relay"?
A google search for "Sports Relay" or "What is a Sports Relay" or even "Sports Relay Definition" just turns up results about relay races.  Maybe "Annual Sports Competition Broadcast"?  I'm just not clear on what the category is supposed to be. --Tokuiwaza (talk) 14:43, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes you're right - perhaps it should be sports broadcast or just outside broadcast? Basically, I didn't want to remove all the other sports programmes as they're programmes rather than coverage of a sporting event, but the Wimbledon coverage on the BBC is almost certainly the oldest television broadcast of any genre. The whole sports section is a little vague anyway - what's the difference between a sports show, sports variety and sports magazine programme? Bob talk 20:03, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the general rule we follow for the page is that the category here is it has to be a recognised category, with an article by Wikipedia recognising it. It can't just be a made up category that commentary or RS doesn't recognise. I think the phrase "Sports relay" means live sports Broadcast - the footage is relayed from the event to the station and broadcast. Deathlibrarian (talk) 03:18, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports relay 

message: What Is The Longest Running Deff Magazine, I Guess See Hear (1981-, UK, BBC Two)--89.145.244.77 (talk) 19:29, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deff Magazine 

message: Guiding light was the longest running show for many years, but was surpassed by Coronation street and recognised by the Guiness book of records as the longest running TV soap .
Guiding light was a radio soap before that, but this page covers TV shows, not radio soaps. Guiding light started as a TV soap first on June 30, 1952 and finished on the September 18th 2009 for a total of 57 years.
Coronation street started on 9 December 1960 and is still currently in production, so in 2021 has been running for 61 years. Deathlibrarian (talk) 03:10, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running TV Soap is Coronation street.  

message: There's really two shows here. "Top of the Pops" weekly show which was cancelled in 2006... "After a legendary 42-year run, Top of the Pops was devastatingly cancelled in 2006, but at least we’ve still got the Christmas special to look forward to" https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/top-of-the-pops-christmas-line-up-time/ and the "Top of the Pops Christmas Special", which is a special show that is shown once a year at Christmas, and is a review of the year in music. The reference here says that top of the Pops started in the in 1960s and is still going to today is incorrect. The original show was cancelled by the BBC in 2006. Deathlibrarian (talk) 03:14, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top of the Pops 

message: RTE (Ireland) have been broadcasting The Late Late Show weekly since 1962. Only The Tonight Show has been running longer. Any reason it's not on this list? 178.167.130.201 (talk) 22:36, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The longest running Talk show is "The Tonight Show"... which has been running since 1954, so it beats it by 8 years. Deathlibrarian (talk) 11:47, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running talk show? 

message: The list states that this is the longest running historical drama and lists a single contiguous period from 1958-present. I'm not familiar with the series myself, but according to the article it was a number of series which ran from 1958–1960, 1962–1963, 1966–1984, 1987, 1991–1997 and 2004–2006. Even if this was considered as a single series, it would only have a span of around 29 years not 63 years, and I'm not sure it can really be considered as a single program anyway. Kidburla (talk) 22:21, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zenigata Heiji 

message: Looking at the list of longest-running British television programmes, I noticed that The Southbank Show is the longest running art programme (43 years) & Watchdog is the longest running consumer programme (36 years).
There are no art programmes nor consumer programmes on this list.
I think these two programmes should be added above Supernatural (15 years), unless another country has longer running art or consumer programmes.
I don't know how to add them into the table.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.159.44.179 (talk) 01:32, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'll add these, consumer programmes Deathlibrarian (talk) 12:19, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing categories 

message: Number of years a show was produced and number of years a show is running is not the same thing.
1. Doctor who did not run for 44 years it had a break from 1989 to 2005.
2. Why isn't the Simpsons on the list?
3. Truly befuddled at why no American Soap Opera is on this list. 2600:1003:B120:EA92:1498:CEF4:8282:274D (talk) 16:16, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The longest running soap opera is British, not American ... it's Coronation Street, and it started in 1960. The Simpsons is beaten in both sitcom and animated categories by shows that are older. Deathlibrarian (talk) 12:15, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  List Integrity 

message: I personally have never watched it but Days of our Lives, at least according the Wikipedia page is 57 years old and still running. It is not on this list at all. Making it to the 21st spot on the list. Idk if there is a reason or not, I just wanted to bring it up just in case if there was a mistake. Kybrion (talk) 22:14, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  This isn't a total list of the Longest shows, its a list of the longest show for each category. Days is a soap Opera, and the longest soAp opera is Coronation street. - started in 1960, it is 63 years old. Deathlibrarian (talk) 03:50, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Days of Our Lives 

message: I’m confused by the statement “by category” does that mean it only lists the longest shows of each category despite having other shows that are longer than some of the series on this list right now. If not, then there are still multiple shows missing that are longer than many of the shows listed here on the list and, if so, why are there repeats (i.e. two “religious program” categories and a repeat on the “news show” category)? Kybrion (talk) 22:23, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The list displays the longest show for each of the categories...so yes I agree, logically, there should only be one for each. If there are two shows for one category, only the oldest is supposed to be on the list. There's no point to having multiple shows for each category. Deathlibrarian (talk) 09:59, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There were two agricultural shows from NZ and India claiming to be the oldest Agricultural Information show...this is incorrect, the oldest show is actually from Croatia - "Plodovi zemlje" which started in 1958...so I have removed the incorrect entries. Deathlibrarian (talk) 10:09, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

text:  I don't know why people have listed two shows for one category, the second one needs to come out. Obviously there can only be one longest show for each category. Deathlibrarian (talk) 03:47, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  By Category? 

message: Cops is the longest running Reality show - it started in March 1989. The listing here is for America's funniest home Videos, but it only aired in November 1989. Deathlibrarian (talk) 03:39, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reality show