UHF
“A lot of TV stations have forgotten what "quality" means, but not Channel 62. They NEVER knew what it meant.”
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
Genres
Comedy
Studio
Cinecorp
Language
en
Status
Released
How UHF performed
Budget
$5.0M
Worldwide Gross
$6.2M
Gross Profit
$1.2M
Return
1.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$887K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
George Newman
'Weird Al' Yankovic
George Newman
R.J. Fletcher
Kevin McCarthy
R.J. Fletcher
Stanley Spadowski
Michael Richards
Stanley Spadowski
Bob
David Bowe
Bob
Harvey Bilchik
Stanley Brock
Harvey Bilchik
Philo
Anthony Geary
Philo
Raul Hernandez
Trinidad Silva
Raul Hernandez
Kuni
Gedde Watanabe
Kuni
Noodles MacIntosh
Billy Barty
Noodles MacIntosh
Richard Fletcher
John Paragon
Richard Fletcher
Pamela Finklestein
Fran Drescher
Pamela Finklestein
Esther Bilchik
Sue Ane Langdon
Esther Bilchik
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