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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It had a good run. That’s for sure. After 53 years on air, Sábado Gigante will celebrate its final episode Saturday with a “star-studded send-off” and a “giant” celebration. The ...

There were songs. There were silly hats. Confetti and El Chacal, even. But the man of the three-plus hours did not cry. Mario Kreutzberger, better known under his stage name Don Francisco, closed the ...

Barack Obama was among those saying goodbye to the Don Francisco-hosted Univision series, which is TV's longest-running variety show. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Sabado Gigante ...

After 53 years, Don Francisco will finally put down the mic. Univision says it will stop making the legendarily unpredictable variety show Sábado Gigante in September, ending a run that began in 1962 ...

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 ...

Don Francisco has endured plenty of put-downs in the past four decades -- many criticizing the surreal barrage of low-budget skits, lower- budget sets and gratuitous clusters of thong-wearing ...

NEW YORK — It had a good run. That’s for sure. After 53 years on air, Sábado Gigante will celebrate its final episode Saturday with a “star-studded send-off” and a “giant” celebration. The live, final ...