Father of the Pride is an NBC television show that began broadcasting on August 31, 2004 and was only the second computer-generated TV series in prime-time network television (after UPN's Game Over). The show, which is produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg and his company, DreamWorks SKG revolves around a family of white lions , the patriarch of which stars in a Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas.
The show features the voice talent of John Goodman, Danielle Harris, Cheryl Hines, Carl Reiner, Orlando Jones, Julian Holloway and Dave Herman . The per-episode cost of the series is reportedly $1.6 million USD and each episode takes nine months to create.
The show was almost canceled long before its broadcast following the near death of Roy Horn in October 2003, but after his condition improved, both Siegfried and Roy urged NBC to continue production of the show. The show was promoted heavily during NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and garnered above average ratings for the network, but mostly a negative response from television critics who considered the show to be nothing more than a gimmick and a shill for other NBC and DreamWorks properties (two early episodes extensively featured The Today Show's Matt Lauer and another featured Donkey - voiced by Eddie Murphy - from the DreamWorks movie Shrek).
The show's ratings began to decline, and by November 2004 it was pulled from NBC's sweeps line-up. In early December 2004, the CEO of Dreamworks announced that that show was cancelled just a few months after it was initially aired.
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