This Is Your Life
Simon Cowell
TV Flash files “Simon Cowell” as a desk essential hour — This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC, season 44, episode 1, aired 2007-06-22, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S44E01: listed hour 497 of 497 in the This Is Your Life guide, the only listed hour of season 44. It aired 2007-06-22 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Aled Jones” (S43E25). No later hour is listed in this guide. Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Simon Cowell”. Simon Cowell closes this mega-pack: last titled life, the tribute ambush still working on a celebrity the 1950s format could not have imagined.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Simon Cowell sit in the This Is Your Life guide?
S44E01 is listed hour 497 of 497 — the only listed hour of season 44, season 44 episode 1.
When did This Is Your Life S44E01 air?
Simon Cowell aired 2007-06-22 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Edwards ambushing a guest into their own biography. The shock-and-tissues contract is the show; named celebrity nights are the heat.
In the series
Why this series still plays
This Is Your Life had Ralph Edwards ambush a guest with their entire biography, tissues mandatory. Invented the life-tribute ambush still used at reunions and award-show montages. Watch it now as live television that felt dangerous and sweet — genuine shock, occasional discomfort, and biography as a surprise party with cameras.
The guest does not know the night is about them until the night is already on the air. This Is Your Life, NBC 1952–1961 in the classic American television run, had Ralph Edwards ambush a subject with their entire biography, tissues mandatory. Invented the life-tribute ambush still used at reunions and award-show montages: genuine shock, occasional discomfort, biography as a surprise party with cameras. Based on Edwards's radio format; the U.K. imitated it widely. Live television that felt dangerous and sweet in…
Filed against
- Ralph Edwards as Host
Ralph Edwards ambushed guests with their entire biography on This Is Your Life — tissues mandatory, live television that felt dangerous and sweet — and turned wrong answers into stunts on Truth or Consequences. Life-tribute as reunion…